The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-24

OGhtb AOl1dpo0l. SoIlt 4lelI put lCE
bottom dollar into the pool and found
thereby that an empty pocket was the
worst of crimes. So when enterprises
offered that proved of great benefit to
other towns, she looked into the ditch
where SO many bright silver dollars
(big as platers in those days. had been
painted, and seeing no show of cow
pom crop, let them pass by, saying, like
the old rat who had been niped, 1T
looks like mighty good meal, but may
be trap under it all the same" Ex-
perience makes towards of rats as well
as men. In fact New Haven in linanl
cial enterprises has been faint-hearted
and weak kneed from that day. Who
can blame her when we consider the
gloom attending the failure Of her first
great enterprise?
She had exalted herself to the sew
entn heaven Of city pride, expecting to
draw the entire trade of the north from
Canada to the north pole to her port,
leaving the streets of Springfield, Hart
ford and other towns to grow up with
huckleberry bushes.
And SO might it have been had the
right man with energy, perseverance
and business gumption taken tAe helm.
Basins were made, wharves were
built in expectation of immense foreign
shipment,
1t was a grand scheme to run a canal
through the natural valley into north
ern New England, receiving the pro-
ducts of a vast country with the trade
of its towns and cities 1t would have
been to New Haven what the Erie ca
nal was to New York, but we had no
Dewitt Clinton to shoulder the load.
Man proposes; fate disposes." Our
daddies knew how to promote, but they
We're not up to the present game, viz,
of promoting with the pocket Of the
other fellow.
REMEMBER DITCH GRIPPE"
When it was proposed at town
meeting to subscribe for stock in the
Housatonic and Naugatuck railroad,
making their terminus at New Haven
and the suggestion made that they
might go to Bridgeport, making 1t a
great shipping point, the oracle of the
town brought down the house by say
ing, Bridgeport! Where is Bridge
port?"
Why? a fiat-fish couldn't find the
mud-hole except it took an eel for a pi-
lot. That joke turned the vote and the
road went to Bridgeport. What would
the "old wise-acres" say to-day, look
ing from our present sight at a city Of
ninety thousand people? In this mum
dane trip of ours in all but the saving
of health, reputation and money, toss
up a penny and stand or fall by your
1 luck, for the best laid plans Of mice and
men so oft AVA
SOUND THE LOUD TIMBREL"
New Haven saw one sight and had
one blowout that was remembered foI
a generation, as the girl said of her
wedding day, well, have had one
good time if never have another. =
When the first boats came in from the
north every bridge was garlanded
Bands, cannons, horns, blunderbuss
kittles, everything that would make a
noise was utilized. The banks Of the
canal, lined with people whose Threats
had been graphophoned with Santa
Cruz braces until they equaled the bed
lum of tri-ennial post collegiate reun-
ion.
The triumphant entrance of THE
Doge" or of a Roman Caesar with his
chariots loaded with captive kings, was
like gypsy train compared to the long
4 9 e..
cred with pumpkins, squash, cabbages
apples and all the productions of the
north country presented to the city
who had welded them to the deep blue
sea. OH the speeches; oh! the song'
and the toasts given TO every towr
upon the line Of the canal and the adj
wise to all towns off the line to move
over to the canal and be in touch witt
the rest of the world,
After the celebration a singular cpl
demic pervaded the entire line. People
were taken with peculiar dizzy feel
ing and nausea, which was called sea-
sickness, quite unlike the canal sick
ness New Haven had a few years later
known as the "Diteh-Grippe.'
| Whether uncoyering so large a guam
tity of earth produced malaria or tn
extreme ecstasy of being connected
with the sea (for every town on tn
line considered itself seaporD effecte,
their nervous system was never known
but one thing the importers Of Santi
Cruz and cigars did know, that the de
mand for rum and sugar was so grea
that the stock on hand was exhausted
This complaint was heard on the street
'NeighIbor! what do you think? Lar
sake"
: 1t takes a Spanish milled dollar +
buy gallon of hum since that cana
was opened. (Old price fifty cents.
The rum was never known to com
back, but the sugar was returned to u
in the shape Of maple sugar at fly
-. times its first cost. Pure maple
The Santa Cruz or the ozone from tn
sea produced aneffluence from a North
!, ampton poet whose imagination follow
the Silver Stream to where the dee
! blue ocean rolls on to India's Core
Strand. to Afric's sunny fountains, an
: ends off with,
Roll on blest clam juice forever 10
a on,
Bringing Santa Cruz to Northampto
And freedom to man.
According to established Gus
: tom, when a new country is opened
Christian civilization, missionaries an
: rum are the pioneers. The rum SUI
posedly to open the hearts of the fierC
= savage to the reception of. the theoret
= - e - nm rtinal Mraliainn of naacn