[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] i Joseph Hudson (1868-82) and A. D. Dunbar. The location of the office has been changed very fre-quently and is now at the corner of South and Di-vision Streets. Introduction of the Telegraph, the Rail-l road and Gas. — In 1848 consent was given by the village authorities for the erection of telegraph poles in the village, " provided the company skinned the j bark from the poles and painted them." On Saturday, September 15, 1849, the first locomo-tive ran to Peekskill, over the Hudson River Railroad. " It came up from Sing Sing," says the PeeisMll; Republican, " a distance of 12 miles, in 18 minutes and a half — faster than we should desire to ride over a new track for the first time." July 18, 1855, an agreement was made with a gas company to lay pipes through the streets, on the con-dition, however, that the streets should be lighted be-fore December 1, 1866. The Newspapers of Peekskill. — The Westches-ter and Putnam Sentinel, in its salutatory given April ii. — 37 ANDT. 409 22, 1830, refers to the fact that several journals had been started previously in Peekskill, which bad ex-pired by reason of the lack of public support, and expresses the hope that it may meet a different fate. One of these unfortunate papers, and doubtless the first of them, was the Westchester and Putnam Gazette, of which nothing is known save that it was started on Saturday, January 6, 1816, was nineteen by twelve inches in size, was edited by R.