Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-09
oUR NEW MAYOR.

g His Message Comt1nuesa to Attract
 Attention Toward New ELaven-
 more Newspaper 0omments-Whaf
 . Leading New Haven Thinker
 Said.
 Our new mayors message continues to attract the attention of the newspapers from it's novelty and originality. The New York Commercial Advertiser, one of whose editors is a former New Haven boy, de- votes leader to it, giving some humorous touches regarding it, while admiring it's spirit of independence and it's originality. It commends the band concert project in remarks in the writer's best vein of humor, approves of the recommendation for the annexation of Westville, which it takes for granted must be good thing, having no idea where Westville is, and gives neat thrust at the single tax on land business and the Edward Bellamy tone of the mes sage.
 Tho Boston Globe thinks Mayor Sargent must have given Yale university shock, and says: eMayor Sargent of New Haven boldly calls for the acquisition and opera ton by the city of all street railway lines, together with all the gas and electric light plants, and openly advocates the single tax program of Henry George. The new mayor is at the, head of the largest hardware man. ufacturing business in the United States. What shock the dry-as-dust faculties of
 Yale college must have experienced upon
 reading this novel contribution to munici- pal philosophy"
 Said one of our leading thinkers of
 national fame regarding Mr.Sargent: I am glad of his message and it's originality, it's
 fearle sness and it's oddities, it's recom-
 mendations and it's absurdities, as for in-
 stance, it's Henry Georgian sentiment.
 But New Haven needs mayor once in a while who steps out of the ordinary rou-
 tine, out of the ordinary rut. MT. Sargent,
 it is true, takes long look ahead. Some of the ideas and projects he advocates can not be carried out during this and proba-
 bly, several more generations. Still it is all touched with the idea that New Haven
 has great possibilities before it and 2 future of no small importance. It is a
 growing city. It is we'll to look ahead Mir. Sargent looks ahead. He shows also
 tendency by the way to socialism. He shows tendency to fall in with the
 ideas of the author of Hooking Back ward" But he is right in looking
 
 lous city some day, and not far distant than it now is. It's railroad lines and com municatiens, it's water front, it's impor tance as shipping and commercial center all bespeak this. Mayor Sargent has cer tainly given the public food for thought And would you believe its There was { tinge of socialism in the 1egislating don' in old New England, away back in thu old Puritan days, in the early times in ou1 Colonial history, as the records plainl. 1 show, when the law stepped in to regulat' what price should be paid in various de partments of labor, all this right here il our New England colonies. It is interest 1 ing in this respect to look backward. Blu as said the new mayor has given the pub | lie food for thought and awakened an in l terest which cannot but be healthful, n | matter if some of his ideas are fancifu1 o ! impracticsble, or at least of doubtful utility. Rev. MT. MarkwIelk's Installation. Rev. Asher Anderson of Meriden ha been invited to assist in the installation o | Rev. w. F. Markwick over the Ansoni First Congregational church, January 21 ! He will deliver the address to the people Tr1p1ets Baptized.
 MER1DEN, Jan. S.-The triplets born t MT. and Mrs. John Curran of 565 Mort Colony street were baptized this even1n | in St. Rose church. The babies are d l fine, healthy ones and doing finely. Th 1 boys were named respectively William an | Joseph and the girl, Florence Elizabeth.