The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-16
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Some of Its Facts and Fanoies. Written for the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
 SUGGESTIVE NAMES.

the older portions of 8 city offer
 most interesting study to those who are
 at all curious about such matters. In
 many places these names may be con-
 sidered as the titles to the chapters of
 a volume of local history A stranger
 of an Investigating turn of mind, talk
 ing up his abode in new place, might
 thoroughly inform himself as to it's set
 clement it's prominent characters and
 those episodes in it's history that were
 thought worthy of being commemorat-
 ed, simply by following up the clues
 presented by the names of it's streets.
 This is particularly striking here in our
 own city, though 1t is a fact that fa-
 miliarity with the old names has bred
 in some of its residents, if not contempt,
 that indifference that is the mate of | ignorance or carelessness.
 How many of us have ever stopped
 to reflect upon the slngularly sugges-
 tive combination of names attached to
 the streets In that central portion of
 the city known as the mine original
 squares?" They are not fanciful names
 but short, plain, solid names, very se-
 rious and dignihed. They stand for | facts.
 Did it ever strike you, my reader,
 whether town-born or imported, that
 among these streets there is none nam ed for Charles I, who whipped mutila- | ted and imprisoned Puritans? Or for | his son, Charles IT, a weak, worthless | t1D T. Tn | breaker, bigot and persecutor of all
 Protestants? But we have two streets
 that may be said to commemorate the
 re-establishment of Professionalism in
 England; Orange suggesting the ac-
 cession of William and Mary, and
 George, which may remind us of the
 accession of George I after the Act of
 Settlement which had excluded Catho-
 lie claimants to the throne of Great
 Britain. Parallel with George street, and at right angle with Orange street, Is Grown, suggesting the Crown to which the colonists were loyal until George III became too greedy in the matter of taxes. York street might suggest to the young student of his tory the Wars of the Roses in which the House of York took a leading part As a matter of history, the name pre- serves for us the fact that the York shire families who joined the colony in October, 163S, were given the west cen ter square" of the town plot for their home lots. This was called "the York shire quarter" The "out lands" of these settlers extended from what is now York street to or beyond West riv- CT. Of "the seven pillars of the church of God" two, John Punderson and Thomas Fugill, were Yorkshire men
 Chapel street calls up the fact that, as Dissenters from the Established Church, the Puritans were wont to hold divine service in unpretentious ohapels. Our colonists' first religious service in the new country was held under an oak tree. A few weeks later q re- markable meeting was held in Robert Newman's great barn" where, very formally and solemnly, they laid the foundations of their civil and religious polity The first meeting house" was built just in the centre of the market place-our Old Green, the heart, the life-centre of New Haven. This may have very little to do with Chapel street, but the name "ChapeT may
  Puritan was opposed to ostentation and extravagance in religion, and suffered torture, exile, or death for his ad- vocacy for simpler purer forms of faith and worship, just as the Russian suffers to-day.
 By the way, 1t is noticeable that in many towns and villages all through | New England the principal street is Main" street A very prac- tical sort of name, but more suggestive | of water and gas than of early history. | Main street does very well for Hartford, | and Middletown, and Westville. but | New Haven Is fortunate i'm having | less hackneyed
 As for College street, it speaks of that respect for education which char lcterized our colonists. They brought a schoolmaster with them, and as soon as room could be made ready school | began. And college would have been founded here much earlier than 1t was lad it not been for the reasonable objections of the Massachusetts people who feared that the population of New England was not sufficient to support wo colleges. The contribution of New Haven to Harvard college began in GA, was kept up for many years. Of his contribution, which consisted of wheat and was called "college corn" Governor Eaton said: Tt is service O Christ, and may yield precious fruit O the colonies hereafter" When at asst the first college building was rected here it stood on the Green acing College street, opposite the spot where "Old South College" arose some orty years later. At the first public held in New Haven, the class of 171S numbering 10) the ollege was "most solemnly named Tale College" Easy to see how that treet got it's name.
 Court" suggests, not the court of ither Charles, abhorred by Puritans, ut magisterial court with all it's dig ities and seventies. The fathers of ur city established civil order as soon $ possible under the circumstances, nd "the seven pillars of the church" became the pillars of the civil court and )ok upon tn mselves the administration f public affairs. And Court street. Ieither handsome nor spacious, though may suggest the narrowness of these incere and God-fearing magistrates, to his day reminds us of the terrors of he law and the punishment meted Di1f l