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 ATTRACTIONS 
 
 OF 
 
 NEW HAVEN, 
 
 CONNECTICUT; 
 
 A Guide to the City. 
 
 WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 By S. H. ELLIOT, 
 
 Author of '■'Rolling Ridge,^^ ''Parish Side" "Dreams and 
 Realities," "New England's Chattels," Ss'c. 
 
 NEW YORK : Mi^Kop WASH'>^^:!^ 
 
 PUBLISHED BY N. TIBBALS & CO. 
 
 37 Park Row, and 145 Nassau St. 
 
 1869. 
 
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 Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1869 
 hy S. H. Elliot, in the Clerli's Office of the District Court, for 
 the Southern District of New York. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 New Haven 1 
 
 The Old Green 3 
 
 Hon. James Hillhouse, 4 
 
 New Haven Founded 6 
 
 New Haven Laid Out 6 
 
 Public Green (111.) 7 
 Regicide, Col. John Dixwell 9 
 
 Attractions of New Haven 10 
 
 Hacks and Cars 
 
 11 
 
 Hotels 
 
 14 
 
 The Lunch 
 
 15 
 
 Hoadley's 
 
 17 
 
 Ice Cream and Strawberries 18 
 
 Round the Green 
 
 19 
 
 Chapel Street 
 
 21 
 
 Long Wharf 
 
 32 
 
 The Drives 
 
 38 
 
 Savin Rock 
 
 39 
 
 Charles' Island 
 
 41 
 
 The Light House 
 
 43 
 
 Towns East of City 
 
 45 
 
 " North 
 
 47 
 
 East and West Rocks 
 
 50 
 
 Derby — Birmingham - 
 
 -An- 
 
 soma 58 
 
 Fishing— Trout— Pickerel 61 
 Carriage Business 67 
 
 Yale College— College Pray- 
 ers — Trumbull Gallery 
 Art Gallery — Ceremonies 
 Sports — Examinations 
 Comraencemeut Week 
 etc. 70 
 
 Public Schools— Charities 8 
 Benevolent Institutions 86 
 
 Music Hall 88 
 
 Churches 90 
 
 The Stores— Jewelry — Mer- 
 chant Tailors — Dry Goods 
 — Grocery — Music— Sew- 
 ing Machine8~Pictures95-106 
 
 Westville 
 
 107 
 
 The Banks 
 
 109 
 
 Insurance Offices 
 
 112 
 
 The Ladies 
 
 114 
 
 Localities 
 
 116 
 
 Cemeteries 
 
 119 
 
 Newspapers 
 
 122-123 
 
 News Offices 
 
 23 
 
 Book Stores 
 
 124 
 
 The City Hall— Merchants 
 
 Exchange 
 
 125 
 
 PubUc Halls, etc., 
 
 126 
 
 Young Men's Chiistian As- 
 
 sociation 
 
 127 
 
 Appendix : 
 
 
 Mail Arrangements 
 
 128 
 
 Railway Time-Table 
 
 129 
 
 Steamboats 
 
 131: 
 
 Fire Departments 
 
 133 
 
 Telegraph Offices 
 
 135 
 
 City Government 
 
 136 
 
 Military Affiiirs 
 
 137 
 
 Advertisements 
 
 141 
 
NEW HAYEK 
 
 'EW HAVEN is situs ted on a low and aandy 
 I plain. It is at the mouth of the Quinnipiac 
 S)K^river, which is a considerable stream flowing 
 through the village of Fair Haven, and emptying 
 itself into the bay. This is an old Indian name. It 
 has survived the old tribe of the Quinnipiacs who 
 fished and hunted here, and who sometimes fought 
 the Pequots and other tribes who trespassed on their 
 domain. The name still lives, but the tribe is ex- 
 tinct. The name is given to lakes and rivers, to 
 various institutions, to trades, and to hotels, bid- 
 ding fair to be retained for all time to come, the 
 only monument to the memory of a lost people. 
 Mill River is a smaller stream flowing, into the plain 
 of New Haven from the west side of East Rock, 
 and unites with the Quinnipiac a little above Tom- 
 
linson's bridge, near the steamboat dock. On the 
 west side of the city, is a stream called West River, 
 which makes its way into the Sound a little west of 
 Oyster Point, and near the West Haven town lines. 
 Between these streams is the city of New Haven. 
 In other words, it is at the head of a bay that sets 
 up from Long Island Sound about five miles, on the 
 level plain, left, as it would almost seem, by the sub- 
 sidence of the water. We inquire, " Did not for- 
 merly the water of the bay flow over this soil, and 
 roll up against the cliffs of East and West Rock ! " 
 Whether this were so, or the land and water lie to- 
 gether about as the Deluge left them, it is certain 
 that the town is built on a level nearly as Ioav as 
 the water, and while there is an actual rise of ground 
 of several feet as you go town-ward, and humanly 
 speaking all is safe, and "high and dry," yet a smart 
 tidal-wave sent in by an earthquake would easily 
 make a clean sweep of the city, and the ships would 
 heave their anchors on College Square or at the foot 
 of West Rock. But this would be a dreadful 
 calamity : it is, I may say, never dreamed of even, 
 and New Haven is in goodsooth a very handsome 
 city, covered, as it were, with lofty and beautiful 
 Elms, arching the street, with their graceful limits, 
 ovcrshading the walk, with their tender foliage. 
 Hence it bears the celebrated nomine de 2)lum€, " The 
 City op Elms." It is a town now of goodly pro- 
 portions, and is much frequented by strangers and 
 travellers in search of pleasure. 
 
On coming to the city one of the first objects of 
 interest to a stranger, is the number and magnifi- 
 cence, of the shade-trees, especially 
 The Old Trees. 
 
 Within the limits, of the city, as origfnally laid out, 
 are some very large and grand specimens yet standing 
 of the old Elms. They may be one iiundred and 
 fifty or two hundred years old. We do not know 
 precisely when they date from but they go back far 
 into the days of the wilderness, when the native in- 
 habitants were all about here. There is one great 
 tree, last of his immediate neighbors, on Elm street 
 near the North church. It is a venerable pile. A 
 very aged and large tree near it was lately removed 
 on account of its decay. There is a monster Ehn 
 near the corner of Ehn and College streets. 
 
 A very magnificent one occupies the corner of 
 Chapel and Church streets, protected by the city with 
 railings or pickets. And in Temple street, below 
 Chapel, there are some great trees, and so there is 
 one on the corner of Chapel and College street. There 
 are other trees of this class here and there, but not 
 many so very aged as these. Still, the great Elm 
 shfides of the city run along many entire streets, 
 lifting high their strong limbs with pendant boughs 
 of green, spreading themselves in splendid gothic 
 an lies the whole length of many. Take for exam- 
 ple, Temple street. What a mngnificent gothic 
 arch it exhibits, the pride of New IIavcn,thc delight 
 of every beholder. So is it in College street and in 
 
Chapel. The trees along these streets are the growth 
 of an hundred years or so. The old streets all 
 have them, the new show a younger growth. It is a 
 governing rule of the town authorities to keep good 
 the supply of this splendid adornment of nature by 
 planting new and young trees in all the new streets. 
 Hon. James Hilliiouse. 
 In this connection we will here insert a name fa- 
 miliar to all the old inhabitants of New Haven, Mr 
 James Hillhouse. He flourished here many years ago 
 and was personally interested in the early out plant- 
 ing of these ornamental trees, bearing them on his 
 shoulders or carrying them in his arms, and setting 
 the young trees out in regular order on the streets 
 and squares. He was a man of great energy of char- 
 acter, and one who looked far into the future above 
 many men of his time. He was a Revolutionary 
 soldier and a member of the House and Senate of the 
 United States. He exerted a large influence through- 
 out the State in behalf of internal improvements, 
 pushing toward the Farmington canal, the trial of 
 steamboats on the upper waters of the Connecticut 
 River, and advocated his views personally before the 
 Legislatures of the bordering states. But although 
 these efforts must be conceded in the main as unsuc- 
 cessful, the failure seems rather to belong to the 
 nature of the country, than to the plans and views 
 of Mr Hillhouse. At all events he has been long 
 regarded as a wise and great man, one of the re- 
 markable men of his age. And he lived to a great 
 
age, never forgetting in his puljlic works, the claims 
 on him of this city. For her improvement and 
 beauty he continued to labor to the last, and long 
 before his departure walked beneath the grand 
 arches and in the luxuriant shades of the elms hi s 
 own hands had contributed to plant. Strangers on 
 visiting New Haven should not fail to drive up Hill- 
 house Avenue^ where the descendants of the flimily 
 reside. 
 
 Uew Haven Pounded- 
 On a very warm day in July, the 30 th day of 
 the month 1637, a small weather beaten craft 
 from old England, came to anchor in the harbor at 
 Boston. On board this vessel among others was 
 Mr. John Davenpoiit. In our times he would be 
 called the Reverend John Davenport. He was one 
 of the great men of his times, and one of the found- 
 ers of New Haven. With him came over Theophi- 
 lus Eaton, Mr. Samuel Eaton, Edward Hopkins, 
 Thomas Gregson and several other persons of good 
 character and fortune. Eaton and Hopkins had 
 been London merchants of great property, and Da- 
 venport, a famous London divine. Arrived in Bos- 
 ton, they soon after decided on a permanent settle- 
 ment of there company at Quinnipiac. They made 
 a journey there in the fiill of the year, built a small 
 hut, near what is now the corner of Church and 
 George streets and a little band of men passed the 
 cold winter of that year within it, In the early 
 spring the company sailed out of Boston harbor, and 
 
arriving safely at Quinnipiac they met under the 
 branches of a venerable oak to listen to their first 
 sermon in the place from Mr. Davenport. This was 
 on or about the 15th, of April 1638, the Lord's day. 
 The place was near the corner of George and Col- 
 lege streets, at which point small vessels were wont 
 in those by gone days, to come to anchor ! 
 
