Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-30
THE GREEN.
The Exceedingly Interesting Paper
 Read by Henry 1T. Blake Before tn,

he ExceedinEly Interesting Paper Read by Henry T. Blake Before the Hist orical Society.
 The following Is short synopsis of the interesting paper entitled "The lew Haven Green From 163s-1ss2." read y MT. Henry T. Blake before the Histori- 'al society Monday evening: He told how the green was originally jailed the market. place and by It's founders was intended to resemble the Roman forum and the Greek agors. It was not an imt- tation of the Boston common. After 1759 It was called the green. TIE CoNNEcT1cuT JOURNAL (now the JOURNAL AND CoURIER) about this time printed an advertisement in which Joseph Smith offers East India goods for sale at his store near tho green. Several names have been suggested, such as public park, but none seems to have met with popular favor, except the simple title the green. When it was first staked out in 1888, it presented to the view an un- even, wooded plain sloping upwards from east to west. The part of it was marshy and g small creek ran through 1t. The stocks and whippingpost were early con spicuous on the green and were the first emblems of the enjoyment of pub lie liberty and morality. The first LA00uAuH Aouuo LII 4N0W hov0A WN8 Uu4t OA the market place in the years 1888 40. It was probably built of the timber growing on the market place. A watch house was established at the same time and lasted un- til 1864. There was also a school house on the green as 1t then was. MT. Horace Day told me that President Jeremiah Day, who graduated from Yale in 1795, said that he remembered the old school house, which had at that time become public nuisance and in 1792 was abolished by the students without the formalities of law. The frs. bell was brought from Q schooner which was lying in the harbor in 1782 It was hung in the steepls of the meeting house. The citizens tested it's tone for year and a half before 1t wal purchased. And at that time began the music of the Sabbath bells, which has con tinusd until this time.
 The g p. m. Curfew bell was established at this time and continued until 1886 Polling the bell for funerals was discon tinued in 1882. In 1719 the state hous, was built at the northwest corner of tn, green. n,1756 the third meeting hous was built. It had steeple and was O brick. It was not built by the town, bu by the First church society, which ha since been called the first ecclesiastica ! society. It stood little east of the pres ! ent site of Center church. A great man, | trees had been set out in and around tn | green and when the British invaded Ne1 Haven in 1779, the captain said that tow was too pretty to burn. About ITO tn Fair Haven church society built meetin house little east of the present site c the United church. In 1784 the old jai green were removed. About 1900, $2, co was appropriated for leveling the surfac of the green and building fence. Afte the opening of the Grove street csmster
 burials were infrequent on the green. Th
 last one buried there was Mrs. Martin
 Whittlesey in 1812.
 An important event, the introduction (
 water, marks almost as distinct an era | the history of NewzHaven as the compl
 tion of the city hall during the same yes
 did in the history of the green. Since thu
 period it has been passing from the ehsra
 ter of rural New England town to tn,
 of large and cosmopolitan city. Whel
 isolated dwellings stood thirty years az
 long rows of compact blocks now line u
 streets. Foreign faces and foreign co
 tunes swarm along the sidewalks; cobwel
 of electric wires dsrken the sky, and ele
 tric cars fly to and fro through the fo
 merly quiet thoroughfares. But amid 2 | LILO CAaAkos III ltd SuTTOuuulDRa GQ0 A
 cient green, as 1t rests tranquilly under
 venerable trees, watched over by the pri
 and old-fashioned churches, thoss relics
 a by gone time when religion was matt
 of public concern, seems sleeping in u
 shadows of the past and dreaming of o New Haven. As the city grows more den
 and thronged around 1t, it's use as co
 venisnt spot for public buildings can
 longer be thought of, but it's priceless val
 ss breathing, and resting, and gatheril
 place for the people becomes continual
 more conspicuous. May it be guard
 from encroachment in the future mo jsalously than in the past, and may o
 successors in it's care, of every race al
 lineage, protect its soil. and cherish
 traditions with that affectionate venel
 tion which is the heritage and the test
 every true son and daughter of New B
 ven.
 A pleasant social season was enjoyed {
 ter the reading of the paper. Rsfres | ments were served.