Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-10

lot the spacious Dr1cK house now occupied by the Qainnipiao club. It was one of the by Ithiel Town at the cost of SIG, ,0O0 in the course of the building fever which ran through the city during the war of 1872, and has left its lasting mark on the green in the three churches then erected there.
 I am not sure that his professional train ing was the best preparation for his busi- ness ss druggist. It is said that eus- toner came into his store one day and asked if he had any remedy for oorns. 70, yes" was the reply, as he limped to his shelves akd returned with . corn plaster, ''this is g sure cure" "What's the matter with your foot. doctor 9'' aeked the visitor, kindly. 70, I've got blasted corn on 1t. I've tried everything, but it's no use." casterisn school, which under John E Lowell attained 80 wide fame, by giving the site for proper building, that on which our present high school was after ward erected. He owned the Street build ing corner, and large part of his fortune, through the hands of his son, Augustus R. Street, ultimately went to found the Yale school of fine arts, the first separate de- partment of instruction in the fine arts which ever formed part of university in the history of the world and setting an ex- ample which has since been followed by Oxford university under the lead of Rus kin.
 Francis Boiling. l presume, was the Boiling of the shipping house of Boiling & Sharpe, the junior partner in which, q young Englishman, perished in 1766 in the shipwreck of one of their vessels bound home from Madeira, which was cast away on Point Shirley in Boston harbor.
 John Nicoll had been an importer of crockery in New York, and prosecuted the same business in this city in store on the west side of State street, between Elm and Court. His son, Charles Niooll, married . daughter of Abraham Bishop, who built for them the handsome mansion next west of Harmonic hall, which remained in the family till within the past two years.
 Ebenezer Huggins was Q wholesale and retail dealer in dry goods and groceries on Chapel street. The late Dr. E. Huggint
 Bishop was his grandson. Mir. Huggins was taken prisoner when the British en- tered the town in 177S, carried to New York, and put in the old prison ship lying
 near Long Island. His wife had prudent
 ly sewed guinea into his clothes, and
 with this he found means to procure g
 boat one night, in which he got to shore,
 and made his way back safely to New Ha ven.
 Eujsh Austin was a wharf merchant and lived in Whiting street, in the old hous. adjoining the armory property.
 Michael Todd died in 1797 leaving an es tate of about k2, 900. He was 8 merchant and probably partner in business witt Colonel Drake until 17S7, under the firm name of Drake & Todd. His house stood on tho site of that now occupied by the residence of Df. Charles A. Lindsley on Elm street.
 Elias Beers was brother of Isaac and the first postmaster of the city.
 Timothy Phelps was graduated ct Yale
 in 17SO, and kept g dry goods store or Chapel street, near Church. He left the city in 1806 and died in 1919.
 John Heyliger had represented the towr one of the firm of Heyliger & Redfeld. It is worth remark that ten out of thu twenty-six founders of the chamber were vestrymen of Trinity church, viz: Elias Shipman, Anthony Perit, Isaac Beers, Rus. sell Clark, Joseph Drake. Josiah Burr, Will
 liam Powell, John Heyliger, John Ntooll,
 Timohy Phelps.
 These men whose positions in the con- munity have thus rapidly reviewed were thoroughly in earnest in tho project they had in view. They kept up their monthly meetings with more spirit than their sue osssors have sometimes shown, and en- forced attendance by system of fnes for absence or tardiness. They meant busi- ness. New Haven was no longer @ free port; but the general return of prosperity to the state and country, under the new government of the United States, and President Washington, assured them that If they could preserve their trade from for. eigu spoiliations, the place could be made an important market for distribution for Eastern Connecticut and Massachusetts. and the new settlements from Connecticut in Vermont. Manufacturing interests were also beginning to attract attention and demand encouragement. As early as l762, Dr. Aspinwall of New Haven had imported mulberry trees and silk worms into Connecticut, and the next year state bounty was granted of ten shillings for every hundred of these trees that wore planted, and Sd an ounce on raw silk. The breeding of silk worms was s Haven in aHe f7se. z3s. aas'oe .oeo of thsm hsn being produced. The work was done in private families, and largely by the women of the household as means of adding to their pin money.
 Linen and paper were also made in the city. Ebenezsr Chittenden and Ell Whit ney had just perfected their earliest inven- tions.
 But for manufactured goods of home production we were at this period mainly dependent on Massachusetts and New York. In 17S6 the New Haven Gazette in chronicling the establishment of . tobacco manufsctory in this city urges an exten- sion of manufacturing throughout the state and says: ''This is the direct road to substantial independence. Connecticut, like @ strong ass, has long crouched down between her two burdens, Massachusetts and New York, and 1t Is time for her to throw them off," Such feelings led in the same year to the organization of the Gen. necticut Society of Arts and Scisnces, to promote, collect snd communicate s'useful knowledge in the arts and sciences, partic- ularly in agriculture, manufactures and natural philosophy" It was to meet twice a year, once at Hartford and once in this city. Governor Wolcott was it's presiden. and Pierpont Edwards of this city one . the trustees f
 Another society was formed here, not long afterwards, by few public spirited men, to remove what was then recognized Of the country and the state, more fully than it would have been half a century later. This was the ''Con- necticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom and for the Relief of Persons Unlawfully Holden in Bondage" which held annual meetings ct which public ad- dresses were delivered, and took part by its delegates, in tho annual conventions of abolition societies held at Philadelphia during . series of years.
 Although Connecticut, in 1784, had pro- vided that all slaves thereafter born should be free at twenty-five years of sge, the blight of the system was still upon us. The census of 179O showed slave popu- lation of over 2,000 and occasionally the advertisement of fugitive slsve, or . slave for sale, would appear in the news; papers. The Now Haven Gazette of No vember g, 1786, contains one reading thus:
 'sTo be sold ct public vendus on Tuesday the of Captain Enos Atwater, of Cheshire. deceased, good Negro Wench. about twenty years old. Also . brass wheeld Clock, V avers Loom, wi tacklinx, sundry feather beds, and furpt- ture and variety of articles Of household fur niture too numerous to mention"
 In the same paper, for April 19, 1797, we find this,
 "To be sold healthy strong and active Negro Boy, about Il years of age. Enquire or the printers,''
 4 letter from Nevport. of May 2. 17o1.