The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
THE HARTFORD TIMES

l A 1918 when the Hartford Daily Times, in 1877, began it's ca reer of usefulness and increasing prosperity. The Times was organiz- l ed to promote a modern constitution
 for Connecticut. but such is the na- ture of environment. that our esteern- ed contemporary begins it's history
 ''of Hartford, Connecticut, and the | World revealed in the Bound Files | Of the Hartford Times with the
 statement that there was but one in-
 surance company in existence in | Hartford when the Times made it's | appearance on the first day of the
 year 1877. Perhaps this beginning IS | the product of a sound philosophy
 Nobody knows how much good or
 evil has been produced by the con-
 stitution of 1918. Everybody knows l that the insurance business has been
 an institution of unbroken benefi-
 cence.
 The occasion of the History is a
 celebration of the entrance of the
 Times into its new home, which is
 one of the handsomest newspaper
 buildings in the world, containing one
 of the finest plants. The Times is,
 and has been during all it's years, a
 newspaper of quality. Its files are
 more interesting than organized his-
 tory. They are a complete and
 thoughtful summary of the import
 ant events, and some of the unim-
 portant which have taken place dur
 ing hundred years of American de- Velopment. The Times reported
 President Monroes visit to Hartford
 the trial of Queen Caroline. wife of
 ksng George ". of England: the visit of Charles Dickens and of Lafay r cite.
 In the midst of these important oc- currences it did not neglect the fash ! ions. A century ago the Washington bonnet was the fashionable headwear of women. The bonnet got itself celebrated in poetry:
 "A pretty grass bonnet : dear native bonnet
 The Washington bonnet
 That rivals Leghorn" s To which the Times gave a promi. g nent place in it's issue of October y 1S21
 S In October, 1881. occurred the dou. t ble crusade against Mormonism ant - Masonry The Times referred to the l. attacks on Mormonism in the West e and said: 'It is not more wild ane n as yet has been far less hideous in it. y features than the mania of anti a Masonry n Daniel Webster visited Hartford ir e that year, but the Times liked neithe, g him nor his political associates. l. In 1886, the business card of pr l. Horace Welles, who discovered ether n and who was the father of moder, d anaesthesia appeared in the advertis n ing columns.
 Eighty years ago the Hartford ant
 New Haven railroad company was re e quired by law to prepare an annua is schedule of fares and to have then d printed in a Hartford and Ney IS Haven paper. In those days as now y Bridgeport, which had an older news 70 paper was a part of the Connection is system but not influential in divid le ing the spells. Passengers rode iron
 Hartford to New Haven for $2. %. Tn es freight charge for 2,O0O 1bs.> of freigh S. between the same points was $4.00. Id Imprisonment for debt was in dis in favor as far back as 1s41, but in tha t. year there were III commitments t Id the Hartford county jail for deb 1- Those were not happy days. ,n Two years later the Times an ly Courant abandoned affairs of vast 10 ness and importance to discuss tn is practice, which the General Assem- sh hly had, in voting themselves pencils 1e penknives and other articles. Tn
 Times was against this insignificar in graft, but it was years before tn to General Assembly discontinued ii of gifts to it's members
 st The Times, as early as 1851, wa e. opposed to slavery, believing that th as institution could be terminated witt ed out war. Its first statement of i