Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1911 — CURIOUS MAKE-UP OF FENCES [ARTICLE]

CURIOUS MAKE-UP OF FENCES

Unique and Interesting Collections Noted in a Tour Throughout the Country.

The present age seems to be one wherein persons vie with one another to devise curious work. One might make a unique and interesting collet tion by gathering views of freaks Ih fence building, in which nothing should be so commonplace’ as a “worm” fence. Not many miles from New Bedford, in Massachusetts, there stands a solid fence, with a curiously curved uppei line, and here and there a numbej painted upon It In white. On examination it proves to be built of the pew doors from a dismantled church. In Maine a man attached to a lifesaving station at Small Point amassed a sufficient number of swords of the swordfish to build h picket fence 40 feet in length. In an old town of New Hampshire there is a house the yard of which la inclosed with a fence constructed of the pew doors of the old Brattle street church of Boston. This fence once felt the jar of the solid cannon ball that struck the church full in the face in the revolutionary days. Some years ago the government Authorities at Washington condemned a large number of flagpoles in use on the department buildings at the capital and on the federal buildings elsewhere. These were purchased by a contractor, who turned them into pickets for a fence to surround his country place near Washington. Oft these poles, which were sawed into the proper length for fencing purposes, may be read many interesting inscriptions placed thereon by various officials of the government and by tourists who had climbed to the top of the buildings which they once graced.