The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-10
STATE ARSENAL PLANS.
COMPETITION AMONG ARCHI
 TECTS HAS GOOD RESULTS.

Vice-President Woodward of Con
 necticut General Life Insurance
 Company--NIiss Gay Collecting Ma
 teriaI for Centennial History of Mer
 iden.
 Hartford, Feb. 9.-The action of tht
 legislature last winter in rejecting leg
 islation that would have prevented
 competition by architects not residing
 in Connecticut in regard to plans fol state buildings has been productive o1
 admirable results. In consequence o1 the course taken by the legislature plans have been submitted by eminent
 nonresident architects for the state arsenal and armory, and resident arch itects have been placed on their mettle in the competition. Hunt & Hunt, of New York city, in the view of Governor Roberts, stand at the head of the out side competitors. The governor says it will be difficult task to decide on the most acceptable plans, the work of the competing architects being in general of a high order. The plans of the diff ferent competitors, twenty-one in all, will be placed on exhibition in the state capitol next Tuesday. Great interest will be felt in the plans by the Nation al Guard and representative National Guardsmen from all parts of the state will view the exhibit.
 The sudden illness of Vfce-President P. H. Woodward, of the Connecticut General Life Insurance company, in volving a surgical operation, has sur prised the insurance community in Hartford, in which MT. Woodward has been a prominent figure for years. Vice-President Woodward is gradu- ate of Yale, having taken his diploma in the class of 1855. The members of that class still living fin Hartford are Lewis E. Stanton of the Hartford bar, Professor Charles Frederick Johnson of Trinity college, and Theodore Ly- man, one of the largest stockholders in the Hartford Fire Insurance company. For long period MT. Woodward was at the head of the Secret Service of the United States, and performed especial- ly brilliant work under Postmaster General Marshall Jewell. He is the au- thor of an extensive work on the secret service. He has been resident of Hartford twenty-five years It was through his instrumentality that the Hartford Board of Trade was placed on a permanent and influential basis. MT. Woodward wrote the history of the Hartford National Bank, work of great, value in it's line. He also wrote an extensive history of the Hartford insurance companies, being an impor- tant contribution to the history of the city as a center of underwriting in the United States. Vice-President Wood ward has been connected with the Con necticut General Life for number of years and has rendered service of high rank in the company's financial man. agement.
 Miss A. M. Gay, of the Connecticut Historical society library, has been en- gagged through the fall and winter in collecting material for the Centennial History of Meriden. The work will make volume of five hundred pages at least, and will be issued under the supervision of Mir. George Curtis, who is at the head of the Centennial com- mittee. The researches by Miss Gay have been made in Wallingford and New Haven principally, much time having been spent by her in the New Haven libraries and the public record department. One of the most interest," ing literary enterprises of the year in Hartford has been the preparation of the Boardman genealogy by an old time Hartford merchant, William F. J. Boardman. He has been interested in the project for long time and made an extensive collection of material, sparing nothing in the way of money or research that could add to the value and correctness of the genealogy. The are now completed and the volume will comprise some seven hundred pages. MT. Boardman is a. man Of cultivated tastes and has some of the most desirable curios in his li- brary and "den" to be found in the state. There is an invaluable Putnam chair in the den; also Robert Burns
  MT. Boardman has not been man of rugged health during the past ten years and much of the time he has been "shut in," not being able to leave the house for weeks at a time. In these periods he has passed the hours in his favorite pursuits in the den on the third story. His home is one of wealth and luxury on Pennington ave- nue, rich in paintings and works of art. One of the most noted paintings in New England is embraced in the col | lection. There is something extremely | in the life that Mir. Board | man has been living in these years | His former activities were in the marts l and competitions of business, in which | ne had few equals and no superiors on | State street in Hartford. When his health became impaired he sought re- | in books and genealogies art works and the delightful home sur which he had established. | His literary tastes have opened the way for an envied old age. But his r friends have kept pace with him in hat direction; as the Hon. H. Wales lines once expressed it with the philos- 'phy of manhood: We all grow old ogether," MT. Boardman, who has been an influential and directive factor n the business life of Hartford, is one 'f it's best opponents in civil life and sffort.
 BIG STORE BURNED.