 The Quinnipiac sachem and his chief men finding 
 their varriors reduced by the ferocious incursions of 
 the Pequots and Mohawks, made a fair and lasting 
 treaty with the New Haven Colony, and ceding them 
 their lands received, beside personal assistance and. 
 protection in the wars, a valuable consideration in 
 useful articles of goods. 
 
 And. so the foundations began to be laid — laid in 
 the rough, but well laid. They fought the savages, 
 or traded with them as the case might require, and 
 became possessors of the soil ; cleared away the for- 
 ests ; killed of the wild game, and their descendants 
 are to day reaping where they sowed. 
 
 Hew Haven Laid Out. 
 The city of New Haven was laid out in squares, 
 very well laid out, far enough up from the tide, al- 
 though the water them flowed up to the Depot in 
 State street, and to the foot of College street near 
 where it now connects with George. Unfortunately 
 it was not laid out according to exact North and 
 South lines of the compass, and so Chapel street runs 
 a little out of true with East and West : Church 
 street a little out of true with North and Sou^. 
 
Having begun tlie work at the centre wrong, all the 
 lines squaring from it are more or less wrong and 
 you can seldom tell a j3erson by any street in the city 
 which way is due North, or which is due South. 
 Happily, we have some tall Spires and good vanes 
 all over the city, and we can find our way " due 
 North" and " due South " whenever we choose, 
 notwithstandings the streets. But we come now 
 to speak of one of the great points of interest in 
 New Haven as it now is. We allude to the Common, 
 or 
 
 Public Green. 
 The ''Green" as it is often familiarly called is one 
 of the beauties and attractions of the city. Occupy- 
 ing the very heart of it ; enclosed by a handsome iron 
 fence, with trees of majestic beauty on every side it 
 is justly regarded as a chief ornament of the city. 
 The good Fathers when they laid out the streets 
 around these acres and forever protected them for 
 the public good, showed a taste and a wisdom which 
 their descendants to all future time must be proud 
 of. At the present time, the public buildings on 
 these grounds, are the three Churches in one line, 
 facing the East on Temple street, which runs through 
 from North to South. There are three celebrated 
 Churches in New Haven, called respectively, ''The 
 Trinity," "The Centre Church," and "The North 
 Church." The street itself on which they flice, a 
 beautiful drive when the iron gates are thrown open 
 for it, is overspread with one of the finest arches fi-om 
 
the grand old Elms on either side, to be found in 
 America. And in the rear of these Churches on the 
 highest ground of the Square, near the west side, 
 and close to College street and the College edifices, 
 is the venerable and massive looking State House. 
 These are the only public buildings on the Green 
 now (save the little cottage for the Deer in the rear 
 of Trinity Church). The State House is a plain 
 edifice, more imposing than elegant, made of brick 
 and mortar, with marble steps, its immense columns 
 on either end betraying the sad encroachments, of 
 time and exposure and hard blows, but seen in the 
 moonlight of a soft summer evening the old 
 Parthenon structure is the admiration of all be- 
 holders. One or two things more about the Public 
 Square and we leave it for the present. By the way, 
 as it is in the centre of the city it is impossible al- 
 most to avoid striking it at some one or more 
 points. It is bounded by Church street on the East, 
 by Elm street on the North, by College street on the 
 West, and Chapel street on the South. Handsome 
 buildings, walls and shady trees are on every side and 
 along these streets. In the centre of the lower por- 
 tion of the Green there is a tall liberty pole on which 
 is displayed the glorious national flag on all suitable 
 occasions ; at the south East corner near the en- 
 trance, is the old unfailing fountain of pure water, 
 forced up from its cool source, by the pump handle s" 
 of yore, caught in and quaffed from a chained goblet, 
 good pure water wtere thousands quench their thirst. 
 
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 In front of the Churches there is a wide brick walk 
 stretching through from Chapel street on the South; 
 to Elm on the North. And now across Temple 
 street all along the great trees the Authorities have- 
 built a great many stout settees for the aged and 
 weary and idle. Around about these and in the shade, 
 and on the concrete walk many happy children and 
 nurses often amuse themselves as the burning sun- 
 beams lodge in the branches overhead. Immediately 
 in the rear of the centre Church is the beautiful 
 marble monument, enclosed with an iron railing,, 
 commemorative of the famous. 
 
 Regicide, Col. John Dixwell. 
 He is supposed to have been buried th:'re, along- 
 with Generals Wm. Goffe and Edward Whalley,. 
 whose (Whalley's) plain, time-worn headstone stand- 
 ing just out of the earth invites the curious to deci- 
 pher the wasting inscription. These men are the ones- 
 named in the celebrated history of the "Judges," by 
 President Stiles, reference to which is made further 
 on in the book. Where this monument stands, and 
 Whalley's grave stone crops out of the green earth ;. 
 and where now the Centre Church occupies the- 
 ground, and brick walks and concrete paths cross and 
 recross, was formerly the common burying ground of 
 New Haven. Time and growth built up the city 
 and the graves were removed or levelled down, some 
 remain under the Chm'ch and their occupants are 
 named on the marble tablets in the porch of the 
 house. But many graves were removed to the new 
 
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 Cemetery and the old "grounds" were moulded into 
 the park. At the first, New Haven was a little vill- 
 age, and the burying ground was rather on one side, 
 overrun with bushes and briers, where now the 
 ground it covered is valuable beyond the price ot 
 money. 
 
 The Attractions of Hew Haven. 
 They are to numerous to mention in a single pa- 
 ragraph, or to reach by a single drive. We shall 
 guide you to them one after another until we have 
 accomplished our task. And as there must be some 
 starting point in the city, from which to direct our 
 steps, to avoid confusion and error, we shall make 
 that point the Rail Road Depot, where most of 
 the visitors to New Haven, are supposed to be set 
 down. The Depot itself is a safe one and tolerably 
 well arranged though not altogether pleasant and 
 agreeable. As it is in the heart of the city, and the 
 locomotives, are continually driving through it vomit- 
 ing forth fire and smoke, it is well, we think, that 
 the track and platform, are situated at a lower 
 level than the street drives, and the side walks. It 
 is called by some persons rather sneeringly on this 
 account, the Subterranean. Many hard things are 
 often uttered of it, as we thmk undeserved, for 
 it cannot be denied that it is a thousand times safer 
 as it now is, than were it high up on the street, 
 where the trains would continually encounter the 
 passing vehicles of the Citizens. The Depot has 
 its Northern entrance on Chapel street, and its 
 
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 Eastern on Union street, on which it fronts. It 
 extends South to Fair street, and has an exit on 
 State street through the halls of the Merchants 
 Hotel, a large and commodious hotel in the same 
 block and immediately connected with the uj^per and 
 lower jilatforms of the Depot a convenient place 
 for the traveller to stop. The New Haven Depot 
 has a large tower on its North East Corner, supplied 
 with a goodbell, and an illuminated clock wich are a 
 great convenience, the clock especially in the eve- 
 ning. 
 
 Hacks and Cars. 
 
 On alighting from the cars in the Depot one passes 
 up the stairs to the Ladies and Gentlemen's saloon, 
 or into the Hotel, or makes his exit into the street. 
 He will find Hacks at the doors, and anxious and 
 generally very obliging hackmen ready to assist him 
 to any part of the city. The price is now fixed by the 
 Authorities at Fifty cents for one passenger and trunk 
 to any place within the city limits, and Thirty-five 
 cents each where there are two passengers and 
 trnnks. 
 
 Passing out of the Depot at the North end into 
 Chapel street one finds immediately before him the 
 Horse Rail Road, and the cars going up and down 
 every few minutes. The price in these is Six cents 
 and one must be careful to call for checks on chang- 
 ing cars, or if going to any great distance. This 
 rail road has been in operation for three or four 
 years and is ot great utility, and already generaiiy 
 
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 regarded as a public necessity. It takes travelers 
 from the hotels and from the Depot and the streets to 
 the steamboat landing, and there connects with the 
 evening steamboat train for Hartford and Si)ringfield. 
 It takes the early morning passenger from the New- 
 York night steamer, up into the heart of the city to 
 his home, or hotel, or College in season for breakfast, 
 and other morning occupations. It runs over to Fair 
 Haven, the Grand Oyster town of Connecticut it goes 
 up Chapel street near the famous old Tontine Hotel, 
 and the Post Office in Church street, passes the Park 
 Hotel, Trinity Church, the New Haven Hotel, the 
 College buildings to York street, where it branches 
 off and runs out to Westville, one of the busiest and 
 most thrivmg villages of the neighborhood, and 
 ending in that direction, near the base of West 
 Rock. On Chapel street it reaches far out towards 
 the west and of town. A good and well managed 
 horse rail road now connects the city with "West 
 Haven and Savin Rock. The cars leave the city 
 from the corner of Church and Chapel streets, 
 and are drawn by splendid horses. The cars are 
 roomy and attractive. Savin Rock is a delightful sum- 
 mer resort on the Beach. We speak of it further on. 
 Suffice to say, here, it vies with some of the best 
 places in the country for beauty of position, and 
 attractiveness as a bathing spot, and is resorted to 
 hy the citizens in large numljcrs. It is also frequent- 
 ed bv the inhabitants of the towns and villages 
 Surrounding New Haven. Large picnic parties, 
 
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 Sunday-schools, Day-scliools, Neighborhood groups, 
 Weddmg parties, etc., etc., during the prevalence of 
 the "heated term" make Savin Rocli aplace of amuse- 
 ment and joyful pastime. This place is also a sum- 
 mer-retreat for invaUds from city and country, who 
 desire its bathing conveniences and its quiet and 
 beauty. Moreover a great many persons from various 
 portions of the country, go there to live a few days 
 or weeks, as others go to Saratoga, the White Moun- 
 tains, Newport and Cape Maj^ 
 
 Beside the Savin Rock hotel, there is now on the 
 beach, and near the Rock, a very excellent new 
 public hotel called the Sea View House, also bathing 
 housess, and several well made cottages in the rear of 
 the Hotel, for private famiUes ; and grove grounds ; 
 with conveniences for Picnic accommodatioi>s, its 
 framed shelters, its long tables, seats, swings. Every 
 thing here is attractive. Near here also, is the 
 large and commodious Beach House. And then 
 back further through the groves is the new House, 
 called the Waverly, a most inviting spot. 
 
