The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-11
WHE WOOSTER HOUSE.
The Home off Mary Clap Wooster.

| Al llB AtOIlRS or NANEy Gihp NuVhAoEs
 The Mothers Journal of this city for
 June. among much other interesting
 matter, has for it's leading article the
 following regarding "The Home of
 Mary Clap Wooster" by Miss A. L, Hitchcock:
 Among the few remaining landmarks of the town, the General Wooster house on Wooster street, few doors from Chestnut, stands as one of the most
 important and interesting. Substan- tially, it is the same dwelling in which the brave general spent so many years of his life, for beyond the necessary repairs and the raising of the old fash toned hip-roof, the building has under gone none of the remodeling process which Is so disastrous to things histori- cal.
 General Wooster removed from his George street home-the house which has recently been demolished to give place to a school building-in the mid- dle of the last century, and the rest of his home life is associated with his Wooster street home.
 When the local chapter of the Daugh- l ters of the American Revolution. was founded here a few years ago, it was named in honor of the sweet, loyal and patriotic wife of General Wooster, Mary Clap Wooster, the daughter of President Clap of Yale college. Immediately interest in the Wooster sIy A1,,,-, -,H in the minds of many people, was in- stantly awakened, and frequent are the pilgrimages now made to the famous residence,
 As the object of the Mary Clap Woos- ter chapter is ''to assist the National Society of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution in perpetuating the memory and the spirit of the men and women who achieved American inde- pendence, by the acquisition and pro- tection of historical spots, and the erection of monuments; by the engage ment of historical research in relation to the revolution and the publication of it's results; by the preservation of docI- ments and relics, and of the records of the individual services of revolutionary soldiers, sailors and patriots" it Is but natural that the two homes of General Wooster and his patriotic wife should become objects of the deepest interest and veneration among the members of the society.
 Relics of the houses have been eager ly sought for not h a spirit of vandal- ism, but that while in no way harmlng the houses, they might be preserved and placed where they would meet with a just appreciation of their true value.
 In the collection of these relics the society has been most fortunate. The charter frame is composed of an oaken beam taken from the attic of the house on Wooster street, and embellished by wrought iron nails with which the heavy timber of the framework of the dwelling was held in place. Itis hard ly necessary ttoesay the frame is prized but little less than the charter which 1t incloses.
 But a short while ago, through the kindness of one of New Haven's influ- ential citizens, the regent of the chapter was presented with a beautiful gavel made from 8 piece of the oaken balus- trade of the George street home of General Wooster. The house on Woos- ter street is at the present time used as tenement. It is in good state of preservation, and seems destined to out < last many of the fiimsy and ornate dwellings which have grown up around 1t.