New Britain herald., 1916-01-27

 LUB OBSERVES |EW BRITAIN NIGHT
Continued from Ninth Page.)

8pn the corner of what is now
 ech and Elu streets. The new
 hin Knitting Co.'s building, the sst manufacturing building in the # at that time was on the corner
 hestnut and Elm. The North and
 ley Go. and P. & F. Corbin had $l buildings on the south side of # street, where the P & r. Corbin 8ry is now. The O. B. North Co.,, \ wooden factory at the north $pf what is now Hartford avenue #ford avenue itself being at that q the site of a pond which fur #ed part of the power for the o. B. #h Co. The North & Judd Mfg #had a small wooden building on SBite of the present factory. Hor- HButler & Sons occupied the wood Factory where is now located the %tt & Hine Mfg. Co The Humason 8eckley Go. was where it is now Sergeant Co. did business in a 8S factory on Elm street, south of New Britain Knitting Co. This 6pany and the o. B. North Co., later Fed to New Haven.
 addition to the churches already stioned there was a Methodist Ha streets an Advent church on 2n street and St. Mary's church on Etle street.
 ghe Normal school of which we B already spoken housed High, &umar, Intermediate and Primary Sols as well as a Normal school. fosite in the basement of the South fch, was an overflow school. Dis schools were scattered about h.
 |y the census of 1860 the town of Britain is recorded to have had bpulation of 5,212.
 the panic of 1857 busi- both manufacturing and com |cial had been seriously depressed. Ehe time of the inauguration of eoln in 1861, however, business
 recovered from its set back and
 outlook was good. The secession he southern states caused consid- ole loss to several factories, the SGl1 X E1IWlIl 1O. DSIIlS Iy ] hit, as they had about $1O0,000 !
 them from southern merchants. l 1 te here from Camps History of 7 Britain, the breaking out he Civil War in President Lfncoln's illustration there was general up- lg of the people of New Britain,
 the manifestation of patriotism
 almost universal.
 he first regular war-meetfng in tford county, and one of the first he state pertaining to the war of
 rebellion, was held in the First rch. New Britain, Sunday evening, II IA, 1861, a few hours after Ma Anderson had evacuated Fort Sum- Rev Samuel Rockwell presided. olutions to support the government 3 unanirn ously passed amid great lusiasm, which was raised to its
 est pitch when V. B. Chamberlain,
 :. presented to the audience, ac- panied by a thrilling speech, a rait of Major Anderson. This 1some picture of the hero of Fort ter had been encirc1ed with a el wreath prepared by a few la
 of New Britain. An enlistment sr was presented, and the enlist t of volunteers, headed by Frank
 ley, who was afterward killed at l Bend, Louisiana, was begun. v personal recollections of that ting is quite vivid The church |
 packed and upon the platform ! } the ministers of the town-Rev. | ueI Rockwell and Dr. Goodell of l South church, Rev. Perrin of the l .er church, Rev. E. P. Bond of the | tist church, Rev. David Boo1e of | Methodist church and Rev. Father of St. Mary's church. mong the names signed to the sr for ! enlistment was James Hey, who was not accepted as a nteer on account of his age. New ain at this time had among its ems English, Irish, Scotch, Ger is and three Italians. One of these
 ans and representatives of all the 1T nationalities mentioned were ,ng those enlisting. A full com y was recruited for the first regi- 1t of Connecticut volunteers, sixty n New Britain and twenty from ,ining towns. The date of enlist 1t in the United States service was II 22, 1861. Frederick w. Hart
 the captain of the company and were honorably discharged on
 31, 1861, their term of enlist f being for three months.
 v records of the adjutant-generaPs e there had enlisted from New ain up to July 1, 1864, four hun and twenty-four men. This, ever, does not include the entire Iber which should be credited to Britain, as a great many enlisted ther towns where they were em-
 ed, giving as their place of resi- @. the place where they were king.
 here are recorded on the Soldiers lument in Central park the names 4S4 who were residents of New ain, but I am told by MT. Loren field, who compiled the list, that
 names of those who deserted the
 ITS were not inscribed on the ,ument. The number of desert- is supposed to be about fifty.
 oth Camps and Andrews histories New Britain state that over 600 enlisted, who were or had been q x,s+ +,;