 From Broadway at the junction of Elm and York 
 streets, the new Horse Rail road to Centerville 
 commences. For another penny added to the six 
 already paid at the depot, you can extend your ride 
 in that direction one or two miles. Here you will 
 find the carriage works of Mr. Newhall ; the large 
 and extensive works of the New Haven Car Company, 
 James M. Townsend Esq., President; and the works 
 of the New Haven Saw Company, H. N. Jarvis, 
 
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 President, which is a new feature of New Haven 
 manufactures, and demonstrates the 'perfection to 
 which the ingenuity of American Artists in the 
 various trades and wares of commerce may arrive. 
 These works are very extensive already and addi- 
 tional improvements are contemplated. 
 
 Another horse rail road it is beUeved, will soon 
 run out to Whitneyville along the wide avenue 
 leading there a distance of two or three miles. Here 
 is the extensive Armory of Mr. Eli Whitney. The 
 New Haven Water Company .have their works located 
 here, controling an extensive lake of water from 
 which they supply the city. We expect that sooner 
 or later all the long avenues and wide streets of the 
 city will be supplied with the convenience of the 
 horse rail road. 
 
 Ect3ls. 
 Travellers may be certain to find in New Haven a 
 good hotel. The Nfw Haven House on Chapel 
 street, near the Colleges, at the corner of Chapel and 
 College streets, is regarded as one of the best hotels 
 in the city. It was kept for years by Mr, Allis, a very 
 kind and courteous landlord, who is now no more, 
 and is owned and managed by Mr. Mosely, fomerly of 
 the Massasoit House, Springfield, and the Brevoort 
 House, New York, who brings with him a rejDutation 
 for keeping a splendid house wherever he has had the 
 care of one heretofore. Then the old Tontine, corner 
 of Court and Church streets, reposing quietly in the 
 shade of the trees and facing the Green, ofl:ers you its 
 
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 comforts. And tlie Tremont House, corner of Court 
 and Orange streets, is a well-kept and well patronized 
 hotel. The Park House, is an old hotel, on Chapel 
 street, near Trinity Church. Its situation is central 
 and delightful, having the Public Square as is the 
 case with the Tontine, immediatly in its front. 
 The Union House, City Hotels and Merchant's Hotels 
 are immediately near the Depot, the Union opposite 
 the front entrance, the City opposite the South, and 
 the Merchants' on the West side of the Depot, under 
 the same roof. The Eagle Hotel near the foot of 
 State street, the Central House is on Elm street, 
 near Crown, the Madison House on State street near 
 Elm. The first three or four of these are the largest 
 and best Hotels in the city, and are the most patron- 
 ized by visitors and first-class boarders. 
 The Lunch. 
 
 Travellers, and strangers in the city, often inquire 
 for a good eating house or saloon, such as may be 
 found on every hand in New York, Boston and 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 Sanger's old stand on Union street, opposite the 
 depot on the East side, now kept by Fence, is a 
 convenient place to run in for a lunch, and below, 
 on the corner, is the long known and much cele- 
 brated Oyster and Dining house of C. W. Bradley. 
 The Temperance Dining Rooms are on State street, 
 above Chapel, as well as Cowell's Saloon, and some 
 other smaller places. 
 
 But we come to speak of 
 
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 LOCKWOOD'S City Hall Dining Rooms, 
 for Ladies and Gentlemen. 
 
 Lockwood is well known throughout the city. 
 He is perhaps the Chief Caterer for the public palate, 
 for steamboat excursions and for special entertain- 
 ments in New Haven, and occupies the rooms just 
 South of the City Hall and opposite the Park. He 
 is prepared to furnish weddings, parties, families etc., 
 with cakes ice creams and ices, also to furnish parties 
 with attentive waiters. Glass, China, and Silver for 
 all special entertainments. Ladies and Gentlemens 
 will find his dining rooms in nice and complete 
 order. Parties visiting the city will find this a good 
 place for meals, ice creams confectionary, etc. 
 
 In Orange street, below Chapel, there is an eating- 
 house, now kept by Bradley and Butler. 
 
 Mrs. Candee is well known in the city as making 
 a splendid coffee, and furnishing her guests with a 
 fine breakfast or dinner. Her rooms are in Orange 
 near Crown street. 
 
 Ford keeps an eating lunch on Church street, 
 below the Post Office, and on the opposite side 
 of the street. 
 
 The Clinton House on Church street, furnishes a 
 good table. 
 
 Mont's Dining Saloon is on Church street, at No. 
 16, and is much advertised. 
 
 Our old friend D. B. Sanger, has removed to South 
 End Grove, north of the Light House, and offers, 
 entertainment there. 
 
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 Eoadley's 
 
 Among this cltiss of dining saloons, one of the 
 most popular is that of George C. lloaclley. His 
 patrons are for the greater part the students of 
 Vale College, by whom the place is familiarly tcrni- 
 med "Hoad's". The saloon is on Chapel street, 
 nearly opposite the Old South College edifice, and 
 directly opposite the College grounds and fence where 
 the students in the shade or sun as the case may 
 warrant, are wont to lounge in leisure moments 
 for a song or a smoke. 
 
 At Hoadley's you can find a very neat, choice lunch. 
 He will give you whatever he attempts to supply, in 
 the nicest possible form. His bill of fare is select, and 
 costly. His rooms are filled with the best of every 
 article in his line of trade also, as fruit, confectionery 
 cigars, nuts, etc. And beside these he has an exten- 
 sive side department of books, especially college text 
 books, and all the stationery of both schools and 
 college. Also a large collection of micellaneous 
 goods. And the News papers are added, the dailies 
 and weeklies and monthlies. So that Hoadley's is 
 the great student's quarter. Whether hungry or not 
 every student sooner or later makes a bill there, 
 Base Ball furniture he has all along supplied, and 
 now he is largely interested in that of the modern 
 Velocipede, and has rented one of the fine rooms in 
 Music Hall for the convenience of his customers and 
 for the gratification of the public. His rooms are 
 the most central in the City, and Ladies find them- 
 
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 selves pleasantly accommodated there. Hoadley rents, 
 or sells the machines, as the case may be, and fur- 
 nishes only the best that are manofactured. The 
 running of velocipedes on the side walSis has been 
 prohibited by the Common Couucil and consequent- 
 ly this exercise and amusement is now mostly con- 
 fined to public halls and grounds, engaged for the 
 purpose. Many parties in New Haven have gone 
 into the business. There is one large hall, corner 
 Park and Crown streets. Another in Franklin. 
 Ice CitEAM AND Sthawberries. 
 These delicacies are to be found in many of the 
 eating houses named already, and in other numerous 
 places we have not, and cannot name. We are not 
 able to give as many names and places of all sorts of 
 business and amusement as we could desire. And 
 in regard especially to "creams," and "berries," we 
 have as an apology, that it is a shifting, and 
 limited trade with many, to say the least. But 
 one in want of an "ice," or of "berries," can find 
 them as we have said, above. Lockwood has a 
 reputation for good cream, so has Johnston below 
 the depot. In like manner Mrs. Candee is spoken of. 
 So are Ford and Stoddard, Ferry, the baker, on 
 State street. In fact, ice cream and strawberries 
 during the Strawberry season, abound in every part 
 of the city. 
 
 Mr. Ferry now advertises ice cream made by 
 steam, and offers to supply it in large quantities at 
 much reduced prices. 
 
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 Nuts, Oranges, Raisins, Bananas, Candies, &c. 
 
 Call on Beers' in State street ; Schoonmaker's on 
 Chapel street, near Church ; at W. A. Stoddarcrs 
 (late Mandevilles,) Glebe building, corner of Church 
 and Chapel Street. He has also the best of sod a and 
 small beer, cakes, pies, bread, confectionery etc. A 
 little further down on Church street and you come 
 to Dyas' C(»nfectionery. H. H. Snow's confectionery 
 is on Chapel street, below the Depot ; Douglass and 
 Sons, on State street. Snow and Douglass are old, 
 long established houses, and their manufacture and 
 sale of the goods in question is immense, and has re- 
 sulted favorably for both. 
 
 Eonnd the Green. 
 We expect to be occasionally, somewhat repeti- 
 tious, but this may press deeper on your mind, names 
 and places otherwise easily forgotten. We have 
 spoken of the Elms, and accidentally of the Public 
 Green. It is altogether important to give it a place 
 of much prominence in a work of this kind. The 
 early founders of the city appropriated it to the pur- 
 poses of a Park or Public Green for ever. At the 
 present time, this ground is enclosed with an iron 
 fence, and on all sides of it the giant elms throw 
 their arms aloft, and spread a dense soft shade on all 
 below. The only street that passes through the 
 ground, is Temple Street, and this is shut off from 
 public drives by the iron gates some part of the 
 time. But a very wide and level brick walk ex- 
 tends across it from Chapel street on the South, to 
 
Elm sfreet on the North immediately in front of the 
 three Churches, Trinity, Centre and North. The 
 whole square of the Lower Green, as it is called, or 
 the Easterly portion, is without shade, except on the 
 sides. Neither is there any building, monument, or 
 intervening object upon it, except the grand old 
 Liberty pole in the centre, one solitary gas lamp 
 post near to it, and the well known Town Pump in 
 the south-east corner. 
 
