The Newtown bee., 1905-02-17

tion. It may with candor and honesty
 be said that their reputation and pros-
 perity is largely the result of the strong
 mutual interest which both the en-
 ployers and the employees feel in the
 business, and of the good feeling and | kindliness of spirit which, pervading both the members of the firm and | those who have long been associated l with it, have in the hard times served | to weld hearts together instead of sev- ering them. William H. Barnum,
 who afterwards attained national dis tinctiOn as Congressman and Senator | from this state, and as manager of the | campaign which resulted in the elec- | tion of Cleveland in 1884 became even better known, as young man drove his team with loads of iron to Pough- keepsie and by actual experience knew hard work and could sympathize with the tOiler. In the hard times of the ''seventies," this company kept it's men at work, enabling them to keep the wolf from the door, when other l x down their works. It is such men as
 these who have made the name of | Connecticut and New England honor
 able and our nation the peer of the
 older England beyond the sea.
 Along the pleasant elm -fringed ave-
 nue which appropriately goes by the
 name of Elm street, ore notes the
 smooth and grassy lawns W welltrmmed
 hedges and cleAnIy burders The citi
 zens of Lime R ok pride themselves on
 having the neatest and cleanliest
 country streets in the state. Coming
 into the town, passing the Brazie
 house, (perhaps the oldest in the vil-
 lage), which stands on the crest of the
 hill, one sees the white shafts of the
 village cemetery at his right, and far
 across the valley to the left old
 Sharon mountain smiles protect
 ingly down, dominating all the land
 scape. On that side of the valley
 through which flows the turbid Sal
 mon Fell-Kill, is nature in all her
 primitive grandeur; on this side the
 simple art of man beautifying his
 home and surrounding. In the angle
 of the roads opposite the place where
 the ''forefathers of the hamlet sleep,"
 stands Trinity Episcopal church,
 beautiful building of fawn-colored fire
 stone of which a city might we'll be
 proud. It is vertically monument to
 the zeal and labors of those saintly
 Christian women, Mrs Charlotte A.
 Barnum and Mrs Lucy Ann Richard
 SOD, whose names will ever be cher
 ished in Lime Rock. These thought
 ful women, seeing the need of church
 in the community, because the me ther
 church of St John in Salisbury was so
 far away, bent there energies toward
 securing funds for the erection of a
 church which should be the home of
 the people and the center of the relig-
 ious life of the community. As a re-
 suit of their labors, in 1870 Trinity
 church was erected and has since
 grown into one of the strongest dis tinctively rural parishes in Connecti- .. cut. Within the past few years it has been beautifully redecorated within. Hard wood floors have been laid and many costly and appropriate memor- ials have been given. Among these . may be mentioned the superb eagle 1l lectern given in memory of Senator ', and Mrs Barnum, the eagle on which !. . was carved from life; the memorial al. tar of quartered oak, the substantial commemoration of Mrs Lucy Ann 'i Richardson; the vases and font cover, ,, which keep in mind Helen Gilbert, the Il little granddaughter of MT and Mrs C. ' w. Barnum. The most recent gift tc ' the church is magnificent pulpit ot e brass and oak, most chaste and simple
 in design, in memory of Mrs Lucy ', Caroline Richardson Harwood, daugh. Il ter of MT and Mrs M. B. Richardson y and wife of MT Robert Winch liar :, wood of Natick, Mass. The afternoon U sun, shining through the numerou! u tinted walls enhances the beauty ane Il quiet dignity of this house of God u which stirs the soul to worshipfu 70 mood and brings back to recollection - |, the good lives of those whose name 1' will ever be remembered here, as thei virtues and labors are recalled.
 Any town might we'll be proud o u the public-spirited citizens who resid II in the comfortable homes along Eln V street. In succession stand the resi- lS dences of N. A. McNeil, Charles w Barnum and M. B. Richardson, inter
 spersed with cosy cottages, venerabl Ill homesteads and succeed farm houses l' many of which have borne the weathe Ill brunt of the flying years.
 'e In the heart of Lime Rock are locat " ed the car wheel and grey iron foun 10 dries, and adjacent thereto the ma 'o chine shop. The old inn, greatl changed since the early days of tn
 century, and now known as the Rock: ,S Dell Hotel, stands facing the genera D offices of the Barnum, Richardsol h Company. Just across the bridge ar the old homesteads of William H. Bar | mum and Leonard Richardson, embow . cred among the elms that arch th \ l Icfr ,