The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-20

early part Of the nineteenth century
small shops were started making every
variety Of novelty, small machinery,
cloth, hardware, and, in fact, nearly all
of the products for which the state has
since become famous. There the Con-
necticut Yankee felt at home. His
ready adaptability, his ingenuity, his
persistence, his indomitable will. has
held him steady throughout many
changing conditions, and win hold him
steady into the distant future.
The speaker then referred at some
length to the progressiveness and &C
tivity which have worked the progress
of New Britain Waterbury, Hartford,
Bridgeport and other cities in the state.
Continuing, he said:
New Haven has led the state for so
long that there has been in the recent
past something of letup In the spirit
Of push-the aggressiveness which cap
| lures new enterprises-until within the
last two or three years.
We are the center of q magnificent
railroad system, which, am willing to
say, in spite of some opinions to the
contrary, is under wise and broad man
agement, and truly devoted to the de-
velopment of the enterprises along it's
lines.
We have fine harbor, now just be-
ing appreciated once more in this re-
vival Of public spirit. We have fine
physical conditions in the surrounding
| country, splendid opportunities for
workingmen's homes, a good govern
ment, good schools, and above ALL from
the manufacturing standpoint. one of
the finest markets in the world, for
many lines of what may be called half
manufactured products, within very
short distance by rail or water
This Chamber has my cordial admira-
ton and respect as a body Of solid,
wideawake enterprising men-men who
| are alive to the times and who realize
that New Haven deserves to grow, has
, every material advantage to make It
| grow and they are determined that il
| shall grow. There is one grave danger
in every city which has already reached
a degree oe prosperity greater than us
neighbors; it is the danger of thinking
| the work is done and that the future
! will take care of itself. Work is never
| done, and woe to any city, corpora ton
| or Their enterprise any kind, that pur-
sues the "let well enugh alone" policy.
| I have heard in years past, and even
recently, that New Haven was out of
date; that the college ran the town, that
| there was no enterprise here, generally
by citizens of this city too. I must adj
init that I believed it at f1rst-and no
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plant burned down one of your promi-
nent members came to me and to 9TH
ers in our company and began to drive
| things with an idea of saving the enter
prise For the city.
We are now working along a line
which will supplant many thousand
| tons year Of German products in a
| foreign market. Already we have made
Ia beginning, but we need an improve
ment OF our karbor to make the bust
ness permanently successful with it,
we ask odds Of no one.
People are apt to forget that for
every dollar made by the stockhlder of
a manufacturing company, from ten to
| twenty go into the pockets Of their own
employees, and the makers Of their raw
materials and manufacturing supplies.
Why, then, do they not try more gen.
! orally to help the people who are help
ing them?
The future of New Haven lies in your
hands. We all believe in the future
greatness of these United States, we all
believe in the future of Connecticut;
we all believe--or ought to believe-in
the future greatness Of New Haven.
Our city ought to be, can be. and will
be one of the greatest industrial centers
of this country, and Of the world, if we
all pull together and make it so.
Gentlemen, fill your glasses and let
us drink to the future of New Haven.
The last speaker of the evening was
Rev. Henry Baker, D. D., pastor of the
First Methodist church. He took for
his subject Our National Hopes and
J Fears"