The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-21
New Haven Fifty Years Ago.

To the Editor of the Journal and Courier: The following article is from the
 Journal and Courier of September 25, | 1854 and will no doubt, interest many | of your readers, as it gives impressions 1 of New Haven as it was nearly half
 century ago:
 Cor the Journal and> Courier) IMPRESSIONS OF NEW HAVEN. Messrs Editors Through the col
 umns of your excellent Journal pass ing sOjourner among you would most gladly and gratefully record some fleet ing and deeultory impressions of the
 goodly and beautiful Elm City" I am prompted to do this by two pleasing
 considerations; the first of which is,
 that I may give some slight expression of grateful acknowledgement for the pure and elevated enjoyments, the lofty pleasures, and the never to be forgotten delightful hours, which have in rapid successou} filled up the bright and sun ny days of this glorious autumnal sea- son, The second motive is, an earnest desire that all other travellers in this beautiful and favored land-all lovers of the truly beautiful-should, as I have done, finger for weeks in this charming, rural, quiet city, in the con- temptation of the grand and imposing prospects, the varied and inspired scenes in nature, and the noble produc- tions of intellectual and moral enter prise which do here so remarkably abound
 Having but recently escaped from the crowded streets, the unceasing din and confusion of the great modern Babylon I came here well prepared to appreciate and enjoy the rural pleasures and quiet seclusion so amply afforded in the fla nous City of Elms" And I have been no less agreeably surprised at the ex- tent, spaciousness and rural grandeur of this model city than gratitied at wit messing it's admirable capacity for im- provement, and it's natural adaptation to the physical, commercial, moral and intellectual prosperity of a populous city The environs of New Haven com prise a great variety of soil, surface and scenery, yet comparatively in state of nature, but eminently adapted to building purposes, and eligibly loca- ted in regard to health, seclusion. beauty and convenience.
 What a striking contrast is presented between this delightful suburban city and the great overgrown, corrupted, presidential metropolis! This contrast is most signally visible on the Sabbath Here the Sabbath Is universally ob- served and reverenced, and a holy and impressive solemnity reigns over the city The Sabbath in New England is a day which gladdens the heart-it Is cheelng and beautiful sight to behold hundreds of devout worshippers quietly crossing the spacious green to their re- spective churches The citizens of New Haven are emphatiCally church. going people, and from the number, elegance and commodioueness of the church edi- fees, this city might with propriety be styled the city of churches. Some of these structures, for architectural beau ty are not surpassed by any in the Un- ion. Several are furnished in a luxuri- ous manner, with costly chandeliers and fine, highly polished marble pulpits, and surmounted by lofty spires of beautiful symmetry, chaste and elegant model. Three more fine church edifices are now in course of erection.
 New Haven is pleasant for situation. On the south of the city stretches out Long Island Sound with its fresh sea breezes, and on the east and west are presented lofty green clad hills, which command an expansive and delightful prospect-a glorious panorama of well cultivated farms, gardens, wood and water Nature is here lavish of her bountee, and the products of the sea, field and forest are furnished in perfec- tion and abundance
 This favored city is almost entirely exempt from those pestilential scourges which are even now spreading terror and desolation through some of the southern cities. To invalids and 1ov- CTS of quiet seclusion this rural city of- fers the most desirable attractions, and ~------------------------