Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-11
NEW HAYEN'S ELMS AND GREEN. Descriptions, Hist .ricai Items aud An- ecdotes of PersOas and Things Con-
 Eected Herewith.
BY HENRY HOWE.


 TN ABOUT THIRTY oHAPTERs-CHAPTER xxII ] The Ir5sh nEefhctffst Itinerant John w. maHt-HIs EIoquence and Wonderful Suec4ss-k4fs Labsrs 1n New H%veH- Etis AutobfoEraPhy. or Tears of Com trftIon''-FHts Address on Genius Before the BrOthsrs' Society of Yale-Ae Dies B<oksn-Hsarted.
 On the morning after the publication Of our last in reference to the September gale of 1921 gentleman gave us some new items The storm vas of but short duration, but | ths spray from Long Island Sound was car ried even farther north than VIC stated, that is to Wallingford. It encrusted windows even in Middletown, Middlebury and other places twenty four miles from the sea. Many chimnies were prostrated in our city and the people were largely in trepidstion. It seems that during the height Of the gale mother on State street took her boy babe a year old from the cradle, saying as she did so to her husband, 'sI fear the house will be blown down, and the little fellow will be safer in bed with us.' Three minutes later the chim- ney came crashing through tas roof and buried the cradle under the brick. The oc- cupant of that cradle was George ". Maltby, to-day doing business at 24 Center street.
 The Methodists at the period of the build ing of the church on the Green receive great aceessions to their ranks from the la- bors of the itinerant John Newland MafEt. He smigrated from Dublin in April, 1919, he being then in his twenty fifth year. No per- sen since the days of Whitfield had drawn such crowds. It was estimated some years before his death that upwards of 10000 were added to the Methodist societies through his instrumentality, besides great numbers who joined other denominations. Says writer who knew him we'll ''As an orator he was pre-eminent. The various intonations of his musical voice, expressing the different passions which move the human mind, his animated couneenance, his ashisg eyes all carried conviction to ms audience that was irresistible. At times his descriptive genius was ezhlpiteo "ltn pathos and subinaity rarely equaiieo.
 The church on the Green was crowded to ovaraowing whenever he appeared, and SO prsat an impression did his oratory make Tn our city that one of the literary socleties or Vale college in vited him to deliver an address before them. One who saw nm olten here tslls ns that he was little short young fsl- iov of that time, about thirty years of age, rS;th iet black hair, black flashing eyes, and ,ons;cal voiee-erace was in every movement and beauty in every tone The women es- DsciaIiv adnired him in popular phrase ttwent crazy over nlm.
 He was, we have been told, tailor by trade. ,v;tbout education; but he had the natural gift of delivery, with the power of constructing his sentences in impid, flowing rythm, that fell rnusically upon the ears. These, when araIyzad, were shown to consist of little more than collection of pretty similes which fell sparkling from his impassioned lips.
 This little fellow, who had little mites ot feet and soft plump little hand, after an ex- hortation would come down from the pulpit and % out among the women, with his head thrown back ard singing in melo' aious tones, and then pausing now and then