The Newtown bee., 1891-10-23
WESTPORT.
wESTPORT SANITARIUM co.

Westport is gaining desirable citizens
and will add to it's fame abroad by the
location here of the Westport Santarium
Co., which is now converting the disused
Compo place into convenient accommo-
dations for it's patients. r. Seaman, gen
ial secretary of the company, has given
the BEE some particulars of its organi-
zation and purposes. He and the resi-
dent physician were formerly connected
with the Brunswick home at Amityville,
on the south shore of Long Island, then
devoted to care of the imbecile and in
sane, children and adults, and still in
charge of Mr. Williams, father-in-law of
Mr. Seaman. New York passed State
law requiring insane and imbeciles to be
kept in separate institutions and, both
Mr. Seaman and the doctor being in poor
health, Mr. Seaman with bronchial trouble
they decided to locate in Connecticut.
They looked at different places between
Hartford and the New York line, but fin
ally fixed upon the Compo place here and
organized the Westport Sanitarium Co.
with 100000 capital. Compo place was
the magnificent country home of Richard
Ii. Winslow, a New York broker who
built fine mansion and laid out 80 acres
with beautiful drives through statuary
place passed into the hauds of S. III. Al
den, then passed on to the notorious D..
c. Birdsall and finally to the New York
Mutual Life Insurance Co., who held it
for some time as unoccupied property.
1t is admirably suited to the purposes of
the Westport Sanitarium Co., which gives
private treatment to all mental diseases,
particularly to the insane. They have
now Is patients, but are providing ac-
commodations for 100 in fine new sani-
tarium, 144x4O, which Scofield & Kirk,
Westport builders, are now finishing.
This is located little northwest of the
old mansion and fronts the south, the
front being broken by a fine entrance
porch, bay windows reaching to the top
most story, where dormer windows also
break up the monotony. A slightly OBJ
servatory overtops all. The building is
three stories above the basement and is
to be provided with steam heat and all
latest improvements. Corrugated iron
ceilings will be put on in the halls, but
most of the walls are placed by the New
Haven Adamant Co., adamantine walls
only less hard and durable than stone.
Success attend the new venture, whose
fine buildings and magnificent grounds
will furnish suitable home for the IN
fortunate hard to excel.
c. B. Kemper has painted the railing
and fence on the State street bridge and
is now painting Hurlburt block, east of
the bridge.
d. 2. McKenna has placed a handsome
Quincy granite monument over the grave
of Michael Hogan.
LeGrand Cannon is a student at the
New York college of pharmacy.
be held in the lecture room of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, November II and -.
The steadily growing interest and sue
cess of this Autumnal festival for the
benefit of the M. E.. church creates de-
sire to have this equal to all former ones.
Any contributions, from the farm, gar
den, store, factory or household, will be
most Gratefully received and called for,
if you will inform either of the UNDER
signed. D. A. Salmon, f. M. Raymond,
William E. Nash, William e. Albin, j.
l.. Fillow, S. j. Banks, John B. Mills,
G. W. Bradley. If stormy, the festival
will be continued to the first fair even
ing.
The late Richard S. Penoyer has had a
brass memorial placed to his memory in
front Of the altar at Christ church.
Mrs Annie Gorham, who has visited
Horace Staples, returned to her Redding
home, last week.
guiding hand is on the wheel