Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-08
. spr.END1D DISPLAY.


 Results-BusIness Improving.
 Yesterday, for the first time in nearly | week. the sun shone brightly and the hearts | of the ladies were made glad to think that they were able to get out on the street, and | above all that they were able to visit F. M | Brown 6 Co.'s magnificent dry goods store on Chapel street on the first day of their an- nual spring opening. All day crowds ot ladies and gentlemen entered the store to make purchases and view the magnificent display, and the many clerks were kept busy selling goods while an extra cashier had to be employed to help the regular one in making change and returning it by the small balls which kept constantly rolling in- to the cashiers department Before the ladies entered the store they all stopped and eazed with marked admiration at the magnificent display of silks, bonnets, hats and suitings taste fully arranged by the skillful hands of the firms artist A visitor entered the store during the afternoon and after pushing his way through the dense crowd which filled the store, to the rear on the east side, he found himself in miniature palace of milli- nery goods. This department was also crowd ed with ladies', who stood around table on | which were displayed about two hundred bonnets and hats artistically gotten up by | the aid of the choicest feathers, flowers and silks, and made in the height of fashion, and among them were hats of every | conceivable shape and trimmed in l all colors. The visitor after looking over this department, and hearing the excla nations of the many ladies who were carried completely away by the display and made silent VOWS that their husbands would suffer | the damages of one of those pretty little bon | nets this spring, took few steps to the | 4r 4hn 1 cloak department. Here again was another
 large crowd viewing the large and we'll l chosen display of suitings, cloaks wraps and l children's suitings of all kinds and prices,
 and despite the orewd there were many who l made purchases. The next place visited was | the silk, velvet and dress goods department l and once again the visitor was lost in won 1 der at the display of silks, satins, velvets ! and dress goods of foreign and American make piled artistically from counter to cell ing. The firm have prided themselves' on | their display in this department, and it is l no more than fair to say that the display was an excellent one and probably the rich | est and choicest ever made in this city. In I the ladies' underwear, linen and infants clothes department the display was much larger than in former years and the stock more choice and varied than ever before. | Next came the hosiery and corset depart | ment and here all the latest novelties in | this line were displayed as in the
 
 | assortment of piano covers. parasols, real and imitation laces, handkerchiefs and towels were shown in another department Still 1 another department was the ribbon. depart | ment where all could obtain the exact shade and width wanted. Then to close up with l came the gents furnishing goods department and the jewelry, button and novelty depart ! ments where another fine display was made. As the visitor was about leaving the store he I was met by MT. Gamble, one of the firm, who smilingly said that this was the largest opening ever had, and that business was on the increase daily, and visit to the estab lishment is the only thing necessary to know the truth of the statement.
 DEATH OF PROFESSOR TEACHER. A Loss To The City And The Country A Noble Man And Distinguished Yale Pr0fessor-His Life And Ser- vices.
 Yesterday morning at o'clock Professor Thomas A. Thacher of Yale college died at the age of 71. Professor Thacher was found l dead in his bed by the side of his wife when she awoke yesterday morning. He evident ly passed away peacefully and without | struggle. He died from an affection of the
 heart to which he had long been subject. Tuesday night he appeared to be in his usual
 health and retired without complaining of
 being particularly unwell
 The late MT. Thacher was native of Hartford, being born January Il, 1915, on Main street not far from the residence of Hon. Henry c. Robinson. He prepared for college at the old grammar school, Hartford, entering Yale in the class of 1885. His classmates included Professor John Brock | lesby of Trinity college, Rev. George A. Oviatt, the venerable chaplain of the Twen- | ty-6fth Connecticut regiment, Jared A. | Ayres, whose death occurred Q few weeks ago, s. Cheeseb1ough of Old Saybrook. After graduating in 1885 he taught in the New Canaan seminary for two years and then | in the Oglethorpe university in Georgia. He l became Latin tutor in Yale in 1888 and l four years later was made 8 professor. In 1s43 he went to Germany and Italy and studied two years. While there he was of l fered and accepted position tutor of the Grown Prince of Prussia and his royal cous- 1 in, Prince Frederick Charles, in English. For upwards of fifty years Professor Thach- CT had been connected with Yale college and 1 his death will be deeply mourned throughout
 the country by the graduates of Yale. lessor Thacher lacked in. the clements | endearing him to humanity. Towards the \ thousands of students who have sat at his I feet, he was unalterably frank and generous, and the soul of honor. The noblest part of a Yale education was the manliness which | l spired. The remembrance of his ways will l touch hundreds of hearts to-day the l nouncement of his death is made from lip to l lip by those who have come under his in l struction and influence. His editions of | Cicero de Oficiis and of Madvig's Latin grammar have been of great service to classi- | cal scholarship in this country. Prof. Thacher 1 was twice married, his first wife being the l daughter of President Day of Yale. The old 1 presidents home on Grown street was occu- 1 pied by Professor Thacher for large num- l ber of years, and his family of seven sons
 and one daughter were reared there. In the | history of Yale scholarship the old l Grown street home will sustain | singularly interesting part. The sec l ond wife was Elizabeth Baldwin Sherman, l granddaughter of Roger Sherman, also of | New Haven, and sister of Mrs. Henry White The sons with their classes at Yale are James K, '6S; Thomas, '71; Edward s., '72; Alfred
 B., "A; John s., TT; Sherman and George
 Thacher. There is one daughter, Miss Elizabeth Thacher, now young lady. Pro- lessor Thacher is the last of his family as
 originally living in Hartford. His brother, Rev. Dr. Thacher, died there two or three years ago. Sheldon P. Thacher, also his l brother, died in 1876.
 James K. is Dr. Thacher of this oity,
 professor of physiology in Yale Medical
 school. Three of the sons are in profession
 al life in New York city. The late Prof.
 Thacher was descendant of Rev. Thomas
 Buckingham of Saybrook, one of the found
 CTS of Yale college: While at. Hopkins
 Grammar school the principal teacher
 was Elijah P. Barrows, Yale 1926,
 whom the deceased ever held in high
 esteem as teacher and 8 man. Through
 whose agency he was called to become tu-
 tur to the Crown Prince of Prussia (now soon
 to become the Emperor of Germany and to
 his royal cousin, Prince Frederick Charles,
 deceased never knew. The royal scions were
 13 and 16 years old respectively when under
 Prof. Thacher's instruction.
 The death of Prof Thacher is national
 loss as we'll as loss to this city and the col
 lege. Men of his stamp ars invaluable to the
 country. The form of disease of which he
 died was angina pectoris. He made call
 on the evening before he died upon neigh
 bor, MT. Arthur D. Osborne, president of the
 Second National bank, who resides next door
 to his relative, Governor Henry B. Harrison.
 He was at the time in his usual health. He
 had long known that the dread messenger
 would most probably call him from earth | suddenly but his life was an amnle rrepara-