The Newtown bee., 1907-06-21

brilliant in its dress of bunting and flags. 1t was a very neat job, the work of the Waterbury Decorating Go.
 The decorative arrangement on J. F. Treadwell's s residence was rich in the extreme. The house was draped with 3x 12 standard bunting flags, while
 hields were used. 1t was the work of the Roster people.
 MONDAY AFTERNOONS SPEAK
 FRS.
 The exercises of Monday afternoon were of exceedingly high character. Attorney F. M. Williams presided and was happy in his introductions. prov ing to be the right man in the right place. The orations of Chief Justice Baldwin of the State Supreme court and of Attorney Daniel Davenport of Brideport were exceedingly able and were followed with deep interest.
 The Chorus was again heard with keen delight in a number of selections and were heartily applauded.
 ADDRESS OF REV SAMUEL HART. D. D.
 | The addr ess, Monday afternoon, of | that leading churchman and splendid gentleman, Rev Samuel Hart, D. D., of Middletown, was heard. with deep | interest:
 | MT President: The recurring anni- versaries of the towns of our ancient State are bringing before us, as in a series of living pictures, the history of parts. Beginning, within the easy memory of many now living, with the quarter -millenials of the first settled -towns, Hartford and it's sister towns of the Great River, Saybrook at it's mouth, New Haven on it's fair har- Dor at the mouth of the Quinnipiac, and then it's allied towns, Guilford to | the east and Milford, your mother-city, l to the west, we are passing now to the oi-centenaries of those the history of which begins in the opening years of l the eighteenth century. Our origins i have been brought before us, and we | have studied again the men and the times, the founders of our first colonies and the foundations which they laid, the early history of two differently or dered federations or groups of organ | ized communities, and their union in 1 to one government under a charter from the English king which made i them almost independent of his author 1 ity.
 | We are passing now to another pc | riod, when under varied influences and l in changed circumstances many of our most beautiful and prosperous towns were founded. Two years ago New town. which once had part of it's boundary line in common with you, ob- erved it's bi-centennial and the two hundredth anniversaries of Derby and Woodbury and Waterbury and Danbury to mention only those in this neigh | boorhood.-were earlier than that. There was movement of life into this part of Connecticut, the meaning and result of which will be brought before you by those who have studied it in it's | details and can describe it with local color. Without repeating or anticipat- ing their words, l may venture to ask you to think of the difference which little more than seventy years has made in the motives that swayed mems minds and the imressions that were made on them ty the lands which they occupied. One thinks of the stern resolve, both political and ecclesiasti- cal which sent Hooker and his com wilderness till they came to the river and crossed it into strange land. with | a determination like that of the father of the faithful when he crossed the great river of the eastern world; and | then wonders whether they ad- one feels sure that they climbed the hills and looked down into the more beautiful valley of the Tunxis they were drawn by it to look still further west. One follows in mind the mili- tary instinct which saw the importance of the control of the Connecticut, and built a fort at it's mouth, and levied dues on traffic and transportation, and laid out streets for the houses of peo- pie of quality who were expected to come to dwell there. And one thinks of the surprises which befell those who sailed slowly along the shore of the Sound, looking into inlet and bay, and finding at the Fair Haven place where they might build city after the pattern of the heavenly Jerusalem, and in 1t dwell and get gain. In each of these early instances there was an ele-
  of duty mingled with an appreciation alike of the beautiful and the practical, that combination which, as Horace told us long ago, "carries every vote '' To some extent this had passed awan two hundred years ago, when possssioy was taken of the farming lands and the fair though rugged hill-sides enclosing the river valley. in which we now stand. The settlers who came up into the high grounds from the shores of part, on account of disagreement with their neighbors in the matters civil or ecclesiastical, nor with a special sense of divine calling or mission. They | were rather led by the Anglo-Saxon l spirit of colonization, to settle on new soil, to extend former industries or to | undertake new ones, and to organize | new units of life in the body politic St1ll, we cannot doubt that when they, | too, looked over the fields they saw
  harvests and crops from them, ard that when they followed the water eourse they did more than estimate the use which they might make of the force o1 the falling sream. They had somethi1 g of the enthusiasm Of discovery, and something of the joy of those who fl. st turn natures forces to mans account. It is worth our while, as we go back n mind to these beginnings, to try to ,hink they thought who first look ed lpol the natural feat1reS ofthe la11- 'cape, which it takes much more than ,wo centuries materially to change. md to see why they chose as they did who fixed on this spot as their hon e. n this regard there is in all our set dement's, early and late. something hat they have in common, which ap- ,eals rather more, I am inclined to mink. to the philosopher than to the historian. Perhaps the student of his tory delights more in noting the Inference is in the plans and purposes If those who settled our early towns, nd in finding in each. as he readily nay, some detail of character or event ( which marks it with a special romance. As your early history is read before