Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-05
The kats Ex-Governor Engllsh-Pub- llc Uses Of tho Departed old State House-A Word Of Regret.

The Kate Ex-Governor EnglIsh-Pub-
 llc Uses Of tho Departed old State
 House-A Word Of Regret.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Within the last three or four months the writer, aa in former days, had several inter views with this departed statssman and could recite many things done and words spoken by him which In proper time would con- tribute to his interesting life and reflect his views on many subjects, among them the following only two or three weeks ago:
 Speaking of the state house he said: "I stood ready to give my check for $1 ,000 to- wards . fund by citizens to put 1t in order and hold it for public uses, and MT. N. F. Hall had said to me that he would add his check for the same amount and purpose" And MT. William Atwater and Mir. Samuel l.. Marsdep, just now deceased, offered to mako another $1 ,000; and others stood ready to follow until. as we believed, fund sufi. eient to meet the necessary outlay by such gentlemen would have been raised.
 The governor and the writer then discussed "public uses"-and the writer, among other things, remarked to Governor English that there is one use which no one has thought of, to-wit: When such men e your old partner, sxsMayor Welch, dies, all men wish to view his remains, and pay to them their last re- spects, but private houses arc unsuited, and churches were not designed for such uses; therefore, the stately public hallway of the state house supplied the place of all others where the rsmains of departed worth, infu- ence and goodness could "ie in state" guarded by chosen friends and a delegation of uniformed police, with flowers and em. blems in harmony with the life and character of the dead.
 "Oh, dear me-" said the governor, "why had you not told mo this beforsa I do not know what might have done if that thought had crossed my mind"
 The writer replied the reason was that this idea, like many others, had been reserved for l the trial of the injunction case on its merits in the superior court, which trial is yet to come. He then remarked: "Who will re- place that buildingi'
 To-day we feel the loss of that building; indeed, by this time it would have been more than restored externally, and Its main hallway also, for if private money had had with an inlaid hallway floor, granite steps and sidings would have been in place, pre- cisely as private drawings and estimates had | projected; the cost of which would have been met and the work completed, 70 that to-day the remains of ex.Governor English would, or could have been, 'laid in ssate'' there for everybody to pass by and evidence their profound respect for the man.
 But he has died, and 60,000 people are deprived of viewing his body 'Iying in stats," without -pomp or demonstration; and he will go from his homo to the church for a mere moment, and then be laid away beneath the turf like Brewster, Kimberly, Baldwin, Hoadlsy, Ives, Knight, J.W. Fitch, Scranton, 6illiman, Trowbridge and others. New Haven has no public place for the purpose we have stated, for the living to eulogize the dead, and in turn when they die where our orators (of whom we have none, tor want of practice might "lis in state"
 It may be said that such an article as this before our departed citizen is laid away ii premature, but this is just the time to feel the need of that stately building and to cen. sure It's departure, when 1t should have been the very rlace whore in silence the dead could speak to all who should pass by the oasksi "resting in state" in an elegant hallway in ( stately building devoted to ''public uses." B. NoYEs.