Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-15
TO.DAY,S AUCTION.

The Big Sale of Buildings at Custom House Square-Interestfng Remfn- 1 1scences-The Square in Days Gone | by-The Period of Its Greatest Re- l noWn.
 This forenoon at 10 o'clock the auction sale by the Consolidated Railroad company of property on Custom House square and Long wharf takes place, E. O. Beeoher auctioneer. Many of our older residents will recall that these buildings have rec- ord in the annals of New Haven's history, and the erection of some of them dates back over one hundred years.
 The three-story building at the junction of State street, Custom House square and Long wharf was erected in about 1844 by Elnathsn Attwater, veritable ''town born" New Havener.
 The next building adjoining on Long wharf is one of the oldest buildings on the wharf. It was occupied by Eli Beecher, eldest son of Captain Benjamin Beeoher, and afterwards by our esteemed friend and townsman, Andrew L. Ktdston, some where in 1880.
 Next to this stands @ frame building, formerly occupied by Joseph Wright as 8 dwelling house, and in the memory of many of our citizens not yet out of their prime 1t has been kept as 8 sailors' board James Goodwin. The next, brick struct- ure, in the decade of 1880 was owned by Captain Samuel J. Clarke. It has always been in the family until sold by Judge Samuel J. Clark, of San Francisco, 1 about year ago to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Go. Next l to this was a lumber yard then followed the brick building belonging to the Messrs Arm strong's, and latterly to J. W. Ives, who sold it to the railroad company the past year. In 1920 the great fire on Long wharf consumed the struct- ures then standing, and our old friend Mir. Kidstcn remembers very wildly how bare the wharf looked as he rode into town from Branford the morning after the fire and can tell how the nails, now kegless, were piled up, and how the oils and molss ses which were stored in the cellars, min 1 gled, and how those more fortunate whose oil and molasses did not mix could send the molssses to Mosely's still to be msnu factured into New England rum, and how his father was the only man on the wharf who had any insurance. We suppose that in those days more hobby dressed men | with knee brooches and rufled shirts went l up and down the wharf than in any other | part of the town.
 | On the opposite side of Custom House square, familiarity known to the ''towr born" as Munson TOW, is the corner store of Elihu Sanford. father of Judge Edward I. Sanford and Nathan H. Sanford. The late Matthew G. Elliott, with Alexis Paint CT, was also in this concern when tht former made his first appearance in New Haven. All the stores on Munson TOW were on the line of the Old Pennington canal and basin. The old wooden struct ure was onoe kept by Amos Smith as paint and oil store. Next came the plac' of Isaac Trowbridge, father of Dsnie Trowbridge, president of the New Hs ven Gas Light company; then cam the Captain Jim Hunt property; thsl that of Nathan Peck, jr., late president O the Mechanics' National bank, who was en gagged in the West India business. Chat fald & Bishop were the next adjoining neighbors. and were engaged In naviga tion. MT. Chatfeld was the trying justice for the head of the wharf, and many in cidents of an amusing nature can be tolt of this magistrates ruling and administra tion of justice.
 The next building is the freight house
 first occupied by the Northampton com psny, after they removed from Templ
 street, when the cars ran down througl
 the old canal to the wharf. It stands O.
 what was formerly known es canal basin