 These Churches face this broad walk, under the 
 shade of the lofty trees, and Trinity is over grown 
 with ivy being of stone, and is a remarkably fine look- 
 ing Church, though by no means ostentatious. The 
 Centre Church and the North Church are wooden 
 structures but very handsome edifices, and great 
 ornaments to the city. Immediatly in the rear of 
 the Centre Church, are the graves of the Regicidds. 
 Still further in the rear of the Centre Church is the 
 State House, standing on the elevated ground of the 
 West portion of the Green. The Public Square has 
 its west boundary in College street, immediately on 
 the west side of the State House. The Upper or 
 West Square, is, it is seen, occupied by these public 
 buildings also. Several lines of Elm and Maple trees, 
 some of them of more modern growth, run across the 
 whole surface from North to South, and furnish 
 during the summer season an excellent, cool shelter, 
 from the burning heat of the sun. 
 
 On the North side of the State House, viz, in the 
 corner of the Green at the intersection of Elm and 
 
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 College, there formerly stood the plain, old, brick 
 Methodist Church, where for many a year the first 
 Methodist congregation had met and prayed, and 
 where the order had greatly flourished. But having 
 removed across the street and erected a large and 
 imposing Church, there is now on the Green no other 
 building or edifice than those already enumerated. 
 
 College street is a well shaded street, bounding the 
 Green on the West side. It commences at George 
 street, on the South, and extends northerly to Grove 
 street. At the head of College street is the present 
 Shefiield Scientific School of Yale College, founded 
 by the generous munificence of Joseph E. Sheffield 
 Esq., of New Haven, whose elegant mansion is 
 near it, fronting on Hillhouse Avenue. 
 
 The Scientific School is an appendage of Yale 
 College. Here the students take a through course of 
 study, but yet differing in some respects from the 
 complete Academical department of the College 
 proper. The course of Mathematical study is one of 
 the most thorough in the country. 
 
 Up Chapel Street. 
 
 From the Depot you can take the cars, or a hack, or 
 walk if you picfer that mode, and go up town a long 
 distance in a straight line passing under the trees aa 
 usual, and meeting a variety of interesting attrac- 
 tions. Chapel street, as we have said before, is the 
 Broadway of New Haven : and the short portion of 
 it lying between State and Church street, or what is 
 really the distance of two blocks, is the centre of the 
 
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 fashionable dry goods trade in the city; so that 
 **down in Chapel street," or "up in Chapel street," 
 spoken by a resident in the street, outside the busy 
 tion of it, as well as by those residing in other sec- 
 portions of the city, is meant to refer to that portion 
 of the street, par excellence. Here the ladies throng in 
 carriages and on foot, to buy their silks, linens, laces 
 and thread, and all the adornments and necessary 
 articles to complete their toilette, and make the out- 
 fit of a beautiful lady. Thousands of dollars are 
 here daily paid in the purchase of goods by the fine 
 ladies of New Haven — not all for mere display and 
 ornament, but for many objects of family and domes- 
 tic utility. The New Haven National Bank, the 
 Yale National Bank, the City Bank, and the First 
 National Bank of New Haven, are located within 
 these bounds. Here also, is the Young Men's Insti- 
 tute and Reading Room. A great many Photo- 
 graph galleries are to be found here. Lawyers oftices, 
 Coal and Gas Offices, Bookstores, and News Offices, 
 Carpet Stores and Hardware Stores. The office of 
 the New Haven Daily Register^ Harness, Trunk, 
 and Hat Establishments, and a vast amount of busi- 
 ness of all sorts is here concentrated, and so attracts 
 crowds of buyers and strollers. Chapel street bounds 
 the Public Green on the South, from Church to Col- 
 lege street. The old Glebe Building still stands on 
 the corner of Church and Chapel, swarming with 
 tenants as of yore ; the most extensive one in point of 
 business, is Mr. John H. Benham, who has here his 
 
famons printing office, and publishes the Neio Haven 
 Directory Formerly we were ushered through 
 Bome of its dark and gloomy halls into the mys- 
 terious precincts of the Brothers' Society in Yale 
 College at its weekly sessions. (The College Courant 
 was lately published here, under the immediate care 
 of ^Mr. C. C. Chattield, a graduate.) Above and be- 
 low, the edifice is crowded with tenants. 
 
 Near this building, on the west side of it, is Mal- 
 ley's famous Dry Goods Store, and the Park Hotel, 
 Smith's building and hall, with store on the street, 
 an 1 the excellent grocery, late Mr. Wm. T. Bradley's. 
 Then we cross Temple street, and on the opposite 
 corner, is the old costly mansion of the Street ftimily, 
 and the late residence of Admiral Foote, from whence 
 he was taken to his grave. 
 
 Mr. Smith is just above the Park House on Chapel 
 street, and the store is heavily stocked with goods in 
 great variety of styles, which are sold as we believe, 
 it foir prices. Yt. Smith seems to be always selling 
 and always replenishing. Messrs. Camp & St. John 
 are a few doors to the east of him, and offer a great 
 variety of attractive goods. Shelley & Lyon on 
 Chapel street |neai' the colbges, do a very extensive 
 business in stoves, hot air furnaces, tin roef.ng, and 
 steam piping and jobbing. 
 
 Bradley's hat and fur store is very convenient to 
 the Depot, being on the corner of State and Chapel 
 streets, and Mr Bradley, like Thomas himself, is a 
 genial and honorable person to trade with. Below 
 
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 him a few doors on State street, is the fruit store of 
 Beers & Co. To say nothing of oranges, bananas and 
 other foreign fruits, we think we have never seen 
 Buch beautiful specimens of western apples as they 
 offered by hundreds of barrels last fall. 
 
 State street is full of grocery, iron, glass, flour, 
 shoe, cLithing, meat, fruit, stove, fish, and bread 
 stores, printing offices, book binderies, eating 
 houses, agricultural stores, auction houses, and wo 
 know not all. We should like to spread them all 
 out to the reader, but have not the room. 
 
 Further along is the new Chapel, erected by the 
 Centre (Cong.) Church ; and then the mansion of 
 Mrs. Allis, and Professor Henry Day ; also Dr. 
 Mallett's ; the Floral Garden of Robert Veitch,'^ the 
 paint store of Durgy & Co., the stores of Lewis, 
 Thill, Leavenworth, Ward and Mason. Above, on 
 the corner of College and Chapel streets, is the hand- 
 some New Haven Hotel, known as one of the first 
 hotels in town, and has often been resorted to by 
 many of our best citizens, and is sometimes spoken 
 of as the headquarters of the Republican Governor 
 when in town. It was on this ground in the olden 
 times, that General Washington was entertained, 
 and passed the night. On the outside of the Green 
 is College street, with its long front of college build- 
 
 * The fi'st bricks from the '= Kihis" of North Haven 
 used in New Haven, are said to have been, many years 
 since, in making the walls of Mr. Veitch's Floral Garden 
 Store on Chapel street. 
 
ing9. On the north side, the First Methodist 
 Church, and the residence of the Hon. Ralph I. In- 
 gersoU, one of New Haven's able and distinguished 
 men ; a great man at the bar, and in his younger 
 days, a leader in politics ; an honored representative 
 of the country, at the court of the Czar; now, feel- 
 ing somewhat the effects of age, and measuring jnore 
 carefully the ground, as he walks yet erect, over it. 
 Mrs. Foster's old mansion is here, and Mrs. Eli 
 Blake's, and Dr. N. B. Ives' ; and if we go down to 
 Church street, we pass the substantial and rich look- 
 ing edifice of Thomas R. Trowbridge Esq., finely lo- 
 cated opposite the central part of the Green. 
 
 On the East, is the St. John's block of fine dwellings 
 on the corner of Elm and Church ; the elegant and 
 costly City Hall, the law buildings connected with 
 Yale College, and the old, famous, world renowned 
 Tontine Hotel, We are sorry it has lost some of its 
 ancient celebrity, but it is still regarded as a good 
 hotel, embosomed among magnificent Elms, and 
 looking directly out on the beautiful face of the com- 
 mon. 
 
 On the corner where Church and Chapel again 
 unite, there is the substantial edifice known as 
 the Exchange building, used wholly for stores and 
 ofiices. Here the lawyers, brokers, and men who are 
 wide awake on the speculations of the day, throng 
 in great numbers. Every room is occupied, and 
 rents run high. On the opposite corner, is the new 
 and beautiful edifice of a somewhat similar charac- 
 
tcr known as Cutler Corner, and opposite on Church 
 street, we reach agam the old Glebe building. 
 
 "We have now gone round the Green, and starting 
 on a new line, we go down Church street about one 
 block, going past many German clothing and fancy 
 stores, grocery stores and eating houses ; Booth's 
 auction house on the East side of the street ; the 
 drug store of Geo. W. Smith ; Walker's extensive 
 cabinet and furniture store ; Gray's furniture, crock- 
 cry, and miscellaneous goods ; Bostwick's saddle and 
 harness store ; Hoadley's building once owned by 
 Mr. Brewster, and called by him the Franklin House, 
 with a gilt head of the old philosoprer in front. 
 Before this however, it was used as a hotel, kept by 
 Butler. It was the best hotel in New Haven, when 
 President Monroe came through here, and dined 
 there* But time works great changes, and Butler's 
 Hotel after various changes, is now a somewhat an- 
 tiquated edifice with shops beneath on the street, 
 and Mr. Hoadley's carriages occasionally carted oflf, 
 where once perhaps, a dozen were piled together on 
 the wharf, awaiting their turn of freightage. This 
 is Hoadley's building. It has seen great men in its 
 day pass over its tlireshold. It has been a popular 
 
 * President Monroe said it was the best dinner he ever 
 gat down 10, and Butler, who liad prepared the dinner, 
 and who wns a roiigli speaking man, rei>lied with one of 
 
 liis fjreat woids, "J , I am now ready to die," for 
 
 Butler was indeed filmed for Ids dinners, and this eompli- 
 nieiit from the Picsident of the United States, completely 
 satislied his ambition. 
 
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 and well known public nouse in ths City of Elms. 
 We are told that Mr. HoacHey is about to erect on 
 the grounds now occupied by the old building, one 
 of the finest structures in New Haven. 
 
