New Britain herald., 1915-02-20

The letter received by Mayor Quig-
 ley this week from a man in Cali
 fornia in which he favored the erec-
 ton of the Burritt memorial on Bur-
 ritt hill as a result of inspection
 of the place about two years ago, is
 another feature of the discussion that
 accompanied the proposed tribute to
 the memory of the "Learned Bla elk
 smith," which is to be placed on the
 park near the High school. The prop
 erty in question was once owned by
 MT. Burritt and it was from him that
 the late Horace Booth purchased it
 and which, is now being turned into
 residential property by the trustees
 of that estate. It was long looked
 upon by the admirers of MT. Burritt
 as a suitable place for the memorial
 which in those times had not taken
 on definite shape. Some favored it's
 purchase for a park to be named in
 honor of Mr. Burritt, while others eX-
 pressed a wish that monument of
 some kind be erected there, but all
 those plans were changed when the
 necessary money was provided and
 the matter of the memorial was
 placed in the hands of a committee.
 There is no evidence that MT. Burritt
 ever utilized the property in question
 for any purpose except as pasturage
 for cattle and in the section near
 Broad street, opposite Curtis, he provided a mission in which religious
 services >were held regularly, suc-l clergymen as were available being
 asked to officiate at the exercises. "A street is being run through the prop erty now, in a short time houses will be erected there and it will cease to have any of the farmlike appearance it used to have. adjoining as it does a thicklv populated section. It would have been a great boost to the finan-
 cial value of property there had the Burritt farm been turned into a park, but it is a strange thing that no one over took any interest in the plan and to that perhaps. more than to anything else was the park propOsi- 1 ton allowed to die natural death if it could ever have been truthfully said to have been born. It was Mir. Rurritt's connection with the place that gave it the name of Bufritt Hill i but there is no evidence that he ever ] paid any particular attention to it, ex- cept as above stated. Horace Booth l who owned ii for great many years ] before his death. did not make any ! more use OI It lIldl uld MI. buT1lll, | except to cut down a number of trees 1 and to permit it's use as a pasture fo~ | the cows owned in the neighborhood | and afterwards for cattle owned by l himself. It will evidently soon lose i all it's bucolic appearance, the growth 1 of the city is going that way now and /! soon all of the Burritt farm will be turned into homes for industrious 1 people. The city has invited that dur | ing the past two years by making 1 many public improvements along the | roadway which skirts the property.
 I The committee which is revising l inc ordinances made a report to the i common council Wednesday evening
 concerning provisions for buildings l which was not accepted and about the | leaalitv of which there is some ques- l tion. The committee said that three 1 story buildings should not be more | than thirty-five feet in height and | should not contain more than three ] tenements while no height was speci-