The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-01

I nephew is the present lieutenant gov | ernor of New York state, elected last year.
 | The editor we'll remarks concerning i this elaborate and complete pubica- tion: "The outline given at the open ing of the second volume indicates the largeness of the plans upon which the modern history of the town and city was projected. It has been carried out With a fullness of detail hardly antici- pated even by the editor, when he pre- faced the schedule of topics for the guidance of his collabora tors. It is therefore safe to say that this history is more extended in It's scope and more exhaustive in details than any other town history thus far published. This is made | evident in the treatment given to the sev- l eral departments of the city govern ment and to special topics not hereto fore included in local histories, as shown in the chapters on street names, corpo- rations, inventors and their patents, college graduates, philanthropic insti- tutions. amusements and fraternities. 1 While the fact has never been lost sight of that Waterbury Is a great manufac- turing center, while the manufactories and the men who have controlled them have had justice done to them, at the same time a serious effort has been made to represent the many other phases of the life of a prosperous mod ern city. By following a plan con- structed with some reference to modern sociology, the history has become al most cyclopedic in it's character, and instead of being, as the prospectus pro- posed 8 work in two volumes of about 300 pages each, has grown into three volumes with total of 2,25o pages. The liberality of the publishers in furnish ing to subscribers so much more than was promised, deserves to be recognized here, and this may serve at the same | time as an explanation of the delay in the completion of the work"
 Among the portraits in the first vol ume is a fine frcntispiece on steel of the editor Rev. Joseph Anderson, D. D., and portraits. of Alvin Johnson, Josiah Bronson, Lemuel Cook and Samuel Hop kins, D. D..
 The second volume has for its frontis- piece on steel, portrait of the Hon. F. J. Kingsbury Gan etching and por- trait of John L. Atwood, George w Beach, superintendent of the Nauga- tuck railroad; Charles Benedict John l c. Booth, Edward l.. Bronson, Dr James Brown, Philo Brown, Robert Kingsbury Brown, William Brown Scovill M. Buckingham, Gordon w | Burnham, Franklin Carter, president oi | Williams college, formerly of Yale; P | w. Carter, Henry R. Chambers, Au- 1 gustus s. Chase, George H. Gloves, Minot S Crosby Theodore I. Driggs, James s. Elton, John P. Elton, Almon Far rell, Edward l.. Frisbie, Chauncey P Goss, Henry c. Griggs, Samuel w. S Hall Gan etching), David B. Hamilton Festus Hayden, Hiram W. Hayden Rufus E. Hitchcock, Israel Holmes Israel Holmes, 2d, Julius Hotchkiss | Green Kendrick, Charles D. Kingsbury Gan etching), Mark Leavenworth, Ed 1 ward c. Lewis, Douglas F. Maltby Charles B. Merriman, John Killings Alfred Platt, Clark M. Platt, William s. Platt, Thomas Porter, Archibald E. Rice. Francis T. Russell, Charles Scott 1 William H. Scovill Earl Smith, John E. Smith, Willard Spencer, Edward T Turner, Daniel Upson, Alfred Wells George w. Welton, Hobart V. Welton Nelson J. Welton, Leroy s. White Luther c. White, all of these steel DOT. traits; also portraits of Aaron Bene- dict Colonel James Brown, John Buck ingham; also nine portraits of half cen tury employees of the Scovill Manufac- turing Co.,; also twenty-two portraits oI the mayors of Waterbury from 1858 tC 1896; also portraits of James M. l. Scovill and Eli Terry, the latter o1 clock making fame.
 Portraits on steel in Volume three represent Irenus Atkins, Homer F Bassett, Henry I. Boughton, Bennett Bronson, Henry Bronson, Calvin H Garter, Jacob L. Clark, Erastus L. De Forest. Nathan Dikeman Colonel John B. Doherty, late commander of the Sec ond regiment, c. N. G.; Rev. J. H. Dug gan, Robert w. Hill Horace C. John son, Sturges M. Judd, ex-Congressmar Stephen w. Kellogg, M. c. Leaven worth, S. w. Magill Richard ". Micou John A. Mulcahy, L. l. Munson. Alfred North, Henry B. Peck, Gideon l.. Platt ! miscellaneous portraits as follows Sarah T. Abbott, Amos B. Alcott, Silas Bronson, E. B. Cooke, T. D. Dougherty T. F. Hendricken, Reuben Holmes, $ M. Hopkins, Ambrose Ives, Henry Wal ter Kingsbury, Julius J. B. Kingsbury James Lynch, J. T. McDermott, Farrel Martin, Edward M. Neville, Michae O'Neile, Mrs. Mary Peck, Mary Philena Peck, Joseph Porter, James Smyth John Trumbull, Lawrence Walsh; also ten portraits of the nineteenth century pastors of the First Congregations church.
 Besides these, there are a multitude of pictures of schools, churches, manu. factories, public buildings and of places of local historic interest. From these and other facts given it will readily be seen that this history is a work of rare merit. and it is hoped that this notice may appeal to many more to become pOssessors of so valuable a work-a work which has not yet remunerateG the publishers properly for the under taking, although it has deservedly ad- ded no little to the publishers already