Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-04-16
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
IN YANKEELAND.
of the People Acts
Worthy of Emulation.


DEAR HERALD: A week or more
spent in this State is pleasure.
have been in the towns Of New Haven,
Milford, Seymour, Naugatuck, Bran
ford, Guilford, Essex and Portland.
To write up all would fill the Herald
several times, yet there are many lit
tie items which I have jotted down
which may be of interest, and they
will include references to several OF
the different towns.
Connecticut is the home of the
Yankee. Here he is found in his
purity and he is bright, shrewd, COM
panionable. / said che" "She" is
his superior. When / said to Miss
Adelaide Finch last summer that the
Yankee school marin is the brightest
thing OBJ earth, did not fully COM
prehend the import of the remark.
One wants to sharpen his wits or else
keep his mouth shut when she en-
cages him in conversation. Add to
her culture, beauty, grace, dignity
and it is easy to understand why old
bachelors are so rare here.
New Haven is celebrated as the
seat of Yale University, one of the
greatest institutions OF learning in
the world, but scarcely less celebrated
is the Green" beautiful little park
in the center of the city. Its orna-
mentation is elm trees, some of which
are $50 years old. They are large,
the largest ever saw.
All New England towns have
Greens. They are usually sur
rounded by elm trees, while sugar
naples shade the interior, which is
covered with blue grass and with the
exception of having the boulders re-
moved are otherwise au naturale.
One of the pleasing features of most
of the towns is their public libraries.
At Milford is the Taylor Memorial
Library" at Naugatuck, the Howard
Whittemore Library" at Branford, a
splendid structure costing half mill
lion, the gift of Mr.. Timothy BLACK
stone, President of the Chicago &
Alton Railway, as memorial to his
father, the late James Blackstone. 1t
is Tennessee marble of a pink shade
and very beautiful. The Naugatuck
buildingfs granite and quite impos-
ing. Mr.. Whittemore also presented
his town with a hundred thousand
dollar school house, built a cut stone
wall around the cemetery and con-
templates erecting a fine hotel.
Connecticut schools are par excel
lence. 3ranford, with 1000 pupils,
spends $4,000 annually. The gen
eral plan is the same as that of Mar
tinsburg-the grades and a central
high school-but our teachers are
handicapped with insufficient build
ings and apparatus.
There are many historical points of
general interest. At Guilford is the
oldest house in New England. 1t is
stone structure and was designed
by and erected for Winthrop, one OF
the Puritan Fathers, in 1859. The
Colonial Danes have purchased it
and will see that it is preserved.
In the crypt of a church on the
New Haven Green" repose the re-
mains of COTE. one of the judges who
condemned Charles I, of England .
He, with his coadjutors, fled from
England and went in hiding here
after the Restoration. "Savin Rock, "
near New Haven, is pointed out as
their place of abode.
Naturally, Connecticut is not land
of promise. The country is broken
and literally covered with stones.
The land is poor and nothing but the
industry and frugality of the people,
combined with their remarkable in
telligence, has made the State what
it is. The Naugatuck Valley, in
which are the thriving towns OF
Derby, Ansonia, Seymour, Manga
tuck and Waterbury, all within an
hours ride, is as rough and forbidding
as the North Branch OF the Potomac,
above Piedmont. Ansonia supplies
the world with clocks; Waterbury
" heller & Wilson sewing machines
and the celebrated watches of that
name, beside almost innumerable
malleable iron, brass and copper
works, not to mention wooden, cotton
and knitting mills. The river is very