Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-28
SourusI sriS Gaurier.
Monday Morning, Nov. 2s. 1881.
Duties of the Quinnipiac Wards.


 Abstract of . Thanksgiving Day Dis
 course Delivered by Rev. Burtiett Hart,
 Pastor of the First Church, Fair Haven.
 Proverbs u:1f-"By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted but it is oyerthrown by the month of the wicked" the life of great city are constantly tend ing to throw the worst clements into its sub urbs and it's outlying districts. As the dross of forges and factories, the refuse of null tiform business, the debris from all occupa- tions is carted and dumped just outside of the inhabited area, forming unsightly depos- its, so the bad materials of the body polite are apt to find refuge on the border of the incorporated territory.
 The stringency of police supervision is supposed to be somewhat relaxed as the dis tance from the central authority is increased. The indictments of order and refinement are thought to diminish as society is pushed toward the rudeness of unorganized life. Rough men take advantage of the situation to open asylums of vice, and the various temptations upon virtue and youth are organ ized for their worst assaults. It is often the case that a city will have fringe of low morality on it's outskirts.
 It behooves those, therefore, whose fortune it is to belong to the annex or to the outmost wards of an advancing city to be on guard, that no danger shall come to them, to their household, to their youth in consequence of their position, that they shall not become | outside barbarians by any want of vigilance, l by any lack of efficiency in the duties and responsibilities of citizenship.
 We'll would it be if the outposts of all mu- ] nicipalities were held with the unslumbering watchfulness of garrisoned frontier fortresses | in time of war and danger.
 I have thought that on this first occasion of common assembling. in worship of the | Christian churches of the Eleventh, Twelfth | and Fourteenth wards since the annexation of the territory on which they stand to New Haven; so completing the absorption of what was once the village of Fair Haven into the municipality, it might be well for us, as rep resenting the most important part of the population in character and intelligence, and | wealth and social standing, to consider some of the duties which affect our common vel fare as holding the outlying relation to the l whole city. It will be hard for us in this generation having the traditions and associ- | ations of separate village life to realize that we are merged in our civic affairs into the | larger interests of the city. But as to our moral affairs we have no occasion to remit our responsibilities nay, we have greater occasion, both by reason of our location, | and for bringing honor to the city to which we now belong, as well as that we may do | justice to the trust which we have received from our fathers, to maintain good order and refined manners, and all the amenities and adjuncts of cultivated and religious society. That the district which includes these wards is 'beautifu1 for situation" goes with out saying We have but to look around us to be convinced of that. When the first | ship that ever cast anchor in our waters, "guided by Gods own hand," as they said, | who looked from its deck, plunged it's way l into this harbor, so beautiful was the sight to the captain and to all the passengers that | they called it the 'sFayre Haven;" and such it l has been until now. Mir. Blakeslee, an Eng | fish instructor of drawing and painting in Yale College forty years ago, who was fami- liar with foreign scenery, used to say that | nOWQ6r6 cOulu Lu0r0 D0 1Ouuu hOE0 esque views in landscape than from these very heights. One of the oldest and most honored of the citizens of New Haven tells me that he is accustomed to bring his foreign guests into these wards that they may gel their finest impressions of the city. The plain, with its accessible sites for at tractive homes, with it's avenues looking forth upon rock and meadow in one direc tion, and upon the waters of river and har- bor in another direction the hills crowned with forests and commanding broad outlookt upon scenery of most varied character and charm, combine to make this old Fair HaveI part of the city superior to any other part o1 it in natural picturesqueness and the en chantment of magic landscape. Milton might have stood on these heights when he wrote in LAllegro:
 Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures,
 Whilst the landscape mind it measures;
 Russet lawns and fallows gray,
 Where the nibbling hocBs do stray; Mountains, whose barren breast
 The lab'ring clouds do often rest;
 Meadows trim with daisies pied,
 Shallow brooks and rivers wide.
 Or if thesearlier season lead,
 1 Then the taln'd haycock in the mead.
 Powered cities please us then.
 And inc busy hum of men,"
 We ought by common endeavor, to per feet these natural advantages until this area by the improvements that shall be made shall become place of marvellous attractive