Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-15
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New Haven County and City in 1900.
 One of our subscribers has brought to this office copy of ''the American Gazet- teer, compiled from the best authorities by Jededish Morse, D. D., A. A. S., s. H. S., author of the American Universal Ge- ography," and published in 1894. It con- tains the following:
 New Haven county, Conn, extends along the sound between Middlesex county on the east and Fairfield county on the west; about thirty miles long from north to south and twenty-eight from east to west It Is divided into fourteen town ships. It contained in 1756, l7,955 free persons snd 226 slaves; in 1774, 25,se6 free persons and 925 slaves; in 17e0, 30,- 397 free persons and 43S slaves; and in 1900, 3l ,926 free persons and 226 slaves.
 New Haven Ccity), the seat of justice In the above country and the ssmi-metropolis of the state. This city lies round the head of bay which makes up about four miles north from Long Island Sound It covers part of large plain which is circumfer- -nced on three sides by high hills or noun taius. Two small rivers bound the city east and west. It was originally laid out in squares Of sixty rods: many of these squares have been divided by cross streets. Four streets run northwest and southeast, and are crossed by others at right angles. Near the center of the city is the public -quare, on and around which are the pub lie buildings, which are 6 state house, three college ediices, a chapel and edifce for the library, etc, three churches for Congregatinnalists and one for Episcnpa- lisns. all of which are handsome and com mcdious buildings The college ediices, state house and one oe the churches are of brick. The public square is encircled with rows of trees, which render it both con- venient aud delightful Its beauty, how ever. is greatly diminished by the burial ground and several of tine public buildings, which occupy & considerable part of 1t Many of the streets are ornsmented with rows of trees on each side, which give the city rural appearance. The prospect from the steeples if greatly vsriegated and extremely beautiful. There are between three and four hundred neat dwelling houses in the city, principally of wood. The streets are sandy but clean Within the limits of the city in 179S were 547 houses and upwards of 1, 600 souls About one in seventy die annually. Indeed, as to pleasantness of situation and salubrity of air, New Haven is hardly exceeded by any city in America. It carries on & con- siderable trade with New York and the West India i-lands. The -xPnrts for one year ending September 90, lG94, amounted to the value of $l7l ,S6S. Manufactures of cara teeth, linen, buttons, cotton and pa- per are carried on here. Yale college, which is established in this city, was founded in 100. and remained at Killing worth until l707, then at Saybrook until 1Gl6, when 1t was removed and fixed at New Haven. It has its name from its prin- cipal benefactor, Governor Yale. There are at present eight college domiciles, three of which, each one hundred feet long and forty wide, are inhabited by the stu dents, containing thirty-two chambers each, sufficient for lodging two hundred students; a chapel forty by fifty feet, with d steeple one Hundred and thirty feet high; mother edifice for the library, etc, of the same dimensions, a dining hall sixty by forty feet; house for the president and another for the professor Q: divinity. The public library consists of about three thou sand volumes, and the philosophical sppa- ratus is as complete most others in the United States, and contains the machines necessary for exhibiting experiments in the whole course of experimental philoso- phy and astronomy. The museum, to which additions are constantly making, contains many natural curiosities. From the year 100 to l793 there had been edu- sated and graduated at this university about 303. The number of students Is generally one hundred and fifty. The harbor, though inferior to New London, has good anchorage, with three fsthoms and four feet of water at common tides, and two and one-half fafhoms at lowNwa- ter. This place and Hartford are the seats of the legislature alternately Ii is forty miles southwest by south of Hartford, fifty-four from New London, eighty eight from New York, 152 from Boston and 1S3 northeast of Philadelphia. North latitude fl IS, west longitude 72 56.