The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-13

zine will treat. No magazine illustrates
the beautiful things of outdoor world
so well.
The Woman's Home Companion
(springfeld, Ohio), for February, is I'M
usually rich and timely. 1t has a
charming cover design-a skating scene
by Charles Grunwald. Feature articles
that will interest every patriotic Amer
lean reader are "Lincoln's Neglected
Birthplace and "The Birthplace of the
American Flag" Other features are
''How Railroads Fight Snow" What
the Congregationalists Are Doing for
the Good of Mankind" and a patriotic
picture by George Gibbs illustrating
one of Paul Jones' greatest battles
The fiction includes a number of COM
pleted stories. Mrs. Herrick's cooking
articles. Martha Workings Answers,
Miss Sweets American Girl'' and Miss
Kings Home Health Exercises are
some Of the titles that suggest the
value Of the contents.
The February number of the Ameri-
can Boy is before US. 1t is rich in il
lustration, story and anecdote and full
of practical and helpful hints for
American boys. The friends of this
unique periodical will be pleased to
know that it has passed the one hun
dred thousand mark in circulation
truly a great achievement. A full
page illustration of an ice boat going
at full speed adorns the front cover. 1t
is an inspiring picture. The seventh
installment Of the life of Napoleon Bon
aparte, written by the editor of the
American Boy, for boys, appears in this
issue. The issue has many stories and
articles of special interest to boys, be-
sides the usual special departments for
boys. In March will start the last seri-
al story written by the late George A.
Henty, the best-known writer for boys
in the world. The Sprague Publishing
Company, Detroit, Mich. One dollar
year.
"For a Maiden Brave" by Chauncey
c. Hotchkiss; illustrated in colors by
Frank T. Merrill 70 mo-; 1913 PIP.
Cloth, $1.50. D. Appleton &, Co., pub
fishers, New York. In this new book
by Mr.. Hotchkiss the hero is carried
through section rich in historical re-
collection. He makes his departure
from Yale college; in fact from THE
Connecticut Hall'' known for years as
the old South Middle the only one of
the original college buildings still
standing. From there the story takes
10 bn 3at I'll
Water street in New Haven. In foot
note Mr.. Hotchkiss informs his readers
that the house, but slightly altered,
still stands. He evidently refers to the
exterior, as the interior walls were
taken out some years ago to make
room for the storage of lumber. Even
the exterior has suffered. At present
ther$ is a. hole cut through and through
the structure from the front door, large
enough for the admission of loaded
trucks, and the grounds before the
house are utilized for piling lumber.
Besides it's interest as the old home
of Americas arch traitor the building
has an added one as having been the
residence of Noah Webster, the lexico-
grapher, and in it he began his great
dictionary, though the work was fin
ished elsewhere. In it's day the house
was fine one as it faced the waters
Of the bay, which came close to it. and
it was not surpassed as a residence by
any structure in New Haven. All eff
forts to preserve the building have
failed owing to the stigma attached to
the name of Arnold. The spirit of en-
nifty still lives though the act that oc-
casions it took place more than a CEN
fury ago
The next historical point at which
Mr.. Hotchkiss' hero is active is the old
Jones House." or Tryon Hail. still
standing at Massapequa, L. I. In the
olden time the situation was known as
Fort Neck, South Oyster Bay. This
| house was built in ITO by the father of
Judge Jones, the latter prominent
Tory, and this is one Of the best pre-
served historical landmarks existing to-
day in the United States, Even the
stumps of the old trees, which have
long since fallen are preserved in their
places. Every effort has been made to
| retain the original air of colonial ele-
gance, and the great hail. or more pro-
perly, the parlor has been practically
| unaltered in the arrangement of it's fur
| niture. A modern piano has taken the
place Of the spinet, and ANTICIPATED
chairs and tables given way to those of
| later model, but the pair of antlers pre-
scented to the Judge by Sir William
johnson still hang over the door, the
royal commission still stands on it's
easel, framed as of yore, and the old
family portraits, queer specimens of
art, still grace the walls as they have
done for nearly one hundred and fifty
years.
The exigencies of Mr.. Hotchkiss' sto-
ry make the historical raid upon the
house by the Americans appear to have
taken place in August, 1878, but in fact
| this final kidnapping of Judge Jones oc-
| Cured on November 9th, near midnight
and while the judge was entertaining
| number of friends. When Captain
Hawley approached the house with his
| men and saw it with it's white shin
gled sides glimmering under the moon
| beams he remarked that it looked like
a palace, and to the poor rustics of Con-
| necticut it probably did. The house
still remains in the family, and so great
is their appreciation of its historical in
terest that when bit of woodwork or
a shingle decays it is at once replaced
| by one in the exact form of the origi-
nal.