. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . n, shad-bellied coat, so that Addison, had heseen the Judge walking arm in arm with Sir Roger deCoverley, would have noticed nothing strange or incon-gruous in the spectacle. Sitting in the church pewwhich he occupied, just in front of my fathers, it wasalways a temptation, and one hard for me to resist, topull the queue with the neatly tied silken bow at itsextreme end. James Kelly, of Wilkinsburgh, was thelast of the race of queue-wearers about Pittsburgh, In my boyhood, besidesthe redoubt built by Colo-nel Bouquet in 1764,
. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . n, shad-bellied coat, so that Addison, had heseen the Judge walking arm in arm with Sir Roger deCoverley, would have noticed nothing strange or incon-gruous in the spectacle. Sitting in the church pewwhich he occupied, just in front of my fathers, it wasalways a temptation, and one hard for me to resist, topull the queue with the neatly tied silken bow at itsextreme end. James Kelly, of Wilkinsburgh, was thelast of the race of queue-wearers about Pittsburgh, In my boyhood, besidesthe redoubt built by Colo-nel Bouquet in 1764, therewas yet another relic ofcolonial days standing,—the magazine of Fort Pitt,I have somewhere seen thestatement that it was torndown when the Pennsylva-nia Railroad Company wasabout to erect the Duquesnefreight depot; this, however,is a mistake, as it was de-stroyed long prior to thattime; and I remember see-ing the stone of which it was constructed used forthe rear wall of a stable belonging to Mortons tavern,which was close to the site of the magazine. When. THE REDOUBT. 82 Pittsburgli Escapes Being the British Capital. the Duquesne depot was about to be erected, in exca-vating for it there were found logs about thirty feetin length and sixteen or more inches square, handsomelyhewn, and joined at their ends with wooden pins. Manypersons examined them, but no one was able to tell any-thing as to their purpose or by whom they had beenowned. Even Mr. Craig, born near the spot,—in thelittle redoubt, it has been said,—was puzzled and whollyunable to satisfy the many inquiries on these ,they were part of an underground magazine,or other work, either of Fort Duquesne or Fort Pitt. Isecured one of the wooden pins and have it yet, thoughpossibly it should be among the relics in the old redoubtwhich the Daughters have in charge. This reference to colonial times is a reminder of anaddress recently delivered by the ablest English states-man of the present day,—L
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