 The well known and largely patronised grocery 
 store of Chas. H. Oaks, is immediately opiDosite. 
 Mr. Oaks, is one of a class of judicious and persist- 
 ent advertisers. He never lets his store be forgotten. 
 But every day the newspapers tell their readers of 
 something that Oaks has in his store, and he will 
 sell it cheap ; and the price is often given. He has 
 also added a tea and coffee department to his gen- 
 eral trade, and the whole business bears the stamp 
 of success. And below is the new store of Daily, 
 doing a brisk and good trade ; and the fish rooms of 
 Mr. Hyde, one of our New Haven enterprising busi- 
 ness men, especially in this department of trade and 
 6j)eculation. 
 
 On the west side of Church street, near Crown, 
 is the Government Post Office. This is a very sub- 
 stantial edifice, and cost the government a large sum 
 of money. But Uncle Sam is used to this, and seems 
 to take pride in paying generously for all he receives. 
 The Post Offiice building is of the Portland sand 
 stone, with wide granite steps, and is arranged to 
 give the greatest accommodation to the office itself, 
 and to the public. Beside the lock and key boxes, 
 it has about two thousand private boxes for the pub- 
 lic generally ; a ladies' department for the delivery 
 of letters, also a gentleman's ; a money order and re- 
 
ceipt department, a stamp delivery, and a handsome 
 side office, for private business with any parties who 
 may call. Hon. N. D. Sperry has been the Post- 
 master eight years, and has a re-appointment under 
 the present administration. 
 
 In the rooms above, are large Custom House ac- 
 comodations for the office and business of the Col- 
 lecter of the Port. Hon. James F. Babcock has ful- 
 filled the duties of Collector, for the last eight years, 
 and on his retirement from its responsible cares, 
 Professor Cyrus Northrop has been ajjx^ointed as his 
 successor. 
 
 Here also, there are ample quarters assigned the 
 government for holding the regular terms of the 
 United States Courts. 
 
 It will be remembered, that the Post Office build- 
 ing is on Church street, below Chapel, and is near 
 the corner of Church and Crown. South of this cor- 
 ner toward George street, we come to the old church 
 of the Roman Catholics, known as St, Mary^s, 
 Father O'Brien the priest, has long been over it, and 
 among other things, has ever warmly advocated the 
 cause of temperance. 
 
 On the corner of Church and Crown streets, oppo- 
 site, is the Central Hotel formerly the Old Temperance 
 Hotel of Mr. Jones. Below this is now the Dining 
 Saloon of Ford ; the new grocery store of Dailey, and 
 several other places of business ; and we now come 
 to the head of Church street, where it intersects with 
 George, the latter crossing it at right angles here, 
 
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 and so of course, running easterly and westerly. 
 Here also is the head of Meadow street, and Con- 
 gress Avenue. The latter leads directly over to 
 Washington Hill, formerly Sodon Hill, and to the 
 Hospital, etc., and is one of the main routes to West 
 Haven by the old road through Ailing Town. Mea- 
 dow street runs nearly North and South. Taking 
 your way down this famous old street you reach the 
 harbor where on the banks of what was formerly the 
 shore of this part of the bay, stands the old wood 
 structure known as the Jew's Building, which, years 
 ago, was erected by its singular proprietor as a ref- 
 uge for the Jews, or a stopping place on their way 
 to the Holy Land, 
 
 You pass the former residence of the late Henry 
 Trowbridge Esq., well known as one of the most 
 successful West Indian Merchants of the city, living 
 in quite plain, unostentatious style, though in a very 
 comfortable and inviting house, and nearly opposite 
 the residence of his business competitor Wm. Forbes 
 Esq. Both gentlemen are now deceased. From the 
 foot of Meadow street you turn to the right and 
 proceed by West Water street across the dyke to 
 Columbus street, and on the way, you pass the Col- 
 uml3us street Church, now occupied by the Reformed 
 Church Society, a solid elegant stone structure built 
 by the late Gerard Hallock Esq. and Thomas R. Trow- 
 bridge Esq. Directly after, you come to the new and 
 handsome West Church edifice, lately erected on the 
 corner of Howard Avenue and Columbus Street by 
 
the Congregationalists. In this direction you drive' 
 on to the pleasant village of West Haven and Savin 
 Rock by the New Road, and also by the long, plea- 
 sent Howard Avenue to the water at Oyster Point, 
 going by the " Castle," i. e. the residence of the 
 Hallock's. 
 
 There, for twenty-five years, while editor of the 
 New York Journal of Commerce, Mr. Hallock made 
 tis home, and regularly returned to it from his 
 New York office at the close of each weeks labor. 
 But the property has now passed into other hands, 
 and the New York and New Haven Rail Road 
 Company are now building their new works for car 
 houses and machinery, on the premises, and on sur- 
 rounding lands which they have lately purchased. 
 All this section of the city is now rapidly filling up, 
 the property has come into market, been bought and 
 sold and run off smartly, and water lots extending oa 
 these low, even grounds, fifty and a hundred rods to 
 the Channel, have of course commanded inquiry and 
 been readily bought in. Speculation in real estate 
 in New Haven has its fever heat every little while, 
 and first and second buyers often make a good trans- 
 action where the first appearances were against 
 them. 
 
 On West Chapel street, Mr. Burton Mallory has a 
 magnificent mansion, almost palatial. It has been 
 much enlarged, has ample grounds, with fountains 
 playing, and is stylish in the best sense of the word. 
 Mr. Bliss, Mr. Nelson Hotchkiss, Mr. Daniel Trow- 
 
bridge, Mr. Malley, Mr. Elihu Sperry, Mr. Fabrique, 
 and Benjamin Noyes Esq., have also handsome and 
 attractive houses ; and there are many others in all 
 that section of tlie city, especially on Whalley Avenue. 
 
 In case of accident, or any need of a doctor, there 
 is a drug store on Chapel street, near the depot, with 
 an entrance also on State street, kept by Mr. C. B. 
 Whittlesey, who is also a good doctor were he to 
 choose to practice. There is another famous drug 
 store by Noyes, further up Chapel street, called 
 "Apothecaries Hall." Then on the corner ot 
 Church and Chapel, is one by Klock. These are all 
 near the depot. Above are Leavenworth, Beers, 
 Dickerman, Dow ; and on York, Olmstead. 
 
 Below the depot, there is one near by, known as 
 Daggett's. 
 
 Good physicians reside near ; Dr. Tyler on Wooster 
 street, Dr. Park ; Dr. Whittemore's office is in the 
 Register's new building. Chapel street ; Dr. Hubbard. 
 Dr. Sanford, Dr. Bacon, of the Medical Department, 
 Yale ; Drs. Townsend in Tontine block, Levi Ives on 
 Temple and Elm streets ; Dr. Daggett, Wall street ; 
 Dr. Pierpont, York street ; Drs. Carrington and 
 Terry on Chapel ; Drs. Jewett Ward and Skiff, 
 (Homeopathic) College street ; Dr. Foote (Homeo- 
 pathic) Temple street; Dr. Paul Swift (Homeo- 
 pathic) Chapel street, below the depot. 
 
 And among the dentists are Dr. Elias Strong, near 
 Yale College on Chapel street; one of our enterpris- 
 ing and most popular dentists; gentlemanly and 
 
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 prompt in all business matters, and a good and ge- 
 nial friend. Dr. Mallet on Chapel street ; Dr. Hall 
 on Church ; Dr. Ely D. Smith, and Riggs, etc. 
 Long Wharf. 
 Starting from the Depot near the comer of State and 
 Chapel street, a drive down Slate street, passing the 
 Iron, Grocery, Glass, Hardware, Fruit, and Flour 
 stores of leading jobbing houses, and the handsome 
 Banking Houses of three or four of these moneyed 
 institutions, you reach the head of Long Wharf 
 where the track of the New York and Kew Haven 
 Railroad crosses it, and near which is their large 
 engine and work shop, with its elevated dome. 
 Long Wharf has a very interesting history of its 
 own. A long and valuable document prepared by 
 Thomas R. Trowbridge Esq., for the New Haven 
 Colony Historical Society may be found on their files, 
 and is well worth perusing. Mr. Trowbridge being 
 well qualified by his position to prepare such a history. 
 This paper tells when the wharf was commenced, 
 and the great amount of labor upon it, and the 
 heavy cost of money it has taken to build it as it 
 now stands. It stretches far down into the harbor, 
 and the curving channel comes very near its lowest 
 extremity. From the head of the wharf you can 
 take an easy and luxurious drive along through 
 East Water street to the old Pavilion House, as the 
 hotel there was formerly called, now a private dwell- 
 ing or tenement house. You will drive on by the 
 side of the water at the head ol the li arbor, IJi© 
 
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 entire distance, passing some very fine dwellings,, 
 and through a section of the active business part 
 of the town in lumber, coal, and manufactures ; 
 among others the extensive hardware works of 
 Sargeant & Co. 
 
 Arrived here, you can go on down to the steam- 
 boat Dock, seeing the head of the bay, the Hartford 
 and Springfield Rail Road and Freight Depot, the 
 New York and New Haven noble steamers, their 
 wharf, depot, etc., and also the crowded coal vessels 
 unloading at their docks, the eastern terminus of the 
 Horse Raikoad from Fair Haven and Westville 
 through the city ; the much talked of Tomlinsoji's 
 Bridge, over which one rides to East Haven and 
 Beacon Hill, and for a long and beautiful drive as 
 we have already mentioned, to Fort Hale and the- 
 Light House on the Eastern Shore. 
 
 From Tomlinson's Bridge one looks away to the 
 north over a magnificent scenery of mountain,. 
 lowland, and lake, and can rest his eye at the same 
 time on the beautiful village of Fair Haven, on the 
 opposite side of the Harbor. Below this, is the opem 
 harbor and sound. 
 
