Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-01
THE OLD LIBERuAN HOTEL.

The Brewster and Fitch Factories
 With Sundry Other RecolIections.
 In answer to the inquiries the writer can only say that the old Liberian hotel was kept by "Old Lamson" the same who built from Brewery street to Long wharf, and was thereby ruined financially. Hav- ing visited that resort only as a bathing place, which I think was originally slaughter house, can not at all vouch for it's history before 1895, or subsequent to 1885.
 Old Lamson's daughters were very fair, his sons-in-law were famous for musical endowments, and to late day have been for balls and parties. Midd,eaged citizens can call them to mind. "The Liberian Hotel'' was famous, however!
 The Brewster factory was destroyed by fire as stated; Mir. Brewster rebuilt it ex- actly as the original subsequently it was occupied by Harvey Hoadley and then by Starr & Darrow as a carriage factory, then by W. & E. T. Fitch as a lock factory, then by Rogers, Smith & Go. Plate compa- ny; at present by the Boston Blackboard factory for building carriages and wagons, W. & E. T. Fitch having erected extensive spring works just below on East street, the business of which they successfully prosecute at present. All these were the new township of our boynood; to say nothing of the hundreds of acres which were then "Barnesville" Barnes Tavern'0. Mr. Barnes was the father of William A. S. Barnes of New York publishing notori- ety. All north of Barnesville was laid out 1~k ,>1, kol q, | tire property to "Neck Bridge" State street.
 This part of the city opposite Forsyth's l laundry is of "Joe Mountain" memory, his ! execution for rsps, of which I was inform | ed by maternal Knowledge. The brothers, Jocelyn, who opened this tract as wide as l other large tracts, never reaped the reward ! merited for their original enterprises. l The park at the foot of Humphrey street was the thought of these public spirited citizens, Sidney and Nathaniel Jocelyn. l Spireworth square was also pet of Sid ney, the abolitiopist, who designed to es- tablish quarters there for colored citizens of whom when a boy, I understood, we had one in ten of our population. To Sidney Hull and Nathaniel Jocelyr the city was greatly indebted for the lay. out of the west end of the city between | George and to West river to great ex I tent.
 If the cutting up into parks, streets anc | avenues as was laid out by Messrs. Jocelyr and Hull had never been interfered with
 and grounds which they dedicated to tht
 public had not by their misfortunes beer
 reconstructed, the city would now, to say
 the least, be no more crooked or discon
 nected than they are to-day. Connecting
 streets are what we want; with fewe
 crooks or endings the better the streets.
 It has been argued by one high in tn
 law, that "a cobweb city is better thai
 square blocks" but the writer cannot see it
 Where is the place that @ terminus is goot for the public? Where is the street that .
 continuous thoroughfare is not preferable
 Where is the street that has been extended
 that the owners would prefer to have it a l it was of old?
 It has been said in one instance wher
 improvements were frustrated: 1T thanl
 God some men do not live eternally" Tn
 writer has seen much opposition to i'm ! provements and has also seen that in al
 most every case the opponents lives hay
 been of short duration, and afterwards ha
 seen projected improvements carried on a
 hundreds per cent greater coat
 Do not kick against the bricks.
 If there is street before anothe
 which should be improved by exseAsion
 that street isGrove street, ,fromState toWil
 liam, where over & thousand feet interfer
 with public convenience with no crossin
 or connection.
 William street would greatly at once se
 it's advance by easiness of access to tn
 portions of the city by right contiguou | progress.