The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-26
HARTFORD WELCOME.
For the New Century-Ancient Bell
VIII Ring once More

Will Ring once More.
Hartford, Dec 25.-There is going to
be a celebration in Hartford on the eve
of the New Year and the new century
The Hartford Times says:
1T is expected that there will be a
grand illumination of the City Hall and
City Hall square, and appropriate
music will be a prominent feature of
the occasion.
1t is proposed to have the Illumination
begin as the clocks of the city strike
twelve.
There is a bell in the cupola Of the
City Hall, which a great majority of
the people here have never heard. 1t
was last rung on the occasion of the
Inauguration of Governor Ingersoll for
the shird time in May, 1876. There IS
no rope attached to the pell, but the bell
will probabl ring in the new century
in Hartford.
Simultaneously it Is propcsei to have
nineteen strokes sounded IN the fire
gong in Pearl street and on all the
church bells of the city.
Other features Of an appropriate rec
ignition of the beginning Of the century
are under consideration.
Persons who want to go t. sleep at
the usual hour in Hartford, on Decem.
Der 81, 1900, will probably be able to do
50. But there viii De plaau-y of people
who will prefer TO sit up AM help celc-
brate the OCCASION
The Hartford Courant says ed.to-
rally:
THE Courant quite agrees with it's
esteemed contemporary, the Hartford
Times, that there should be public dem
onstration to celebrate the outgoing of
the nineteenth century and the incom-
ing of the twentieth. None of us TOOK
any part in the corresponding event a
century ago. and none Of us will take
part in that Of a hundred years from
now It's now or never for us all. Let
it be now.
One day slides into the next III about
the same way whether the change
marks the end of ii week, a month, or
year; it is light, then dark, then light
again and the new day is here But
there is something solemn in the end of
a century, for centuries are our largest
measure Of time for practical uses, and
a few of them reach back a long way.
And the century now closing has been
in many ways remarkable. 1t would be
ignorance and boastfulness to contend
that it has been the most memorable
that the world has ever seen, but it
has done more for human
comfort than any other, that is for
comfort.
No livelier appeal can be made to the
than to call on it for sug-
gestions regarding the changes that the
next century will see in the ways peo-
pie live. So when we look back and
look ahead, for the midnight of Decem-
Der 81, 1900, the call for celebratio is
there. We do not believe the public
want another Fourth of July perform
ance. But the suggestion is very sensi-
bic that at five minutes before midnight
all lights in town should go out and
stay out for five minutes and that then
at the call of the fire bell there should
be a general illumination, public and
PiiN"tS. hiC Ne'Pit''' 'HS Wy Ii'ii
high buildings and low buildings, Off
ces residences and everything else
where lights can be set or lit, should
blaze out at the moment our clocks
strike the new century. Let it see us at
arrival and let us see it, No time for de-
ay in changing centuries, and no reas-
On for taking such an important step
in the dark. We can wait few days
for the details, but let us do something
10 it publicly, and do it ereditably This
IS our only chance"