 It is not beyond the memory of some men now 
 alive, when Long Wharf extended but a little way 
 toward the present channel of the bay. Then there 
 were no dwellings or very few in exposed situations 
 as low as Fleet street, and along the original chan- 
 nel up into the city, where the small craft anchored. 
 In early times, the sea came in roaring under the 
 
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 eastern gales, and chafing against the land on "Water 
 street, Fleet street, George, Crown, and Chapel 
 streets. And it is not unlikely, that some vessel has 
 stranded in a fearful night of storm, just off" Bacon's 
 present wharfage grounds, or the Trowbridge,s or 
 Armstrong's blocks or even Goodsell's. "Who that 
 has seen within the past year, as may be seen oc- 
 casionally every year, the fearful dashing of the 
 tempest waves, driven in their fury high and dry 
 over the lower end of Long "Wharf, tossing the an- 
 chored vessels grinding and groaning on the firmly 
 sunken timber and walls of the wharf, can for a 
 moment doubt how it may have fared with a vessel 
 driven as supposed into the harbor by such a South 
 Easter, and no friendly wharf to cling to ? 
 
 But now, in addition to the natural protection of 
 the Harbor, the city has been built out over the 
 low water spaces, and Long "Wharf stretches its 
 great length out into the very midst of the harbor, 
 and Lights and Buoys and Beacons mark the chan- 
 nel and its depth, and the mariner brings in safely 
 his plunging bark to anchorage off" the dock. A 
 great importing and exporting business has been 
 done on this wharf, and yet to some extent continues ; 
 the Towners, Trowbridges, Hotchkisses and Arm- 
 strongs are engaged in it, and some others, espec- 
 ially in the coasting trade. If you wish to see con- 
 fusion worse confounded, to hear a bedlam of angry 
 or excited voices and clamor, go down Long "Wharf 
 in mud time, when several vessels are hastily load- 
 
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 ing and unloading and panting horses stagger 
 under their heavy drafts, and smart beneath the 
 hish of drivers. A day's work at sucli a time on 
 Long Wliart means a great deal done. 
 
 On tlie wharf near the New York and New Haven 
 raih-oad crossing, is the large wholesale grocery of 
 G. W. Gooclsell ; and near him is the store and stor- 
 age rooms of W. J. Goodsell. N. W. Bacon, the 
 great flour dealer, is near by, and the house of Hen- 
 ry Trowbridge' Sons, importers ; the Brothers Arm- 
 strong, also, and Hotchkiss. 
 
 Cruttenden's flour store is on the corner above 
 opposite the old Custom House square. Further up 
 in Fleet street is the head quarters of the York 
 street bakery, and a feed store. 
 
 On the corner of Whiting and State streets is Bown's 
 "well known coal office and yard. By great adroit- 
 ness in management, and continued, extensive adver- 
 tisements, " Bown's " has become a very familiar 
 name in the coal trade of New Haven. On the cor- 
 ner of State and George streets, is the extensive 
 wholesale flour store of N. W. Merwiu and Co. The 
 most v.iluabie and highly prized brands of flour put 
 up in the country, North, South, East, and West, 
 can be found there at wholesale prices. By fairness, 
 honesty and industry, they have built up an exten- 
 Bive business. 
 DiiivE Down Chapel St., East to The Whakf. 
 
 We now return to the Depot. From the doorway 
 of the Station House, on the north or Chapel street 
 
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 end, you can step out on the bridge that here crosses 
 the street, and take a seat in one of the horse rail- 
 road cars for the Dock, or you can hire a hack, go 
 on foot, or in any other mode you can find, and may 
 choose; but you had better ride than walk, on ac- 
 count of the distance. It is about a mile and a half 
 fi-om one point to the other. Immediately near 
 the station, is the Merchant,s Exchange Hall, for- 
 merly Brewster,s Hall ; The Palladium printing-office, 
 the Western Union Telegraph office. Benjamin and 
 Ford's fine jewelry and watch establishment ; the 
 Elm City National Bank ; the Chapel Street Congre- 
 gational church, the Rev. Wm. T. Eustis late its popu- 
 lar and long tried i)artor ; the house of Adams Ex- 
 press Co., the confectionery of H. H. SnoAV, Edward 
 S. Rowland's store, etc. Riding down Chaj^el street 
 from this point, you pass the Universalist church, 
 formerly known as the " first Baptist," St. Paul's, at 
 the corner of Chapel and Olive. There are several 
 very fine residences in this vicinity ; those of Edwin 
 Marble, Nelson Hotchkiss, Judge Betts, Chas. Robin- 
 son Esq., etc., and the beautifully shaded park, 
 called Wooster Square (or the New Green), opposite 
 which is the classical and military school of Wm. H. 
 Russell Esq. All down this long drive of a mile or 
 so, there are some handsome dwellings ; for instance, 
 Ex Gov. James English, Mrs. King's, and Mr. T. 
 Towner's ; and there are vea-y extensive works of 
 manufacture. Among these the carriage house of 
 Lawrence , Bradley and Pardee, is especially worth 
 
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 noticing; also the Iron works of the brothers Sault, 
 all of which we mention elsewhere in our pages. 
 
 The railroad at the head of Chapel street runs in 
 to East street near the water's edge, bends to the 
 right, and then presently to the left, and you are 
 soon set down again at the Steamboat dock. There 
 is a good street for a carriage drive, abounding in 
 comfortable and some of them handsome dwellings, 
 and very desirable for situation, next south of 
 Chapel street, and parallel with it, it is Wooster street. 
 It is a famous old thoroughfare. And the next 
 long paralel street south of it is East Water. 
 
 If you wish to visit Fair Haven, now that you are 
 in East street and near the new bridge at the foot 
 of Chapel street, drive over it, and so by the south 
 end of the village go up into the town. It is a large 
 growmg village, built uj) in the first place by its 
 Oyster business, having little manufacturing inter- 
 ests, and now, is spreading itself on the eastern side 
 of the Quinnipiac, on its sloping hill sides and sum- 
 mits, and on the whole lace of the plain upon the 
 west side of the stream, until it shows you a spot of 
 beauty, a delightsome retreat, the chosen residence 
 of many wealthy and distinguished men. Hon. 
 James F. Babcock, and the Hon. Charles Ives have 
 erected on the heights above the river, beautiful 
 houses overlooking the valley, the western hills and 
 the harbor. Rev. J. S. C. Abbot, the historian, re- 
 sides here. Mr. Maltby has a wide and rich home- 
 stead on the plain. Gentlemen from New York are 
 
buying nncl locating here ; and so Fair Ilavon, with 
 its tall spires, its noble river, and its bridges, its 
 schools, its shipi^ing ; beautiful in situation ; invites 
 the stranger to ride over and enjoy it. 
 The Drives. 
 Take the cars, or the hacks to Savin Rock. 
 This is a beautiful sea-side resort. We have spoken 
 of it elswhere. The sand-beach from near the 
 mouth of West River, runs west for some miles, 
 gently curvmg in and out, as the tides have washed 
 away or accumulated, but at a certain point, and 
 that, Savin Rock, the tidal waves do nothing but 
 foam and rage. Here is a rocky, ragged, little 
 promontory, rising twenty or thirty feet (more or 
 less) from the water at low tide to the edge, and 
 gradually rising higher as the land recedes, and the 
 paths and groves spread on either hand. Close in 
 on the East of this tree-crowned promontory, over- 
 shadowed by its trees, is the Savin Rock Hotel. 
 It is an extensive, attractive, and weH arranged 
 House ; with long verandahs, fine parlors, easy 
 lounges and seats, extensive garden walks, and is a 
 great resort in summer and winter, by the sea- 
 bathers, the epicures, the invalids, the travellers,— 
 whole families drive there, all the leisure enjoying, 
 pleasure seeking, strangers go there. And on the 
 brow of the promontory in the summer, what a re- 
 viving breeze comes wafted from the bosom of the 
 water that perchance is now rolling in headlong 
 from the outer sea. How many a one has sat 
 
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 dowTi here and forgot his sorrows, and perhaps, has 
 risen up and gone far off upon tlie ragged rocks be- 
 yond, and plunged into the rolling waves for sport. 
 How many may be -seen in groups along the beach, 
 arrayed for the water, and running to plunge into 
 its crested edges. We advise all who love the sea, 
 and the beach, and a pleasant day among the groves, 
 and the comforts of a nice Hotel, to visit Savin Rock. 
 The Horse Cars with elegant horses, run from the 
 corner of Chapel and Church street every half hour, 
 and at some seasons of the year, every fifteen 
 minutes. The distance is not less than four or five 
 miles, and excursion tickets are sold for thirty cents. 
 The hacks can be hired at reasonable rates, and 
 are generally handsome and comfortable vehicles, 
 drawn by good horses, sometimes very gay and no- 
 ble beasts, and the drivers are attentive and careful. 
 On the route to Savin Rock, one crosses the track of 
 the New York, New Haven, and Boston railroad ; 
 he rides near the residence of the late Gerard Hal- 
 leck Esq., the well known Editor of the New York 
 Journal of Commerce, and enjoys a very fair view 
 of the Harbor of New Haven, the Light House, etc. 
 He is also taken through the beautiful village of 
 West Haven, one of the sweetest on Earth. We re- 
 member hearing the venerable President of Yale 
 College, the late Jeremiah Day, say, that he had 
 always thought West Haven one of the pleasantest 
 towns to live in; and safest for bringing up a 
 family, he liad ever known. In liis time, it was in- 
 
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 deed remarkaljly quiet and free from the frivolities 
 and temptations of many other places. And even 
 now, it presents much of its former beauty and 
 attractiveness. Its venerable elms arching the 
 streets, those long elm-covered streets ; its common 
 as green as an hundred years ago, and its tasteful 
 mansions, assuring you of comfort, happiness, and 
 thrift, on the part of the owner and occupants. 
 
 We have dropped these few words of West Haven 
 on our ride with you to Savin Rock, where the 
 view as we go, both sea-ward and land-ward, will be 
 delightful all the way. 
 
