The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-20

Bury me on my face," said Dio- genes, and when he was asked why, he wplied: Because in a little While everything will be turned upside down.
 Diogenes perhaps unwitt1ngly fore saw the fate of the old burying ground on Division street, wherein many years ago. everything was not only turned upside down., but scrambled and so thoroughly jun bled up that none of those buried there can ever hope to become translated into mist that could justify even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into saying that he saw the spirit of an old timer from Bridgeport
 Formerly it was the dividing line be tween Bridgeport and Fairfield, from which fact it's name was derived. When Bridgeport was extended west changed to it's present one
 The burying ground frontage on the west side of Division street ex- tended from the residence of Colonel Hall, on the corner of Hanover street. down to Black Rock avenue several hundred feet in ali, and stands the winter quarters of the Ringing shows. There was a high white wooden fence on Division street and the entrance was a pre- tentiOus gateway of Gothic design, opened only when there was a funer- al-
 Wren Home Former Chapel
 Just inside this gateway was the grave of Nadine PuIanal, covered with a large fiat marble slab, where on was cut description of the lady many virtues One of her gifts to religion was the Pulanal chapel which stood on State street. Many years ago this was razed by Peter Wren to make place for his home. This fact was the incentive for the words "Tempus fugit,'' carved on the chim- ney of MT. Wren's home, which are often marked today in passing. When this home was built, MT. Wren was president of the Board of Education
 The creed of Madame Pulanal was Unitarian and the clergyman she in- stalled in her church was the Rev. Charles Billings On several occa- sions he exchanged pulpits with the Rev. Dr. Bellows of New York. Dr. Bellows church was a very peculiar a..d yellow brick The humorous in Gotham often called it the ''Holy Ze- bra
 Madame PulanaPs home was the large free-stone building next to MT. Wren's residence, which is now altered and divided into a double house. Occupying it at this time are Dr. Gar lick and his family on one side, and MT. Bellew and his family on the other.
 The house boasted of many spIen- did entertainments in those days of long ago, and also sheltered many folks from far and near, for it's mis- tress was a hospitable soul Among the, people who lived in Madame PulanaPs former home were Major and Mrs. Anderson, the major being of martial fame, having held Fort Sumter against the rebels as long as he could. These genial people spent some time here, and were wined and dined all over Bridgeport
 Madame, like almost everybody who can afford it, had a hobby-cats. She maintained for years as many as forty or fifty felines and in her will left the entire collection of Toms and Tabbys a legacy for their comfort and maintenance as long as they lived.
 Some of the foregoing features of Madame's benevolence were cut into the marble slab that covered her grave. On Saturdays school children used to play upon this emblematic tomb, and study out the meaning of the inscriptions
 Cannon Street Sponsor There.
 Another headstone worthy of men ton was that of Philip A. Cannon, for whom Cannon street was named. MT Cannon was a very wealthy man, his homestead occupying the ground now covered by the Atlantic hotel. He was a very public-Spirited citizen, serving Bridgeport as State Senator in 1888. He was the first man in the city to own and drive a coach called a barouche.
 There were many other monuments and markers of a long line of Bridge port families In the old Division street buryins ground. During their lives these sequestered bodies were