Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-20
NEWS OF THE STATE.
A $4,000 Fire In Hartford - Con

"A &lVsOUO r1F0 In H0Ft1OrO - COns
gresham Wilcox A Body Identi-
fed Obituary Notes - Our States
Educational Exhibit ut the Worlds
Fair - Rose Terry Cooke.
HARTFORD, July 19.-The Sam Colt
block was damaged $4,000 by fire and
water to-day, two-thirds of 1t in furniture
and household equipments generally. The
fire broke out in the rooms occupied by
Mrs. Il. L. Webster, the magnetic healer
She and her servants were fortunately
away at the time, and all of the occupants
escaped unframed. An immense amount
of water was poured into the building. |
The block is divided into ten apartments.
Mrs. Webster's house stood in her name,
but was mortgaged to the Security COM
pany. It was fully insured. She had |
considerable valuable furniture that was |
more or less damaged. Other families in |
the block were somewhat frightened, but |
did not move their goods. Tho end house |
in the block. occupied by John H. Morse. |
was soaked with water and about 50 900 |
damage done. This is included In the TO- |
tai loss given above. All insured.
BODY PICKED UP.
dead man, ffty-fve years old, picked up
on Fairfield beach Monday, was found a
letter bearing an English postmark, ad-
dressed to H. Stevens, Rowsyton, Conn.
coNNEcrIcUT's EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT.
The committee appointed by the council
| of education to make arrangements for an
educational exhibit at the worlds fair met
| in Secretary Hines Office at the capitol
| Saturday. The committee decided upon a
| plan which is not to show what is done in
the schools in Connecticut, but to show
how subjects should be taught In &C.
cordance with this plan the exhibition
| will include:
| ton OF the school system
9. Exhibition of kindergarten system.
of tae
| system OF the state.
The plan which the committee has
adopted for Conneoticut's exhibit Is like
that of no other state. It will show the
best work possible done, and in this
connection the committee earnestly urge
and invite all teachers In the state to send
suggestions along this plan. The teachers
in the state will make out summaries of
under what conditions of study the best
work has been done, and individual
studies will be shown in place Of different
grades in the public school, as is contem-
plated by many other states.
DEATHS IN DANBURY.
Ferris D. Ball, aged seventy five, one of
the Oldest residents of Danbury, is dead
J He was a captain in the state militia more
} than fifty years ago.
, James Moore, aged forty four, a con-
} tractor and prominent politician of Dan.
/ bury, died of paralysis Monday. He was
J for several years a borough burgess, and
\ has hold many other borough and town
Offices.
SOME TRUTH IN IT.
The bicycle is such a fascinating means
5 of working ones self to death that several
young men in their ardor to make long
, distances after days work have run
: themselves to the invalid list The tend.
: ency to make home run in that direction
~ does not promise to become popular
. Norwich Bulletin.
WATERBURY WOULD LIKE THEM.
Waterbury takes kindly to the idea o.
:, electric street cars. The Republican say
editorially: The project to substitute cleo
tricity for horses as a motive power fol
It Waterbury's street cars continues to attrao
q public attention. Unless the Republican
Il is greatly mistaken the sentiment of tn,
community is overwhelmingly in favor O
IL the proposed change. The adoption O.
It such rapid and efficient street car ser
i vice as electricity alone can give and tn
" extension of the lines into the suburbs an(
; into the residential sections of the cit,
. which are not at present reached would. il
= our opinion, enormously promote Water
. bury's permanent and healthy develop
- ment.
p0sr rrppv COnY
Z The Hartford Courant of yesterday pay
the following appreciative tribute to tn
q memory of this gifted lady, a native o
% Hartford:
n This city has cause to be proud of Mrs
Cook as a writer, for no other woman Dor,
here has won equal name and fame in tn
5, literary field. She began to exercise he
- pen before she was twenty and early VOL
10 place both with prose and verse in tn
- prominent magazines. In 1860 appeared
81 her first volume Of poems from the Boston
;, house of Ticknor & Fields, and their qualit,
% at once gained her recognition as a new ant
8 the songful soul moved by a lyric impuls
y were felt in her work, while a decided
q ethical atmosphere lent earnestness ans
depth to it. 1t may be doubted If an,
verse written in after years by Mrs. Cook,
= surpassed such pieces as Trailing Arbu
} tus" and ''The Two Villages" found il
l. this collection. Books following this in
y y itial volume are: Happy Dodd, "Some
q u body's Neighbors," "Root Bound, eth
70 Sphinx's Children" and Huckleberres,
9 the last named group of New England
% sketches containing come of her best ant
II most characteristic work, appearing only
> last year. As weaver of shor
u stories, a delineator of New Eng
= = land types of rural life, Mrs. Cook
10 was equaled only by Miss Jewett and Mis-
i Wilkins; and if the younger wome1
~ of local color, there was a spontaniety ant
u an underlying moral purpose in the Older
woman which went far in compensation
= Mrs. Cooke was of the race of Georg,
Il Sand with respect to her manner of com
. position; that is, she was an improvisel
q who cared little for the labor of the fiji,
J, and who had both the merits and defect.
of that manner of writing. At her bes
10 her tales and sketches show keen yet toll
y Grant knowledge of human nature and
u ! happy blending of pathos and humor
"The Deacon's Week" being a fair exam
u pie, where many might be mentioned.
. Personally Mrs. Cooke was a woman OF
2 high ideas, warm heart and noble life
Many readers of the Courant will remem-
. . Der the stirring and tender lines called out
from her on the occasion of the death Of
her friend, Harriet Foote Hawley, and
y printed in these columns, for which she
v wrote from time to time many poems
Her friends and lovers hereabouts, as well
: as the far wider audience which she won,
+ may fifty apply to her, now that she has
encountered the last enemy, such a stanza
:, as the following, which closes her poem
called "Beyond:"
a ''Yet courage, Soul, nor hold thy strength III
Q In hope o'ercome the sleeps Goa sets for thee;
q For past the Alpine submits Of great pain,
Lieth thine Italy"
Mrs. Cookies funeral takes place at Col
h linsville Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock.
CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL FAIRS.
+ T. S. Gold, secretary Of the state board
. of agriculture, announces the following
: list of fairs to be held in this state during
a the present year:
f Connecticut state, Meriden, September
q 1923; New London county, Norwich, Sep
Z TENDER 1929; Windham county, Brook
Ign, September 1922; Berlin, Berlin, o.
= tober s.; Bristol Park company, Bristol,
q September 1928; Chester, Chester, Octo-
; Der 8; Clinton, Clinton, October 5; Dan
v bury, Danbury, October 38; Far
). mington Valley, Collinsville, September
= 1929; Guilford, Guilford, September
l. %; Harwinton, Hsrwinton, October 4;
q Manchester, Manchester, September 7-S;
i New Milford, New Milford, September 10;
o Simsbury, Simsbury, October Sc; Stafford
F Springs, Stafford Springs, October lib.
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