 In West Haven, the Buckle Manufacturing Com- 
 pany does a very large business, and also the Brass 
 key and wheel works of Tuttle and Hotchkiss. 
 There is also here a shipyard ; and while we write, 
 a vessel of nine hundred tons on the ways is getting 
 ready for launching. 
 
 If you wish for a j^leasant summer retreat on the 
 shore of the Sound, where there are boats for sailing, 
 where there are good fishing and bathing, and 
 where the best of sea food may be always enjoyed ; 
 you can find them all along the shore, from the 
 Light House on the East to Saybrook, and on the 
 West to Bridgeport, and beyond. At short dis- 
 tances from each other, there are large commodious 
 houses and hotels, private boarding houses and 
 bathing conveniences, where families and individuals 
 and large pic-nic parties, may find accomodations, 
 where fifty, and from that to an hundred persona 
 
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 may receive the most polite attention, or wliere they 
 ■v^dll find true enjoyment, and a happy refuge from 
 the noise and torrid heat of a crowded and fashion- 
 able town. Savin Rock on the beach at West Haven 
 we have mentioned. Charles' Island, is a sweet 
 place just off the main land at Milford, ten or 
 twelve miles from New Haven and famous for ex- 
 cursions all through the summer months. 
 Charles' Island. 
 
 Here you will find a large and convenient hotel, 
 and the best accomodations either for the day or the 
 week. There is Merwin's on the beach, south of 
 Savin Rock, and splendid clam chow'der for you if 
 you like it, and oysters, and eels, and blue fish. 
 You go over to Charles' Island by way of " Old Mil- 
 ford," as it is often called, rowing over to it from the 
 mainland, or steaming there by boat from the city 
 of New Haven, or from any other place on the shore. 
 
 Fishing parties and excursions at the appropriate 
 seasons, often sail out upon the Sound in fishing 
 smacks and yachts, in search of good fishing among 
 the islands, or out farther toward the open sea. 
 Sometimes they go out as far as the Eastern boun- 
 dary of Long Island to Montauk Point looking for 
 Blue Fish and Black Fish. They are frequently 
 successful and continue absent several days and 
 nights, passing the night usually aboard their own 
 yachts, and return laden with spoils. 
 
 At a point west of Savin Rock, known as Oyster 
 river is the old Clark Farm, which from the ear- 
 
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 liest settlement of New Haven was in the possession 
 of this family. Their descendants, as we learn from 
 one familiar with the grounds in early life, still hold 
 them. They owned this farm when slavery was yet 
 in Connecticut. Old "Mack" a colored slave be. 
 longed to this family. They were obliged by law to 
 support him, or to see that he did not become a 
 town charge. Old " Mack " was a fiddler. He was 
 known in all the neighboring towns, and for a 
 " York Shilling " would play for a group of dancers 
 wherever the old or the young would congregate for 
 the purpose. " Old Mack" and his times have now 
 passed away. The old fiddle, and the noisy, merry 
 dance, have given place to the "Violin" and the 
 graceful Cotillion, the " Bkass Band " and the 
 Promenade. 
 
 From New Haven, by way of Church street, you 
 can drive to Whitneyville, and along the diversified 
 banks of the strenms above it, through the charming 
 little parish of Whitneyville to Centreville, where is 
 the famous boy's school of the Rev. Mr. Everest, 
 clergyman, teacher, scholar, poet, editor, and com- 
 piler of the poets of Connecticut, — and so, on to Ham- 
 den, Mount Carmel parish, named from the remark- 
 able rocky summit, cleft and yawning, which rises 
 almost perpendicularly at the head of the plain on 
 which Hamden is built, and through which village 
 the canal railroad to Northampton passes. Above 
 are Cheshire, Southington, Farmington, etc. These 
 are all good old farming towns of Connecticut, and 
 
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 have been the birth places or residences of some of 
 her great and good men. Admiral Foote was a 
 native of Cheshire. Rev. Noah Porter D. D, a resi- 
 dent pastor in Farmington over fifty years. 
 The Light House. 
 
 The Light House is, as it now stands, a newly 
 made structure, having been carried up several feet 
 higher than the old Light. It occupies a far out 
 point of the rocky promontory from which it guards 
 the mariner, and shows a steady red light. Coming 
 in from New York on the steamboats you feel as if 
 almost home when the bright light off New Haven 
 harbour rises to view, and when you round into the 
 channel, close under its glare, you are thanl^ful that 
 after a few more windings of the tortuous channel 
 the good steamer will land you safely at her dock 
 without further need of the Light House. 
 
 There is a very picturesque and agreeable ride 
 from " the steamboat dock " on the East side of 
 town by way of Tomlinson Bridge, to the old Fort 
 Hale, half-way down the harbor, and to the Light 
 House which is five miles down the channel, at the 
 mouth of the harbor. The ride to the breast work 
 on the hill called Fort "Wooster is also included in 
 this. The old breast work is said to have been made 
 during the war of 1812. It is now overgrown w^ith 
 grass, but is plainly distinguishable. Tradition has 
 it, that a British man of war fired a heavy gun from 
 sea, and killed a man standing on this ground, and 
 that the breast work was named after him. From 
 
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 this height you have a view of Faulkner's Island in 
 the Sound, and a very extensive view of the water 
 on each side of you. Fort Hale was cut up rudely 
 during the Revolution, and improved from time to 
 time until our last war, when it was entirely rebuilt, 
 the old walls torn up, and strong, handsome earth 
 works, with all the modern ideas of fort building, 
 put in their place. A ride in this direction is very 
 pleasing and exhilirating, and it takes you down^to 
 the Cove house, the light house. 
 
 About half way from the bridge to the light house, 
 a little back from the Cove, is the well known and 
 hospitable mansion of the Townsends ; where the 
 family bearing this name, so well known among us 
 now, had their origin. The family name is held 
 in high regard in New Haven. 
 
 Beloio Fort Hale, near the Light House, is a summer 
 retreat of great beauty and attraction, called the 
 Gkove House. Near by is the Cove House. It is 
 much resorted to for its fishing, near ; its beautiful 
 groves and conveniences for agreeable pleasures of 
 many kinds in the woods, and house, and alleys, etc,, 
 along the shore. The sea air is refreshing. It 
 sh>ws a charmingly curved beach more than a mile 
 in extent, and called Morris Cove. This is one of 
 the lovely spots on the whole coast. Here an hund- 
 dred guests can find ample accommodation, and 
 families be entertained by the season. Bbanford 
 Point can accommodate one hundred and fifty guests 
 It is further along the coast below the Branford 
 
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 depot. Six or eight miles from the city is Double 
 Beach. Hundreds, if not thousands, visit this pleas- 
 ant bathing, boating, and fishing quarter, every 
 season. Pine Orciiakd is also attractive. So is 
 Indian Neck, two miles from Brantford depot. 
 And Stony Cheek near the depot of the New Lon- 
 don track. Splendid shell fish are taken here. It 
 is a favorite resort for those who \,'ould combine 
 quiet with recreation. It is twelve miles from the 
 city. Then the world renowned Sachem's Head, 
 near the Guilford depot some fifteen or sixteen miles 
 from the city. The Pavilion at Guilford Point is 
 largely resorted to. Families visit it for the season 
 from many of the cities, New York, Boston, etc. 
 
 Guilford, ]\Iadison, North Branford, Clinton, on 
 the east of the city, are towns famous in the olden 
 history of Connecticut, and £0 on to Saybrook at the 
 mouth of the great river, where the shad fishery of 
 the Spring becomes the exciting question of the 
 hour. From the heights along this shore, you see 
 the waves as they roll in from Montauk point and 
 the open sea. 
 
 But some of the islands and retreats are more 
 quiet for the comfort of families and individuals, 
 carrying along with them, piety, temperance and 
 the domestic order of home. Money Island, one of 
 the Thimble Island group, is a place that hitherto 
 has been of the latter class. Mr. Dickerman has 
 erected several plain rude structures on the Island 
 and can accommodate in the simple manner of the 
 
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 place, an hundred visitors. Families go to Money 
 Island, engage a cabin, or a tent, procure whatever 
 they need for housekeeping, and abide there as long 
 as they choose at small expense. Boating, fishing, 
 and healthful rambles and amusements, till up the 
 time in the most cheerful manner. It should be 
 stated perhaps in this place, that Money Island is 
 one of those celebrated and attractive spots where 
 Captain Kidd, of notorious fame, is said to have 
 buried a large amount of treasure. The money has 
 never yet been found though much sought after, so 
 that the chances of finding it are the greater, as the 
 ground to be examined is less. We hope that some 
 persevering excavator will finally succeed and prove 
 himself the lucky seeker. 
 
 At the present time the Shore Line Rail Road 
 from New Haven to Boston, passes through nearly 
 or quite all these towns along the shore to New 
 London. 
 
 To sum up these places on the east side of town, 
 and say a further word or two of them if desired ; 
 they are Double Beach, quite in the South "West 
 corner of Branford ; Branford Point, at the head of 
 the bay ; Indian Neck further down, and Money 
 Island. 
 
 Stony Creek, Roger''s, Webb's, Governor''s Island^ 
 Thimble Islands, Fisherniaii's Island, Sachem^'s Head, 
 below the Guilford Depot, Mulberry Point, Guilford 
 Point, etc. These places all afi'ord resorts for those 
 Bceking the seashore on excursions of pleasure, or 
 
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 for health. Some of them offer large accommodatioua 
 for amusements, dancing, billiards, bowling, fishing, 
 etc. 
 
