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ing ;  Isaac  M.  Ashton,  frats ;  Ellmaker,  Dunn  &  Co.,  forwarding 
house,  corner  of  Decatur  Street,  the  old  building  still  standing  with 
the  old-time  hoist  projecting  from  the  top  of  the  second  story  into 
Decatur  Street.  Across  from  Decatur  was  J.  Ridgway  &  Son, 
clothing  ;  Reeves  &  Whitaker,  nail  manufacturers ;  Meredith  Hen- 
derson &  Co.,  drugs ;  Robert  Steen  &  Co.,  grocers ;  Red  Lion  Tav- 
ern, W.  M.  Shewell,  shoes;  A.  Elmes,  hats,  and  Daniel  Deal  &  Co., 
on  the  corner  of  Sixth  Street. 
Among  others  on  the  north  side  of  Market  Street  in  the  same 
block  were  R.  M.  Reeve,  drugs;  Wm.  Carman,  grocer;  Mulford  & 
Alter,  grocers;  J.  B.  Rowand,  patent  medicines;  R.  P.  DeSilver, 
books;  Wm.  Wayne,  hardware;  Peter  Wright  &  Son,  china;  Saml. 
Bispham,  grocer  and  forwarding  ;  Wm.  Musser,  hides,  oil  and  leather; 
Geo.  Steinmetz,  brushes,  and  Watson  &  Rennels,  confectionery. 
Around  the  corner  of  Market,  on  the  east  side  of  Seventh,  there 
stood,  until  a  few  years  ago,  an  old  grayish-brown  painted  brick 
house,  with  a  peaked  roof  and  garret  over  the  third  story.  John 
Stock  built  the  house  in  1788.  He  had  been  brought  from  Ger- 
many as  a  lad  about  1765  by  Christopher  Marshall,  with  whom  he 
served  a  nine  years'  apprenticeship  in  consideration  of  the  cost  of 
his  passage  to  this  country.  In  1796  Mr.  Stock  put  up  another 
building  at  the  rear,  on  Decatur  Street,  then  known  as  Hiltzheim- 
er's  Alley,  which  he  used  as  a  paint  shop,  the  store  on  Seventh 
Street  being  devoted  to  his  drug  trade. 
In  1 8 14  Geo.  Gardom,  then  a  lad,  entered  the  employ  of  Mr. 
Stock,  and  in  a  conversation  a  few  years  ago  the  old  man  told  how 
his  employer  often  referred  to  the  service  with  Mr.  Marshall,  and 
thought  that  he  had  well  earned  the  £18  cost  of  his  passage  to 
America,  and  although  his  master  had  clothed  him  well  he  never 
sent  him  to  school,  which  he  regretted  as  an  unnecessary  depriva- 
tion, so  Gardom,  as  a  joke,  wrote  these  lines  and  laid  them  on  Mr. 
Stock's  desk : 
Nine  years  I  served 
For  £18  and  better  ; 
The  clothes  I  got  were  good, 
But  of  learning  not  a  letter." 
Mr.  Stock  died  in  1823,  and  Geo.  Gardom  bought  the  building, 
which  he  occupied  as  a  drug  and  paint  shop  until  he  died. 
Thus  looking  backward  we  not  only  tell  a  tale  of  passing  interest, 
