Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-18
OLD DAYS IN NEW HAVEN.

- OLD DAYS IN NEW HAVEN. A Veteran Observer and Honored
 Citizen Tells of the Past-Well Re.
 membered Names and once Familiar
 Scenes and Places.
 We are familiar with our own city; but where is or where was the New Townshipa Fair Haven we think, we all know; but not the Fair Haven of early days. The Annex is of the present time. Things have changed materially since New Township was the ename of the city below the present railroad bridge, where Daniel Brown kept shoe shop in the hollow where now is the railroad, and when he conducted music in the Center church and taught us young people to sing; his taking pinch of snuff at every rest was matter of course.
 Daniel Breeds bakery stood where now is the hardware store on the corner of Union and Chapel streets, occupied in the late Timothy Dwight's life by the Chapel street church congregation. MT. Dwight was the life and spirit of the church at that time; such Bible explanations as he did then bestow on the young men of New Haven have never been equalled; each Sunday noon the North church lecture room was crowded to hear him explain and illustrate the words, as no one has AIs AW1kAt WdS JuO SOu ol t1O oAA nal President Dwight who kept hardware store where is now the Boardman build ing. The old market occupied where is now the old depot. It is used at this date for the same purpose. The writer re- members being desired by his sister to purchase some liver, which then was not supposed to be eatable, and felt very cheap in doing it; but appetites have changed since those days. Tides did ebb and flow in the present bed of the railroad then. Rowland's mill stood above where ''Putty Smiths" building fronted what then was Cherry street, now Wooster. We boys always read it as "Putty" as was over the door top name underneath. Above Chapel street was the Jacob All rights fur store, where our fathers pur- chased our sealskin caps; afterwards the Rev. John M. Gar6eld's select school oc- cupied the building which is now Foote's Oyster Palace. Between that and Court street tar vats abounded. Court street from the Tontine to State was no more than a lane.
 The writer enjoyed pin fishing in the brook, which at times began at the "Pinto'' corner, where now is the junction of Grand and State streets.
 John Dwight's and Spencer's tan yards were in full operation too about the year 1894.
 When the Pennington canal was pro- jected and carried into execution, which is now the Northampton railroad, Greens flour warehouse occupied where now is the Second National bank Our lamented James Brewster bought the Wooster prop.
 erty and erected buildings Gmmortalizine | himself as was at that time suppose0 6 l United States postofice, including pub | lie hall.
 The bank has since materially changed the aspect. The Young Mems Christian
 association are now the occupants. MT Brewster also organized the first course oi ! lectures in the Franklin building, corner | Church and Grown streets. The Hoadley building is on the site of the same prop erty, corner Church and Grown streets
 It was we'll known in early days as Morse'' tavern; then Davenport's; afterwards Isaac
 M. Halls; till MT. Brewster originated lee
 lures for the citizens. At this (Morse's
 tavern General Lafayette had his recep
 ton. He was greeted with great demon
 we'll illuminated. Thousands greeted hin
 the next day, and with French character
 istic "Lafayette' well remembered th'
 names of many who were introduced.
 But to digress no further: New Haver
 township was all the city east of the rail
 road. Fair Haven was only known 8
 "Dragon!" The people came into town fo
 church; the Sunday schools were superin
 tended by the late lamented Amos Town
 send; teachers from New Haven went vol
 untarily to Dragon each Sunday from Ma,
 to October, two of whom are now living
 one of whom has had harder time in liv
 ing than seems warranted by his early en
 deavors for success. His battle for Tiff
 has been without apparent reward.
 New Township was 8 familiar househol ! was, however, one of the best. It stoo
 upon the corner of Academy and Chapel
 (The building now stands on the corner c
 East and Wooster streets.)
 Joseph Barber, the proprietor of the Cc
 lumbian Register, built for his residenc the house standing on the spot at preser
 owned by Justus Hotchkiss, esq. MT. Russell, who taught the academ,
 was no relative of the late general, but ws as unique in hisstreatment of boys as th general, and successful as he.
 New township took in all the easter
 part of the city, old Lanson's tavern o
 Mill river included. Lanson was powe in his day. He was a colored man, br } was employed to build Long wharf frol
 Brewery street to the long wharf. ruined him. The tavern occupied tl land where Mallory & Wheeler's factor now stapds The ''bloods" knew where
 go. Once, some glass having been broker , a ransom was demanded and paid for or who was supposed to have done the mi chief. But the right man was not the or
 ransomed. All pooled in.
 Lanson's children and grandchildre
 were we'll known; and to this day are we . remembered by their services
 7 | bo Prarpkor ooI Nhorpoc ! Jerome by purchasing up the lands, estai : fishing new enterprises, at once cause
 New Township to grow.
 The very grounds where the Nation Guards of New York encamped in IS; began at once to show improvements; tn the cholera year was remarked at the tin because the ''Bass Drummer" of u l Guards was nearly the first victim on h return to New York.
 II Dwight's school, the most aristocratic : the state, was for long time kept in tf ! Pavilion hotel by Serene and Edwal
 Dwight, sons of the original president 3 | Yale, both remarkable for their adaptabi ity in educating young men. Serene WI , a preacher also of high order.
 yI MT. Rrewster's factory was removed , where now are W. St E. T. Fitch's work the factory having been burnt up, tl writer with others assisting to extinguis the flames with an engine upon the ice the river.
 The Pavilion hotel and very much oth ] l property has since gone into the hands our worthy Mayor Sargent, with what T.
 suits no one need be told. The Pavillio
 hotel was the steamboat hotel; failing
 that it was in the hands of the late Juds Frisbie with success. West Indies flu nished the guests. The first steamboat a : rival was welcomed by the father of u
 writer and his son. Albany travel in the t days came all winter to New Haven then l l to Hartford.
 The fathers son has since made hu
 dreds of trips through Long Island sour
 with Captain Beecher, Captain Bartlet g Joel Stone, and Captain Richard Peck. t The writer has ridden on the ice wi a Captain Beecher nearly to the lighthous
 the writer in 1886 came from New Yol
 with Captain Stone when "Sid Gorhan :, l walked by the side of the steamer on u 7 ice, taking hold thereon with his hands. The writer calls to mind the old ro] a walk where St. John street now is. ;. John street owes it's existence as it is g the late Captain Sidney M. Stone. THAT FAMOUS FIRE. Petition for a Mitigation of the Sel , tence of One of the Students Caugl q Signed by Nearly the Whole Class. A mass meetinp of '94 WAS held