Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-09
Old Guflford.

Guilford, as part of the world has known
 for years, is not confined to farming, as some
 of it's manufactures have been known all over New England and part of New York State the great State which has such powerful l influence in deciding who shall be nominated for President-an immense State compared l with 'sZat leetle yellow spot on ze map" as a noted French diplomat designated Connecti- cut. The I. S. Spencer Sons establishment, one of the towns industries, was found too small not long ago and the enterprising
 brothers who form the concern-Messrs Christopher & G. B. Spencer-have doubled
 the size of their foundry, which looks almost
 big enough to hold the 10000 people at the
 late Chicago convention. The foundry is 200
 feet by 60. A new cupola was added with it,
 the old one not being large enough The
 new one holds from seven to eight tons. It
 was used Monday or Tuesday last for the first
 time. The firm make a multitude of cast
 ings. Their work is exclusively in gray iron.
 They make tons of parts for sewing machines I-make hundreds of grocers' scales and weights for the Fairbanks of Vermont, which
 latter are fitted up and completed at the es- tablishment also spring scales, which are so
 much in use by housekeepers. They make
 also tons of parts for locks every year, and other things too numerous to mention. This 1 business was started originally between thirty
 and forty years ago in Clinton, and after some time was removed to Guilford. Ploughs and plough castings were made at first. One
 other kind of work done by the concern is the making of gas and oil stoves, l which save the housekeepers of the present age much labor. They make 1 many of the kind invented by T. B. Car penter, Esq, formerly long on Orange street l in this city, but for some time past resident
 of Foxboro', Mass. The Spencers employ
 about seventy men, and run all the time ex-
 cept nights, Sundays and high holidays, and
 have the good wishes of the town, being popular and able men. Mir. G. B. Spencer
 was member of the Legislature of 1874, and has been warden of the borough
 Another industry in Guilford is one of late l origin It is the manufacture of buttons for ! mems garments from vegetable ivory It has been going only three years and is prosper | ous concern, keeping 40 to 50 hands, a large
 number of whom are young ladies, busy all
 the year round, except Sunday, ten hours | per day. The pay roll amounts to $1, 800 per month. The buttons pass through thirty | two distinct operations. The process of
 manufacturing them is an interesting sight,
 for which we were indebted to MT. H. E. l Norton, the enterprising and wide awake
 manager. He is secretary and treasurer of I the company, the name of which is s'The | Guilford Enterprise Company" MT. Chris | topher Spencer, of the Spencer Sons estab- ishment, is the president of the company They make 3O,0OO buttons a day, and they l are of many kinds and designs, and new l styles constantly devised.
 Not least among the active industries in the town is the raising and canning of toma- l toes. The gentlemen comprising the Gull ford Canning Company, John B. Hubbard | James A. Dudley and Edward Griswold, have
 recently commenced the building of new and commodious factory, situated on land of John E. Hubbard, the main building being 65x30 feet, two stories high, with an l., | which is the peeling room, 56x3O of one l story another building, one story, 121 feet long, and used for bath and engine room, the | whole to be furnished with new and com | plete machinery. The enterprising gentle
 men who are pushing forward this enter 1 prise expect to have model establishment | It IS due the gentlemen above named to say l that whereas other parties than themselves | in times past have made miserable fail | ures in this business there yet the ore sent proprietors have always been eminently suc- | cessful. Their product in 1879 was of the | highest order as to quality. We also learn
 that they have engaged all their old help, and 1 secured their tin at the recent great decline
 This company have engaged seventy-five ! acres of the luscious vegetable, calculated 1 enough to produce 40, 900 dozen cans of the 1 article, and have already commenced con- I tracting for sale of the same, one firm | Messrs. J. D. Dewen & Co.,, of New Haven l having purchased ten thousand dozen. Said
 firm we learn have the exclusive agency for | New Haven and vicinity.
 Guilford is famous as all are aware, for its 1 ancient stone house, ''built in 1889 by Rev
 Henry Whitfield, of the Church of England" Ehgravings of the old manse, as it was, are
 to be seen in many dwellings, prized memen-
 toes. Not long ago it was remodelled and en
 larged but the massive old chimney on the l outside looks as if it hadn't been changed a whit except by time since the days
 when the dusky warriors of the forest were
 numerous in the vicinity. The old house
 stands in the midst of "a ten acre lot" and
 @ good ways back from the road, giving it
 quite a manor house appearance and fine situation. large farm is connected with it,
 which the owner of the premises, lady re- siding out of the State, has operated from year to year on shares. Next door is the residence of one of Connecticut's well known men, Judge Lynde Harrison
 Among the towns attractions are the fine grounds and deer park of Congressman Sim con B. Chittenden, of Brooklyn, N Y, whose love for the o1d bo,oa +b,,s Cbo1,s 4 self. Our readers are doubtless familiar, many of them, with these grounds, have seen the pretty lawns in their ample, undula- ting, grassy park, wire fence of pretty style and device enclosing the dear creatures from the highway. Near by on the park is fan ciful and massive stone tower, on top of which the windmill haunts itself about and makes itself useful in pumping water. Across the highway down below is the trout pond, etc., and further down is a broad expanse of grassland and meadow. The summer resi- dence of Mir. Chittenden is at the corner just above.
 Here in Guilford is the beloved Dr. Ben nett of the Episcopal church. Many of his ! years have been spent in his holy calling in this town. Here also labor Rev. Mr. Banks | and Rev. MT. Taylor. The former is away taking vacation in Europe. The latter is a i quite recent graduate of Yale Theological Sem | mary, of which also MT. Banks is an alumnus. ]
 Guilford is, of course, having it's census | taken. At the last census this quiet but sub | stantial old toWn numbered about 2, 800 in I hab1tants, and old residents well acquainted | with the towns affairs say they shall not be | surprised if the present number is found to | be about 5000. There have been between | thirty and forty new houses erected in the | town in the last five years. Being largely | farming population, the growth is slow, compared with the cities. The stores about | the beautiful square show that their pro- prietors alive to the wants of the | people and considerable business is done Away off in the distance from the shore of | the Sound, looking scarce two miles away in some states of the atmosphere, lies Faulk- ner's Island, and across portion of the in tervening waters are the upper edges of the seines, visible signs of the menhaden indus try which is prosecuted every season. The catch thus far this season of the peripatetic white fish or menhaden has been unusual
 As we passed along one of the main streets opposite the Green, we saw seated near their front windows in their houses and reading newspapers, probably the news from Chicago,