The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-01
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 ~naises Tn New Haven Since The fegan
 Their Business Life Here.
 A half century is a long str Ah of 'iine to look forward to, and b gness career of half century is one of Keep tlonal interest and rarity. iChapel street New Haven's greatest artert of mercantile trade, has not one mdrchant who has been in busiaess round ed out half century. That IS to say, that the street has not a single metchbnt now who has been in business 6n the street uninterruptedly for half a cen tury The only one who approaches near that limit is our esteemed towns man, John E. Bassetts~ MT. Bassett will next month entci upon his fiftieth year as Chapel street business man. It is -ppW eseouS forty-nihe years since he, an active, enterprising young man, full of hope, commendahle spirit and bright antlcipations set foot on Chapel street as a participant in it's busy Whirl 6F activities, and a circumstance which Is also ot great rarity is this-that all of that forty-nine years of business life mas been spent under one roof, in the same spot, the same business location. MT. Bassett is no longer in the hey 1ay of youth, yet he is far from being d lag gard in business, far from being what IS popularly rated as old. He is still in his prime, energetic, thorough and ,act- tive, though not necessarily confined to business as closely as of yore, his son, one of our most promising younger mer- chants, taking an active and important share in the conduct of the business and MT. Bassett is still young conlbar- atively, as he began his business life when only fifteen years of age and is now but sixty-five. Long may he live and prosper
 We have among us, still active and daily a visitor upon Chapel street, upon bright and cheery days in good wealth CT, an ex-merchant who saw half qen- tury of business life on Chapel street. This gentleman is MT. A. c. Wilcox, now an octogenarian but very active, bodily and mentally, for one of his years, MT. Wilcox was for half a cen- tury a dry goods merchant of Chapel street and devoted unremittingly to his business during all that long period, except when he combined mercantile activity with his duties as a memberiof the legislature, representing the town of Madison, and at another time as senator, representing the Madison dis tridt; and Mir Wilcox recalls with pleasure the fact that old Madison held him in such esteem that. though a strongly republican town, it swerved aside from it's republican record and sent him, a thorough and un6inchirg democrat, to the general assembly, the fact being thus proven that there was one democrat at least, in long period of time, who could carry Madison for the democratic party. 4
 Among our townsmen who are ap- preaching the fifty-year limit as Chapel street merchants is Edward Malley. Mr Mal1ey can point with pardonabA pride to the figures over the broad en, trance to the Malley. Neely & Co. dry goods emporium, which tell of the fact that it is now considerably over forty years since he made his debut as a Chapel street merchant, and almost from the start electrified the street by his original, enterprising and live busi-, ness methods his appreciation of theI immense value of judicious advertising and his rapid advance to a most four ishing and renowned position as one of the leading merchants of the street.
 Outside of Chapel street there is one of our citizens whose business record passes the half century line. This is our old and esteemed citizen, Benajah Douglass, whose business career is one of exceptional length and who can re- call with ease the old times when our now big city had no railroad communi- cation to New York, and who remem' bers one winter, which was one of eX- ceptionaI severity, when the harbor was frozen solid clear to the lighthouse, and when ships had to unload their car goes at South End on account of the fee embargo He recalls the old stage coach days of travel between New York and Boston Though the big manufac- turing business of the Douglass has ip- later years been conducted by his-sGns owing to his advancing years, Yet the patriarchal ex-alderman is vet among us daily, and though tbe(Douglass firm has met with misfortune, a situation owing to adverse circumstances that su- perior ability and devotion in the man a2eTneflC or et large DuSlHG5S llOuSG WcS unable to withstand yet there is hope that this big and valuable industry will be saved to the city and the venerable townsman may live to see it re-estab- lished and aid to the extent of his pow CTS yet many years.
 Visiting New Haven a day or two since was a former New Havener, MT H. H. Snow, who was widely known and prominent in business circles here for twenty-five years or more. He was the longer part of that time engaged in the confectionery business on Chapel street below the bridge, and in the rear of his store was his confectionery man ufactory. MT Snow has now been New York confectioner for years in company with his younger son, Fred erick. They are located on Fulton street, cofper of Park Row, and are doing a fine business. A large share of their patrons are noted business men of the great metropolis. Mr. Snow is q s active, alert and cheery as a young man of forty, although he is now about sixtv-nire years of age. Prosperity has