The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-14
PLEAsASr NEas.

The Board of Assessors has treated the Board of Finance to an agreeable surprise The financiers had concluded that there should be healthy in crease in the size of the grand list, but the assessors have found that the increase will exceed the estimate of the former by over half million. This will materially aid the Roard of Fi- nance in considering the needs of the different departments.
 More important, however, than the smiles which the assessors have weav- ed about the mouths of the money dts tributors is the story these figures tell of the substantial growth of the city of New Haven. It is an old and sound saying that nothing stands still in this world. Men and things are forever either going up the hill of progress and development or they are travelling down. It is now many years since Mayor Henry Lewis reached his deter imitation to make a city in fact as we'll as in name ont of the rambling town of New Haven. He despised village conditions of social life and he set bravely forth upon the task of devel- opment. There were those then living who regarded him as a spendthrift who would use the money of the hard working taxpayers to experiment with his restless idea. He kept at the job, meeting their objections with rough and ready eloquence which carried things before 1t, He built sewers with an eye to the public health, he straightened streets and established new departments as the business of the awakened city demanded. His lips
 were ever ready to convey to the
 minds Of less enthusiastic citizens the
 assurance that the natural environ
 ment of New Haven guaranteed its
 constant growth until it had taken its lplace among the foremost cities of this jsection of the country.
 It is the spirit of Harry Lewis (which can be detected in these recur. firing reports of city development. That
 he saw more clearly into the future
 than all of, his fellow citizens saw was Ithe sourcs of his determination ana
 Inspiration If he were alive to-day hs
 would feel no sense of surprise upor
 being told that New Haven is be looming more and more of a business lcenter and an ideal home seat. H, Iknew that the reports would be mad ialong those lines because to him thl lsituation of the town would appeal t lthe imagination and confidence 0 men. He asked his fellow citizens t lhave confidence in themselves in or
 der that others might feel confidenc
 in them. The remedy of Harry Levi
 for the generation of which he was
 conspicuous part is the remedy for tn lgeneration which is now looking for
 ward to even greater things. Tn response which. the city of New Have has made this year to the complaint of its croakers should be sufficient { silence them. Silent men and thrift linen have gone on building homes an . factory buildings in superb disregar , of the advice of those who woul t counsel delay and as a result of the t faith we have a bigger and richer ci 3 than ever.
 . There is still greater New Have = to come The trolleys are distributir ] the population in every direction as g offering homes for new settlers. Ne . Haven has already overrun its bou l diaries and has encamped in the ve S heart of the town of Orange. The flo