The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-29
THE CORNER STONE LAID
or EAST HAVEN'S TEN THOUSAND
DOLLAR SCHOOL BUILDING,

Scene at the Corner Stone Laying Yester-
day and the charlottesville Contents of
| tho Box in the Corner Stone.
Yesterday was an ideal spring day,
and. although the sun was not alto
gether in a cloudless sky, yet theweath-
er was well nigh perfect.
AT II o'clock in the forenoon the cor
ner stone OF East Haven's new school
building was laid with the assistance
of Mr.. Redtleld, one of the contractors.
The principals We're Messrs, Thompson,
Andrews and Bradley, chairman of the
building committee, and presiding Off
Ger Of the Union school district officials,
and secretary of the board of education,
in the order named.
L. d. Chidsey, native of East Ha-
ven, born within a stones throw of
Lake Saltonstall, gave the box, which
was covered by a granite slab from the
East Haven shores of Long Island
sound.
The services were transformations.
When the box was placed in position
heads were uncovered and the secre-
tary of the school board said. May
| Gods blessing attend those who assem-
BILE here"
When the school building is formally
set apart for school purposes. which
will be in September next, the exercises
1 will be of noteworthy character
A portion of the contents of the box,
which was prepared gratuitously for
the occasion by Sheahan & Groark of
New Haven, is as follows:
The name of every scholar in the pub
lie schools (attested by the autograph
of the teachers) at S:15 o'clock on the
27th inst; letter from Henry 4.
Thompson, Esq, chairman of the build
ing committee: the roster of the New
Haven Grays; state report of the state
board of education; J statistical ac-
count Of the public schools in East Ha-
ven by c. w. Bradley, secretary; doc
ument from the state board of health;
an original notice of school meeting
dated January 80, 1896; list of officers
and students of Yale university; cata-
! logue of the State Normal Training
school; manual of the Congregational
church in East Haven; list Of church
officers, with the names Of the two pas
tors; annual town reports of New Ha-
| Ven, East Haven and Branford; public
Facts, state of Connecticut, 1896; Con-
4 necticut School Register; Fast day
proclamation of Governor Coffin; class
day exercises, Hillhouse high school;
Beckwith's Almanac, 1896; a copy each
of the Journal and Courier, Evening
Register, Morning News, Daily Palla-
| dium the Evening Leader, the New
Haven Union, the Shore Line Times,
The Branford Opinion, Connecticut Re-
publcaner, the Catholic News, New
York Tribune and the Journal of Com
\ merce; list of the East Haven town
officers; democratic town ticket, also
republican ticket; program of
Washington's birthday anniversary,
celebrated at the Hyperion theater on
Saturday, February %; the name of
! large taxpayers in New Haven, April
81, 1885, the autograph of Mrs. An
4 drews, postmaster in East Haven; and
q copy of the Daily Florida Citizen
The following is copy of Mr.. Thomp-
sons letter:
East Haven, Conn, April 27, 1896.
To whom it may concern: Ground
was broken for this school building
on Wednesday morning, April %, 1896,
by Leonard 3. Smith, and the excava-
ton was made by him and Edmund B,
Woodward. Brown & Berger are the
architects, and r. Redfeld & Son sub
contractors for the building of the
foundation walls. L. V. Treat & Sons,
mason builders; d. c. Sperry carpenter
and joiner, and the Foskett & Bishop
Co, plumbers and dealers in heating
apparatus, all OF whom are the con-
tractors with the Union school dis
trict for the building, and all of the SUI
perstructure. Ebenezer Gilbert and
Albert Forbes are associated with me
as the building committee.
HENRY T. THOMPSON,
Chairman of Building Committee.
The site, which is, Of course, all i'm
portant in the location of school houses,
is picturesque, and all the environments
most excellent
In fact it is one of the best in the
district and the town. 1t commands on
the west a fine view of the Quimby tract
| du, llt ulSlOllC btdCOil Till. EDSSiDIy
1t is not equal in every respect to one on
the Marietta Forbes land west Of the
Episcopal church, and it is considered
by many evident that the owner Of this
splendid property made serious mis-
take in being q factor in placing il
south of the stone church. The like OPP
portunity to increase the value of prop
erty on "the hill' will never occur
again.
Real estate on Thompson avenue and
in the vicinity of the proposed new
school building has increased 20 pei
cent. in value during the last three
months, and is destined to be the most