DIVISION TWO — COLONIAL. II 5 



work. The old man called Mr. Shorb in from the winery above the house 

 for some explanation, and they took the buggy and drove in haste up to 

 where the work was going on. Seeing the bungle of it at once, the old man 

 was deeply vexed, and reproached Bristol for making such a blunder. 

 Bristol very calmly replied that he was following the stakes just as they had 

 been set and marked by the engineer. Mr. Shorb thought this could not be 

 so. Mr. Bristol replied, "Well, here are the stakes; I have saved them 

 from being covered up or broken ; You can see for yourselves." Mr. Wilson 

 looked at them sharply a few seconds and then burst out — " Well, I never 

 did depend on any of these scientific fellows but what I got fooled. Here, 

 Bristol, bring your old crooked level-stick and make this thing right." 



And Bristol with his "old crooked level-stick" made the line right. 

 The trouble with the engineer was that he had drank wine freely and it made 

 him see crooked. 



The first house on the I,ake Vineyard side was a rough board cottage 

 built by ly. D. Hollingsworth, on one of his 10 acre lots, early in 1876. 

 It was afterward improved and a neat front added — and it still stands in the 

 same place, being the third house on west side of Marengo Avenue south of 

 Kansas street. 



The lots selected by the original Hollingsworth syndicate have all be- 

 come points of historic interest. Mr. lyCgge chose his twenty acres on the 

 south side of Walnut street from Fair Oaks to Marengo Avenues ; and on it 

 are located the Baptist church, the Crown Villa Hotel, the Public lyibrary, 

 and his home place where he still resides. 



Col. Banbury selected for his father-in-law. Rev. S. Dunton, the ten 

 acres on north side of Walnut street and east of Fair Oaks. During the 

 "boom " days (1885 to 1888), Chestnut street and Raymond Avenue were 

 opened through it ; and the Universalist church, besides the East Hall and 

 West Hall of Throop Polytechnic Institute are now located on the original 

 Dunton purchase. 



Mr. Hollingsworth 's son, Henry, had chosen ten acres south of Wal- 

 nut and east of Marengo (which was included in his father's fifty), and 

 the Wilson High School and Lincoln School are both now on this land. 



ly. D. Hollingsworth took three lo-acre lots on north side of Colorado 

 street, from Fair Oaks Avenue eastward, which reached a little beyond 

 Worcester Avenue, and built his own home on the east lot, just about where 

 the Presbyterian church now stands. He also proposed to put up a build- 

 ing, and open a store and get a postofhce located in it, at the corner of 

 Colorado street and Marengo Avenue, because he thought that elevated site 

 would be the finest point for the colony village or business center. But the 

 " west siders," as the Orange Grove people were then called, pulled so hard 

 for a location at least on the street line between the two settlements that he 

 yielded the point, and built his store near the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue 



