The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-01

to ponder over. This locality was pre- eminently an old line Whig settlement. ! Barn Burners lived in these domains. | The eleven heads of families were Philos Blake. Henry Peck, Henry | Beecher, Cyprian Wilcox, Lewis | Fitch, John Coley (who lived in the [ house now occupied by ex-Mayor Farnsworth) Nelson Gaston and Mar GUS Merriman. Avery c. Babcock lived in the first house south of the Canal bridge on Orange street Timothy Les ter and Nahum Haywood lived on the west side of Grove street
 MT. Haywood lived in the Gambrol roof house, the first nome of the New Haven Orphan Asylum, until it re- moved to Asylum street in the west ern part of the city. It stood on the land which MT W. A. Spalding, pres ident of the Tradesmens National Bank now owns. MT. Haywood was the man who, in 1S45. set the present iron fence around the Green. You just take squint at it's present alignment and see how true it is to-day, Of these heads of families I can count up thirty lusty juvenile "Whig boys" on- ly four of whom I believe are living to-day. 1 think we were all Lancas- terian school boys. The largest family of boys were the Haywards, and they were 8 lively crowd, too. Lancasterian boys of those days will recall their names as l write them. Luther Chick named "Coot) was the oldest; then came Almarine, Nahum, Jerome, AL gernon and Pulaski Jerome is the on- ly survivor of that family of boys.
 In those days the two political par ties held State mass meetings In the Harrison presidential campaign in lS4O the Whigs held one m New Ha- ven. Wings came from all over the State, held hig procession for those days, had party devices, all sorts of transparencies and log cabins, hard cider barrels and I don't know what not On these occasions the private houses of the two parties were thrown open to the visitors who were regal i ly entertained. I remember my fathers | house was opened on this occa- | sion and he entertained a lot of old i gentlemen from East Haven Dragon" :" who rode in procession in a dug-out canoe, which came with it. mast standing and "Old Glory" floating at the masthead. preceded by a brass band. They sat down to we'll pro- vided table, too, the old canoe repre- senting "Tippeccanoe1 This was the time the old campaign song ran:
 Maine went H-l bent for Governor
 Kent
 Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.
 So on we go to crush the foe
 Hurrah. hurrah, Hurrah
 l have souvenirs of the campaign
 In 1s44 the Clay campaign was on,
 and the State mass meeting of the
 Whigs was held in Hartford with the
 New Haven contingent of Whigs who
 attended were 200 juvenile Clay
 Whigs: we all met at the Green and
 marched down through Chapel Olive
 Wooster to East and Bridge street
 where the passenger depot of the
 Hartford road was located We assem.
 hled about 5 o'clock in the morning the train leaving at 6 and it took us : until 12 o'clock to reach Hartford ! remember transparency at a saloor
 on the corner northwest of East ant Wooster street hung out over the dool
 with a dead whig coon legs up with 7
 Loco Foco rooster on top with thes, words, "Coony. Coony Clay Yes Nive , can be prisident l heard the peopl, say" and how we boys hssed th, l transparency We didn't get back iron D Hartford till midnight and tired on : lot we were too, but true blue Whjg as I will further relate Mass and oth CT political meetings of both partie were being held the Whig bows hell , their meetings too and discussed tn situation like their "dads"-the Or : ange street contingent decided that
 would be in order to have an ash pol - with a Clay and Frelinghuyson fla. t floating in our neighborhood So on D Saturday afternoon the clans eathere , and marched up orange street wifi ? drum and fife to Cold Spring wood I cut out nice straight sapplin - trimmed off the branches. cut carry . ing sticks and brought it down to tb 2 vacant lot south of the Orange stree I bridge. The grade of the lot at tba t time was down to the bed of the ean4 n and there we set If up and the Cla