Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-04

and the Breadth and Grandeur of the Arch on the Latter-CurrGnt and RGsp. berry Bushes in the Cr6tches Of Films CrOtches of Elms as Flower yasea-The E. c. Heratck Memorial Oak tke | College Campus-The Browning Charm of the Art Building-A Suggestion.
 The name "City of Films" it is said was l first bestowed upon New Haven by widow 1 lady who half a century since lived with 8 l family of young children in white house which stood on Temple street. about where ! BOW stands the chapel of the North church,
 and where the writer in his childhood days was frequent visitor. The maiden name of this lady was Louisa Caroline Huggins.
 She was town born (1799) and at the time of her marriage (1S19) to the Rev. Cornelius TuthiH wRs called ''the belle of New Haven D Our memory of her is that of tall lady of 1 fine figure, sparkling black eyes, unusual Vi vacity of manner and speech and absorbed in literary work. With 8 family of remark ably bright children dependent upon her, she was stimulated to enter upon a literary ca I reer, and in the course of a life prolonged
 to eighty years became the authoress of over ] thirty different works. These were princi- pally books for the young, some of which ran through many editions. Several of her stories were reprinted in England. The lat ter part of her life was passed in Boston. She lies buried in the Grove street cemetery. An extended notice of her will be found in the genealogy of the Futile family (now printing) by George F. Futile, of our city, from which the main fact of this notice is derived.
 We have counted the elms in certain of our localities, measured the largest and in- vestigated somewhat their history. They have given us so much pleasure that we were prompted to this from @ sense of gratitude. The spirits that gently sway their branches we trust will give us due credit therefor and kindly welcome our future visits to their
 realms, as we expect to get more and better acquainted. On the lower Green are eighty
 nine elms, including the easternmost row on
 Temple street and the outer rows on the
 three other sides Oa HiIlhouse avenue are
 sixty elms. The arch of Temple street from
 Chapel to Grove street is formed by eighty
 elms, thence to Trumbull street, twenty six
 elms; in all 1O6. The inner arch on the
 College campus is made by twenty-five elns.
 We're it as long as the Temple street arch it
 would greatly surpass 1t In grandeur. The
 reason for this is that, while the elms on
 Temple street are but about forty feet apart,
 those on the campus are about sixty feet.
 Having thus ample room for lateral spread,
 each tree has obtained an individual develop
 nlent to the right and the left, and the
 length of the limbs and the grandeur of their
 forms render the view surprisingly impress
 siVe. Were it mile long, we venture to
 say, it would form the grandest arch of trees
 on the globe. This credit probably is now
 held by Temple street. In the rear of the
 College buildings are seventeen elms in line,
 magnificent trees with great lateral spread.
 In the crotch of one is thrifty currant bush
 and on this very day (July 14, 1883) we saw
 a currant bush in the crotch of an elm in
 front of the residence of pr. Robert Ives on
 Temple street bearing ripe entrants Three
 years since a raspberry bush was in the
 crotch of an elm in front of the residence of
 MT. Joseph Short beyond the railroad bridge
 on the same street. These bushes found
 root in the dust blown by the vlcd which
 had settled there.
 Why can't somebody from this fake hint,
 slightly enclose the elm crotches in front of
 their homes so as to hold a quantity of good
 soil and so convert their trees into flower
 vases? The flowers would be safe from
 pluoking hands, but the soil there in quanti-
 ties might not be exactly healthy for the
 trees. Eccentricities in the way of adorn- ment are sometimes very pleasing. We smile when we see tho ears of 8 kitten pierced and adorned with gay ribbons. Our pleasure arises from two sources, one the reflection that the animal is made happy by being somebody g get, and second it's entire innocence of any knowledge of it's looks, preserving as it does a staid gravity of de- pertinent and without particle of vanity in this respect differing from the young hu- man puss with her first pair of earrings.
 Some magnificent trees adorn the rear of the College grounds aside from the elms. One ia an oak near Durfee college named the IT iaH naE in nj H4rrick, College treasurer, who died June 1 II, 1862, aged ffty-one years, and whose | fathers homestead was on that spot, and l where we believe he was born. It is green and thrifty, happy memorial of one of the best and purest men that ever blessed this l city. That oak may live to preserve his for a thousand years, for oaks some times live to that age. The oak is such a long lived tree that in various parts of Eng land certain individual trees are called "Gos- l pei oaks," because they have been selected to mark the boundaries of parishes and gre carefully preserved inviolable from genera ton to generation.
 The trees on the College grounds are re- csiving the best of care from the gentleman | who has them in charge and who gives them | his constant and loving attention. A most | pleasant little picture is the Yale Art build l ing just ss the rays of the declining sun illu | mine it. The picture owes it's croTning l x the running vines over the arched windows and up the buttresses. The color of the | vines too and that of tho stones are in har- mony, while green against the dull sickly hue of cheap brick is not to us pleasing. With deep red painted brick it Is agreeable. An example of this last is illustrated by the Car rfngton mansion on Elm street, which was built in 1765, as shown by the date in it's walls This is one of the most picturesque, homo like spots in this city. The mansion is low, solid, square, sitting massive on green carpeted lawn is painted deep red, with porch, window castings cornice, etc, black, and fence also black, thus furnishing three harmonious colors, black, red and green :; two immense expanding elms stand in front and the side yard, lawn and garden are in good taste, and there tower also two mag nificent naples. The green of foliage against houses of straw tint is also highly pleasing, and how beautifully these two colors harmo- nize every one must observe on large scale when they pass field of wheat golden for the harvest fringed by forest in the fulf of its emerald verdure. The har- monies of color the life study of the painter. But few outside of art seem to re- Rlizs how much the aspect of nature is va ried by the state of the atmosphere. One day some given spot will fill the sense of ad- irritation and on another be unattractive. The tint of the stone of the Hillhouse avenue church in certain skies is of a grateful blue and very beautiful, but ordinarily not so. An artist once demonstrated to us how color was affected by surrounding color. He showed us place in sky of painting that seemed as a grimy yellow, then making hole in pfecs of white paper, put 1t over it, when it stood out a bright golden hue Mo distes are learned iE the secrets of color as applied to fabrics, and the study must give them unceasing delight. We have an institu- ton in this city expressly founded to culti- vate the beautiful. We mean the Yale Art school. We could but wish that for all time Yale college, through the president of it's Art school, could have 8 strong voice in the boards which control the adornmsnt of our Green and our public grounds generally. No monstrosities against the beautiful in such anievent would be apt to be consummated.
 At the standpoint named to view the Art building, the Roger Sherman mansion, the eye takes in freak of nature. On the cor ner nearest above stands a young eIm with three prongs, reminding one of three tined fork. It is misplaced It should be on a corner below, that of Barkentin, the caterer.
 Now that the base ball season is over we will give little attention to politics. Some body is a miserable, dishonest thing, utterly unfit to be proposed for any office. As soon as we have looked over the list of Republican nominees, we'll tell you who it is. We've got to study up little frst.-Boston Post.