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A Doomed 
A Farm Valley That 
L ast week I attended a Farm Bu¬ 
reau community meeting at Gilboa, 
in my own county of Schoharie. The 
little town is in the valley of the Scho¬ 
harie River, on the western slope of 
the Catskill Mountains. The upper 
reaches of the valley lie remote from 
the rail, and it 
is preeminently a 
region where old 
manners and by¬ 
gone customs lin¬ 
ger long. Some- 
one has well 
called it “The 
Sleepy Hollow of 
New York.” I 
shall never for¬ 
get the first time 
I saw it, for it 
was under such 
pleasant, not to 
say romantic, cir¬ 
cumstances. It is 
some 40’ miles 
from my home by 
J. VAN WAGENEN, JR. the usual driving 
route. It was 22 
years ago last June, during weather 
worthy of that glorious month, that I 
pilgrimaged there in a strange and 
now extinct sort of vehicle known as 
a basket phaeton. Said vehicle was 
deemed quite a stylish equipage when 
it was purchased in the early 80s. The 
propelling power was a fat, lazy, short¬ 
legged black pony bearing the appro¬ 
priate name of Topsey. The phaeton 
and the pony grew old together. We 
drove them for 20 years and more, until 
one unhappy morning Topsey was 
found in the stable with a broken leg, 
and thus went prematurely out of the 
world. But she was some pony in her 
time. When newly overhauled and put 
into high gear, she was capable of say 
five miles an hour for not too long a 
stretch, but half of this was her regu¬ 
lar running schedule. She never back¬ 
fired, or knocked, or had tire trouble. 
Her motto was safety first, and she 
broke no speed laws or traffic regu¬ 
lations. 
The Human Birdnest 
Behind her in the low, sweet chariot 
which she drew, was somehow stowed 
my wife and two small babies and my¬ 
self, together with the absolutely neces¬ 
sary impedimentia of travel. To the 
observing wayfarer, as we slowly drift¬ 
ed up the valley, it must have suggest¬ 
ed, in the phrase of Corra Harris, a 
sort of itinerant “human birdnest,” 
so to speak. 
We were all of us more than 22 years 
younger than we are to-day. I have 
been up and down the valley many 
times since, but never was the sky so 
blue and the grass so green and the 
wooded mountains so altogether lovely 
as on that halcyon journey in the 
golden month of June. I cannot be 
sure as to our hourly mileage, but it 
was very small. 
We slowly meandered up the lovely val¬ 
ley, by leisurely roads, under old trees, 
past sleepy farmsteads, having fre¬ 
quently by our side the bright gleam of 
the river, having often in our ears the 
music of its slipping waters. I love to 
remember how we passed through the 
rich, broad acres of Vrooman’s Land, 
overshadowed by the towering, rocky 
face of Vrooman’s Nose. Romance and 
history lie thick hereabouts, for surely 
no part of our State suffered more piti¬ 
fully during the dark and bloody days 
of the Indian troubles and the Revolu¬ 
tionary War. Here dwelt the men who 
in those days sent to the Committee of 
Public Safety at Albany this simple, 
eloquent, pitious appeal; “The great¬ 
est harvest in the memory of man lies 
rotting on the ground, and no man dare 
go into the fields to gather it.” 
Old Landmarks Along the Way 
We negotiated the “tow-path” where 
the road, then much narrower than 
now, is carried on a shelf, blasted out 
of the mountain-side with the river 
directly beneath, while just beyond is 
Bouck’s Island, ancestral home and 
seat of John Christopher Bouck, the 
only genuine, honest-to-goodness Farm¬ 
er-Governor our State ever knew. Last 
summer I went to see the old house 
where he and his fathers dwelt, but 
the glory has departed, and the hand of 
Countryside 
Will Soon Be a Lake 
neglect and decay is heavy on the big 
old farmhouse under the old trees. 
At Breakabeen we passed the foun- 
• dry and machine shop with the great 
overshot water-wheel beside it, that 
day half hidden in a white smother of 
foam as the waters of the Keyser Kill 
spouted and dashed over it, but the 
shop is silent, and the wheel has not 
turned for many years. 
At Blenheim we drove through the 
resounding tunnel of the longest single¬ 
span wooden bridge in the world—198 
feet between abutments—built 80 years 
ago by country carpenters who never 
saw a blue-print or heard of stress or 
’ shear, and having for tools chiefly the 
saw and broad-ax and adz and auger. 
Surely there were cunning workmen 
in that time. 
So, in due course, we came to Gilboa 
and dined at the inn, but I cannot re¬ 
member if “Pop” Peters was then the 
landlord, as he was for many years 
thereafter. 
I might gossip further about this 
pleasant pilgrimage, but I must not 
dream. 
Recollections of the Old Village 
So last week I came again to Gilboa. 
The village is old. Long ago it had a 
tannery, as did all the villages in the 
valley, but it had a cotton factory also. 
One day—I think it was in 1869—it 
began to rain summer showers up creek 
in the Catskills, and the old Schoharie 
rose up and went on a rampage. An 
old man used to tell me how he saw the 
cotton factory and the cotton bales and 
a wagon loaded with finished cotton 
cloth go bobbing down the turbid flood 
together. That disaster finished the 
industry. By the way, that same flood 
undermined the bank of the creek and 
exposed what is said to be a most re¬ 
markable fossil forest, which is just at 
this time being worked over by the 
American Museum of Natural History 
in New York. 
Then, about 1890, a fire swept away 
a good part of the town, and for a day 
gave them a place in the Associated 
Press news. The rebuilding was prompt 
and complete. Ten years ago or so the 
village had another flutter, when the 
Delaware and Eastern Railroad came 
pushing over the hill from Grand 
Gorge. I was at a Farmers’ Institute 
the7’e that fall, when we could hardly 
keep audience enough to do business 
because everybody wanted to go down 
and watch them get the steam shovel 
across the creek and up the steep bank 
into the town. There were big cuts 
and fills and substantial concrete 
bridges completed and high tressels 
against the hillside above the village. 
Gilboa needed little imagination to see 
the long coal trains rumble past, for 
the new road was ambitiously conceived 
as’ a shorter cut-off to the anthracite 
regions. The little town fairly buzzed 
with activity and anticipation, and 
then, without warning, the construction 
gangs went home one night and they 
never came back. So Gilboa was left 
with only the memory of great expec¬ 
tations and a right of way. 
Doomed to a Watery Gi’ave 
But at last the village is put perma¬ 
nently on, or, rather off, the map. New 
York City, as a great concern should, 
looks far into the future, and plans for 
years to be. Her engineers say that it 
is, relatively speaking, only a short 
time until she will outgrow her present 
water supply. So they pitched upon 
the upper reaches of the Schoharie, and 
for years have been measuring the 
daily flow of the river and making deep 
borings to ascertain the character and 
depth of the bed-rock foundation. It 
was a tremendous task that was begun, 
involving the building of a giant dam 
that will convert a one-time fertile val¬ 
ley into a mountain lake extending for 
six miles, and then the diverting of the 
waters of the river to another water¬ 
shed through a tunnel more than six¬ 
teen miles long. 
So to-day the sleepy village has be¬ 
come a roaring construction camp. Just 
where was formerly the lower end of 
the long village street, the dam, a great 
structure of concrete faced (“ve¬ 
neered,” as the engineers would say) 
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