The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12
PROGRESS OF NEW HAVEN
BISHOP.E ELECT LINES SPEAKS OF
 CITY,S GROWTH

l auaFteE DL NcutuEy NAEAu ucIlStOuH
 Activit:-some Old Landmarks That Have DisappeaFed-Poor Judgment of l Adverse Critics.
 Bishop-elect Lines spoke before the | Chamber of Commerce last evening of | the changes which had come in New
 Haven in the quarter of a century in | which his work had been here. Public l improvements as seen in the streets, in | more business-like municipal adminis- l tration, were named. The great growth of the university with the buildings erected under Presidents Dwight and
 Hadley, the Historical society building, | the new churches of every denomina- 1 ton, the Organized Charities, the pub | lie library, the dispensary and hospi- | tals, the new buildings for business, | were spoken of, and the growth of the I city was called reasonable and health 1 ful. New Haven can hardly be made | to grow as some western cities, nor is 1t I desirable. Men come to make their homes here and they call New Haven slow and unprogressive. They tell us | of what is done in other cities to bring material prosperity. But they forget | the strength of our old traditions and
 how much we would lose if complete break was made with them. If New
 Haven is not as favorable place for 1 business as some other cities, it yields l to none as a place where home may ] be made The advantages here ill the I 1. eyrl l<And probably those persons who have l invested their surplus earnings in New
 Haven enterprises are quite as well sat isfied as those who have sought invest
 ment in remote places. .5 I The history of New Haven ought to
 appeal to every men living here be cause of its great interest and great l importance in the larger history of tse country. The city in which one lives is not a place simply where to earn ones 1 living, where to eat and lodge and die. l It is a place where to care for the high l CT interests of life, where to let and mind and the imagination have oppor- l tunity, ,4,, l A good text for sermon or address 1 in New Haven would be The Streets of the City" for they call up the names
 of men not simply of local celebrity names memorable in New Haven his tory, but names which have large place l in the national history, 7 Names like
 Dixwell, Gcffe and Whalley, Davenport, Gregson and Lamberton read our I thoughts back to the first days of the colony. York reminds us of the part of
 the town in which settlers from York shire made their homes, So the mem
 cry of the great struggle across the sea
 for civil and religious liberty is pre-
 served in our city streets. The captain l of the ship which bore away, never to
 make port, a large part of the young I colony's wealth, and the story of the l phantom ship are rightly remembered. I Names like Sherman, Humphrey, Franklin, Washington, Brown, Warren, l Wooster call up a later and heroic time. The succession of honored names
 continues with Whitney and Trumbull, Day and Dwight Webster and Ed wards, Gregory and Foote, Hallock and i Daggett, Winthrop and Woolsey. Oth-. 4 CT names like those of Chapel and Church. Brewery and Ferry, Wall and Court preserve some tradition. How
 George and Grown survived the break | with King George and royal supremacy lit is hard to say. The names of our
 streets call up our history and men I ought not to go through them only 1 thinking of their business s,*t And what a history comes to mind as the names are spoken, the history of
 that early attempt to found here an eo- I clesiastical state with citizenship lim- 1 tied to church membership; the work 1 of Ezekiel Cheever, a name now hap oily given to one of our public schools, l the first great schoolnaaster of New l England; the attempt to found colony
 on the Delaware; the long deferred
 founding of a college that the resources
 of New England might not be divided while the college at Cambridge was so I weak.
 The second century brought us the re- l ligious controversies and then the l French and Indian wars.and finally the l War of Independence and the estab- l 1ishment of the republic. And New
 Haven men had no mean part in, all l that history, and we are the poorer if we forget them. In the industrial de- ve1opment of the country there is also
 a great succession of names which New
 Haven ought not to forget-Whitney,
 Goodyear, Sheffield, Farnam, Trow-
 bridge, Hooker, Winchester, English,
 Hotchkiss-to name only those gone l from us.
 l We are hardly warranted in appropri-
 ating for the city the glories of Yale,
 but we may we'll remember that her
 twenty thousand sons have had their
 home here and have carried the remem- | brance of the city with them to the
 ends of the earth. The presence of a
 great university makes not always the 1 favorable condition for business, as
 Oxford and Cambridge and German
 university towns remind us. But the l crowning glory of New Haven is it's
 great university, and one may note
 with satisfaction the larger placing of
 the university at the service of the
 community. The relation between the l two, to the loss of both, has not been as | close as it ought to be. Every man who
 loves the city and every man who loves
 the university will do what lies in his
 power to increase the good understand | ing and mutual goodwill.
 I When men speak slightingly of the
 city as slow let the answer be that there are other things to be thought
 about and that theirs is a narrow judg-
 ment There is no better place in which
 to live for a person who has high ideal of what life should be. There are