The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-14

Lady guests taken on trolley ride from City Hall at 2:3O D. m.
 o'clock p. n1., business meeting.
 8 o'clock D. m, band concert on the green by the city.
 THURSDAY, AUGUST 16
 Business meeting at 10 o'clock a. m.
 Lady guests escorted to the Old Gen. ter church crypt and Yale university buildings at 1920 a. m., form the City Hall.
 Convention and ladies will assemble at 13O D. m. in City Hall.Take cars for a visit to the National Steel Wire cor poration, and if the weather Is favora- ble will board g. steamer for delight ful sail around the Thimble Islands, and stop will be made on the famous oyster grounds in the Sound.
 p. m, business meeting.
 Lady guests to meet at the City. Hall at z o'clockp n,, and take trolley cars for a visit to Savin Rock.
 FRIDAY, AUGUST 17.
 Business meeting at 10 o'clock a. m.
 Lady guests will take trolley ride at 10 o'clock a. m. from the City Hall.
 At 11;SO a. m. the convention lady guests and committee of arrange ments will take carriages for a ride to East Rock and Sdgewood uarks, re- turning to the City Hall. where trolley cars will be taken to Wilcox's restau- rant, Savin Rock, to partake of shore dinner (by the courtesy of the Game well company, music by Wells orches- tra), after which, all the visitors will be escorted to the White City.
 Weather permitting the entire pro- gramme will be carried out under the direction of the local committee.
 Other information contained in the programme follows:
 The Southern New England Tele- phone company also the American Telephone & Telegraph company, ad- wise that they are pleased to extend complimentary service from the termi- nal to be designated by the Southern New England Telephone company Court street, between Orange and State streets, before g a. m. and after { p. m.
 The Western Union Telegraph com pany advise that free transmission o1 family and social messages of the del egates to the convention is authorized
 The Postal Telegraph Cable company extend the courtesy of free service or personal social telegrams to the visi ting delegates.
 IA detail of f1remen and policemen vii be made to assist on all occasions wher required, A bureau of information VII be established at fire headquarters during the convention under the charge of Clerk Silas J. Metzger of the fire de- partment service.
 The crypt of the old Center church on the green will prove an interesting place for the visitors, and it will (if arrangements can be made) be open from 9 to 10 o'clock a. m. on each day of the convention. A detail from the Ipolice department will be in attend ance to instruct and carry out the or ders of the committee during the drive to the parks, etc,
 Citizens of New Haven and West Haven are requested to display the na tional flag during the three days of the convention, August 15, IS and r, an6 especially on Friday afternoon on tht route of the carriage drive.
 1 The convention hall on the second floor of the City Hall, and the hall fo, exhibits on the third floor, will be oper to visitors at all reasonable hours.
 A few "reminiscences of New Haver for cur visitors are printed as follows
 First settled by the Puritans. Johr Davenport and Theophllus Eaton, ii I163S nearly three hundred years ago and which then formed the New Ha ven colony. The laws or Moses be came the first laws of New Haven.
 New Haven hid the three judges Edward Whalley, William Goffe ant John Dixwell, who were condemned f, death by King Charles L of England when it was determined to trv him fo treason in 1649. They, the judges, wer afterward obliged to escape from Eng land to Boston. In 1860, and to Ney Haven in 1861, being pursued by Kin Charles IT., and upon their arrival ii New Haven they received a heart, welcome by MT. Davenport and othe friends While the kings officers wer searching for the three regicides the were hid in the rocks at West Rock what is now called the Judges Cave
 John Davenport preached the frs sermon in New Haven after landing and the First church (Old Center. Q the Green), was established in 1888. In 1660, the Hopkins grammar schoC was started in New Haven. Jereuia Peck was It's first teacher. His galar consisted of thirty bushels of whea lone barrel of park, two barrels of bee lforty bushels of Indian corn, thirt
 bushels of peas, one firkin of butte
 one hundred pounds of flax and trirt bushels of oats. This school has eve , since been a preparatory school fc college education.
 Yale college was founded in TOO ; Branford, Conn, and located in say 2 brook, Conn, in 1701. It moved to Ne l Haven in 1716.
 The old green was formerly calle the market place In 1774 the hbert } lpole was set up, In 1776 Captain Ben, , Idiot Arnold marched his little conps 3 ny, the Second company, Governor t Foot Guard, from the old green lCambridge, Mass,