Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-12
J. S. Kulp, '87 s.; S. Carlton, '57; E. B Patterson, w. T. Rainey.
HAMILTON PARK SOLD

1 10 Wilson WaddfnGham Of Wes Haven and BunnelI x Scranton, th' 1 Bankers-The old Parks Numerous l Holiday EveG ts in Years Past-SPec l ulaIiOns as to It's Future Use-Mr | Waddin%ham Sees the Park For the l First Time After the Purchase. Hamilton Park is now the property of MT Wilson Waddingham, the millionaire of Wes Haven and Bunne1 and Scranton, the bank
 CTS and brokers of this city, having beer purchased by them last Wednesday. This is one of the most notable sales of real estate in this city for years, on account of the value of the property involved and the fact that
 the park has been for so many years so well
 known to the people as a picnic resort, trot-
 ting park, base ball field etc. For twenty
 years it was the great place for notable base
 ball games, large picnics and horse races, but
 for the past five or ten years it's prominence
 in this line has been waning, owing in part
 to the transfer by the Yalensians of their field sports to the Yale Field after failure to
 purchase the park at their terms. At old
 Hamilton Park there were great crowds years
 ago on many an occasion of public note. The
 New England fair was held there about
 twenty years ago, lasting about one week.
 Great base ball games, collegiate and other
 wise that thrilled the spectators
 with intense emotion as the
 victory wavered first to one side and then to
 the other, were played there. The Yale and
 Harvard football struggles took place there,
 and when General Ney, now of Minneapo-
 lis, Minn., was president of the New Haven
 Driving association, and during the reign of
 other associations, there was good horse rac-
 ing that delighted large audiences. St.
 Patrick's church year after year held it's "big
 picnic" there and has continued to do so un-
 til within quite recent date. There used to
 be many a spirited and exciting horse trot at
 the park, but in late years the race track
 has been almost deserted. On this track
 MT. Jarvis Joslyn, George Carpenter, Dan
 Mace, Budd Doble drove to win, years ago, and not few celebrated horses have trotted to win on the same track. Also half a dozen county fairs have been held at the park. For five or ten years past, however, the number of public events at the park has much lessened.
 The purchase Of the park was made Wednesday, The deed was recorded yester- day. The park had been owned equally for many years by MT. B. E. Hall and MT. George w. Scranton. When the former went into insolvency year or two ago, his interest in the park passed into the hands of the trustee of his estate, General 5. E. Merwin. The general represented MT. Hall in the sale of the property and ex-Judge Morris looked after the interests of Mir. Scranton.
 There are fifty-one acres of land in the park. It was MT. Waddingham's original idea to buy in the place, and he communicat- ed his intentions to Bunnell & Scranton, re- questing the firm to see what could be done toward acquiring it. The brokers, after there had been a number of confer enees, decided to join with the mil lionaire and become part owners in ha n Mr Waddingham. The latter was less prom ment in the prelimlnaries that led up to the sale than the bankers. In the deed for rec ord Bunnen 6 Scranton are mentioned as holding the property in trust for MT. Wad dingham. But they own it jointly. The check for the payment of the land was hand ed to, General Merwin and George H. Scran- ton before noon. The price paid is not stat ed by the purchasers. The price paid for the property by Messrs. Hall and Scranton was $SS, 300.
 MT. Waddingham never saw Hamilton | Park until he and the brokers had bought it. | He took a drive over the park subsequently | with Messrs. Bannell & Scranton.
 Of course speculation is rife as to what l will be done with the park. Several uses | have already been assigned for it. It is, ac- l ,ording to purely speculative rumor, to fig | 1re prominently as factor in 8 parallel rail l road project, or else MT. Waddingham is | to convert it from a pleasure ground | for the masses into a stamp | ng ground or ranche for bold, | brave and hardy Texan cattle-a sort of east ern depot for western cattle; or else the new owners are to cut it up into building lots, project more feasible than ever to contem plate, as sometime in the near future the old llmshouse will be no more and the town will 1 lave it's almshouee on the new location pur- ,hased for that purpose. The last of these heories is considered as the most probable o be realized.
 The park was a pet project of the late Ion. James Brewster, who headed the or ,anization who in 1859 bought and control ed it and who named it Brewster Park in his lonor. After he withdrew and the name be- anne the Hamilton Park association, Messrs. l Hall and Scranton bought the park in 1875. )ne of the afternoon papers by typograph- gal error made the date of their purchase 375. The property is estimated as to-day 1orth $50,000.