The Newtown bee., 1890-10-03

patNciu, hhc louT CuTHcES representing
the four seasons. The panel over the ,
private office is study from one of the
old masters, representing a combat be-
tween a griffin and another smaller but
not less pugnacious mythical monster.
The side walls are finished in solid tex
ture work, in all colors. The finish on
the wood work is something entirely new
and indescribable, harmonizing fully
with the whole. The walls are hung
with Clark and Fuller's inimitable sam
pies of limitations of hard woods and fin
ish for genuine woods. The private Of
fee is decorated with paintings, includ-
ing an elegant representation of stork
from the artistic brush of +. N. Clark.
The fresco work of the ceiling and the
texture work was done by the young and
talented artists, Cateley and Watson.
'These and other branches of the trade
are within ourselves" said member of
the firm. The furniture of the Office is
| from Lowden, Wilcox IL Co. and that in
the private room from the ID. NJ. Read
Co.; the carpenter work was done by
Charles Botsford and the whole is one of
the most complete. One of Clark & Full
ler's specialties is advertising signs.
They have number of large sign boards
II to Ii feet high and so to 100 feet long,
in various parts of the county and make
contracts to paint and maintain signs for
all the leading advertisers in Bridgeport.
They have Just finished one in Port JEFF
ferson l2xlOO, for w. b. Hall & Co. and
Meigs & Co. and have anchored it so
firmly at the entrance to the harbor that
the island will have to be pulled up to
get it away. This work is in special
charge of the interchangeable Fuller.
Gov James Ii. Smith of the Territory
of Connecticut, National Provident I'm
ion, has called meeting for October 8,
at Bridgeport, to elect delegates to the
national convention which will meet at
New York, October 2S. This organiza-
ton, which is a secret and insurance as
ISOLATION, was organized in 1888 and it
has extended into the States of New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Della
ware, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, IL
| ~ ''"S NV
councils, with about 1000 members. OF
these, 500 are in Mr. Smiths bailiwick,
the State of Connecticut, with 125 in the
two councils in Bridgeport. The gov
eminent of these councils, both local and
general, is founded upon the system upor
which the commonwealth of Connecticut
and the United States administer theil
government. Each council has its off
GERS, whose titles and duties are not es
l sentially different from those of other or
ders. The councils within a State form
, either a state or a territory, according t.
= the number of councils within its Dor
:, ders. These are ruled by a governor ant
other executive officers and they in turf
are under the rule of the central or su
- preme council, whose members ant
speaker or presiding officer are similar t.
our Legislative house of representative
and speaker. The present councils max
ing up the Territory of Connecticut ar
= Fraternity, No. 20, New Haven; Bridge
port, No. 20, and Advanced, No. 76, o
: Bridgeport; Trumbull, 81, Hartford; Sc
: curity, p, Norwich; Roger Sherman, 81
Milford; Buckingham, Sc, Stamford
The executive officers of the territor
= are:
Governor, James IL. Smith of Bridgeport.
. Secretary OF state, William ii Ayre, Bridge
port.
Speaker of the house of representatives,
II. Pond of Hartford.
The officers of the two local circles are
}. BRIDGEPORT, NO. 20:
President, X. G. Andrews.
K Vice president, E. n. Blakcsley.
Secretary, George o. Dutton.
Chaplain, George K. Comstock.
Collector, Hartley Williams
- Counsellor, II. j. Household.
ADVANCED No. IS:
- President, j. A. Wygand.
:, Secretary, C. o. Smith.
Collector, Il. b. Gorgas.
: Sick benefits as we'll are provided an
{ the objects of the association are admir-
L ably told by the following:
: The National Provident Union is fraterns
o order, patriotic association, a beneficial III
ion and an educational society in one gref
organization, in which the mighty principle
8 of love of home and country are inculcate,
n where men are taught to regard American CT
izenship as the highest gift ever conferred u
on man and that loyalty to our country an
- its institutions is the first duty of either
\. where, by word and deed, its members al
% educated to practice those virtues which col
a stitute the noblest manhood. 1t is an Amer
l. can organization, in the clear, cool, righteor
Il ncceptation and definition of the word.
, loves the American flag, is loyal to the Anne
can nag, Is loyal to American institutions an
e Is determined that sour homes and our ycou
= try" shall be protected by all the power
{. commands. 1t abhors anything and ever
>, thing calculated to lessen manhood or depriN
any man OF his rights. 1t stands on the fri
broad basis OF manhood, regardless of brit
Re or creed or cast, or anything unmanly.
d SAYS to the world that the true American is !
whose only flag is that OF the stars and strip
and whose love for and loyalty to those pri
q ciples underlying American citizenship al
n as boundless as space and as deep as life
self.