 The New York and New Haven Hailroad , par emi- 
 nence, is the old through hne to Boston, via Hartford 
 and Springfield. It is too well known to be endorsed 
 by us, still it is so highly apjoreciated we love to 
 si^eak of it. There is hardly a raikoad in the coun- 
 try that fulfils all its Table better, to say the least of 
 it. It transports immense freights of ^goods and of 
 passengers, and its arrival at our depot on time, say 
 at eleven o'clock a.m. through express for Boston ; 
 and at two o'clock p. m. through express for New 
 York, is looked for usually to wuthin one or two 
 minutes ; rarely is it five or ten minutes late. Here 
 there are branches from it both North and East. 
 The Canal railroad to the North, and the Shore 
 Line road to Boston on the East. But the old line 
 goes direct to Hartford and Springfield. Then it 
 goes East to Boston through "Worcester. 
 
 Of course the towns on the north side of New 
 Haven feel the benefit of this road. Meriden is the 
 stopping place of the express trains. It is the half 
 way point between New Haven and Hartford. From 
 being a quiet old fashioned farming town, IMeriden 
 has become a thrivmg city, w^th its banking insti- 
 tutions, its insurance offices, its splendid churches; 
 its manufactures of various sorts involving heavy 
 capital ; its daily newspapers ; numerous trades are 
 there, stores and shops are on every hand ; large 
 
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 hotels ; the Connecticut Reform School for boys is 
 located there, having now in charge two hundred 
 and fifty boys. All the signs of a growing and im- 
 portant young city belong to it, and esiDCcially its 
 great and rapidly increasing amount of private 
 dwelling houses and swelling population. Meriden 
 has also some very wild and picturesque mountain 
 scenery. 
 
 Wallingford is a good — a most beautiful country 
 town, below it, about six miles nearer New Haven. 
 It is in the valley, and on the banks of the Quinni- 
 piac, built chiefly on the east side of it, on the 
 eastern slope of the grounds. A view from the hills 
 on the west side of this stream, of the village, valley, 
 and township, all but entrances one with its beauty. 
 The village clothed in white and green ; its nume- 
 rous cottages ; its princely edifices ; its tall churches ; 
 its gentle slope — and then, on the low grounds be- 
 tween, the immense trains of cars rushing north- 
 wardly and southwardly by turns, with living thou- 
 sands on board for a summer's recreation, cr with 
 heavy goods of merchandize for traffic ; and the im- 
 mense ware and mechanical houses for manufacturing 
 the plated goods here put up for ma^-ket — and then 
 the winding stream, the valley, th3 distant hills 
 and mountains — there are hutfeio such scenes, so per- 
 fect and soul satisfying in America. The Congrega- 
 tionalists of Wallingford have just dedicated a new 
 and splendid church, whereof a long notice appeared 
 but a day or two since in one of our city papers. 
 
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 We see a frequent newspaper notice of a musical 
 soiree or concert, or rehearsal there, under the ex- 
 cellent direction of our Professor Wheeler. And we 
 infer that Wallingford is a musical town withal. 
 We should think the dwellers among the rich scen- 
 ery of such a village and township, would instinct- 
 ively break forth mto singing in unison with nature. 
 A few years since, Moses Beach Esq., formerly editor 
 of the New York Sun, returned to Wallingford, hia 
 •native town, and erected a large and very elegant 
 dwelling house on the elevated grounds of the vil- 
 lage. He has recently died, and the property is 
 now undergoing changes ; so that this splendid man- 
 sion becomes a great and inviting hotel called the 
 Beach House. It is now ready, and opened by Mr. 
 A. W. Smith, for the entertainment of visitors, 
 boarders, travellers, etc. The fertile domain of the 
 Wallingford Community is there also, on the west 
 side of the Quinnipiac, covering the eastern slope of 
 the hills, from the summit of Mount Tom to the 
 banks of the river. They have a large farm ; and 
 beside the staple products of it common to all farms, 
 they cultivate fruits, berries, and choice and beau- 
 tiful things that are not so common. Their jiroducts 
 are known in distant markets, and sell at large 
 prices. They are students, readers, thinkers, also. 
 Their young men are frequently sent to Yale Uni- 
 versity or elsewhere, and are known as good stu- 
 dents, among the first. They have their own print- 
 ing press, issue a weekly paj)er, print some books, 
 
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 and contract for printing matter outside when at 
 leisure to do it, as labels, circulars, posters. The 
 females as well as the men learn to set type, and the 
 plan seems to be to help one another — the great 
 rule of the order is, all things in common. They cul- 
 tivate extensively strawberries, raspberries, black- 
 berries, apples, pears, plums, quinces, and are often 
 thronged with visitors. Walling tord is about twelve 
 miles north of West Haven, and the next town below 
 is North Haven, which is about six or eight miles 
 from the city. You drive out there through State 
 street going over Neck Bridge, under which the 
 Regicides are said once to have been concealed when 
 their pursuers rushed over it on horses to llnd them. 
 East Rock. 
 East and West Rocks are the northern Wall of the 
 city. They are remarkable eminences through the 
 gorge of which many have thought the Connecticut 
 River once flowed into the Sound. As they show 
 a bold perpendicular front of hard Plutonic or Trap 
 rock, it is claimed that they were thrown from a 
 great depth below by some convulsJon of nature — 
 such was Professor Silliman's theory, and similar 
 views are those of Geologists generally. But we 
 look at them now as wild and beautiful heights, 
 from whence we may obtain some of the fmest views 
 of the city, and its vicinity, that can be enjoyed. 
 East Rock is about two miles from the depot, and 
 the drive to it is over Neck Bridge, by way of State 
 street. Carriages make the ascent, and when once 
 
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 on the summit, what a charming view one obtains 
 of the garden-city at his feet, of the distant Island 
 and Sound ; of the harbor, light house, the northern 
 mountains, and the course of thevallies and streams. 
 
 Hamden is a good town, a pleasant spot to live in, 
 the mountains are on its western side ; Mt. Carmel 
 abruptly rises out of the plain on the north ; other- 
 wise it shows a wide, extended, level, sunny plain ; 
 a picture of peace, a home of happiness and thrift. 
 Hamden rejoices in two or three hamlets, known re- 
 spectively as Hamden Mount Carmel; Hamden 
 Plains ; Centreville, Whitney ville. Ives, the sculp- 
 tor, famed for his genius is a native of Hamden. To 
 him we are indebted for the life-like marble bust in 
 Yale College Library, of Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor, 
 D. D., late Professor of Divinity in the College. 
 
 From the north-west side of New Haven, by way 
 of Whalley avenue, which leaves the city from Broad- 
 way, you ride out to the village of Westville, and see 
 what has been regarded as well by citizens as stran- 
 gers, by the learned and unlearned, as one of the 
 most interesting natural objects in the country. 
 We mean West Rock. An abrupt elevation of three 
 or four hundred feet from the base with a show of 
 pillars or colonades bearing along its face, and some- 
 what worn and battered by the iron tools of specu- 
 lation now a days, from what was once the appear- 
 ance in the early days of Professor Silliman, who 
 always took his senior classes to see it, and who re- 
 garded it with a sort oi veneration like that one has 
 
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 for the Pyramids. To him West and East Rocks 
 were terminating points in this direction of the 
 Green Mountains, and the origin of the rock itself, 
 from tlie depths beneath, whence as they are of the 
 Basaltic or Trap rock family, they were thrown up 
 by some convulsion of nature. 
 
 You can climb to the summit by a rugged path 
 on the eastern edge of the hill. When once on its 
 bare crest, a glorious i^rosjDect spreads out before 
 you. The beautiful village is at your feet, the city, 
 the bay, the Sound, Long Island, distant mountains ; 
 intervening vallies, winding streams crowd into the 
 view, and make it one forever impressive. 
 
 Walk on northerly for half a mile, and you come 
 to what is called the Judges' cave, before spoken of, 
 and continuing on, to Wintergreen Falls, a beautiful 
 cascade on the easterly side of the mountain. One 
 can take a hack and ride to Wintergreen Falls. As 
 you ajDproich the spot, bearoflf to the bft and climb 
 up a smart piece of a hill take notice at the top of it, 
 on the left some ruins of an old building, or it may 
 be noiD, there is not anything observable but a fallen 
 in and almost grass and briar grown cellar. An "old 
 forsaken " stone house, with a dreary dilapidated 
 look, stood here a few years since, desolate and for- 
 lorn enough, riven by the winds and storms. But 
 in former days, as we learn, this lovely ruin, was then 
 the pleasant and attractive mansion of the distin- 
 guished family of the IIubbards. The author of 
 "Dreams and Realities" tells us that General John 
 
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 Hubbard, General of the Connecticut State Troops, 
 resided licre, and made this his headquarters. This 
 famil}^, second to almost none in the State, for pride, 
 position, aud refinement, had its home here, and it 
 is well understood that Dr. Stiles here found the 
 lady he afterward married. There has been many a 
 gay time on that ground, where now you see nought 
 but desolation, and mockery of human greatness. 
 Think of elegant officers, on tine steeds, dismounting 
 here, to pay respect to their military chief ! Think 
 of a hospitable mansion in such a place, and mid- 
 night revelry ; a place so mournful now, so green 
 and crumbled, blacK with age, and rust and moth, 
 has been the home of music, poetry, and eloquence, 
 
 " The glories of our mortal state 
 
 Are shadows, not substantial things." 
 
 This is one of the many objects of interest in this 
 drive. Wintergreen Falls is another ; a beautiful ro- 
 mantic fill of water in the shade of the forest, and 
 quite distant from the hum of business, and the 
 noise of the world. It has always been a point of 
 great attraction, and has been photographed as a 
 carte de-visite, and stereotyped by Peck Brothers, 
 in Chapel street, so that ramblers there and strangers 
 can have it as a remembrancer on reaching home. 
 Above these falls, you come to the dam and water- 
 works of the Fair Haven Water Works ; projected 
 and pushed forward by Benamin No yes Esq., un- 
 der the aid and support of C. S. Maltby Esq. This 
 lake covers about seventy-five acres, and is formed 
 
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 by a rocK and earth dam, of nearly 3,500 feet in 
 length, resting on the eastern slope of West Rock. 
 From this dam, the city of New Haven and harbor 
 are to be seen lying 240 feet below the rocks on 
 which we stand. Tlie roadways to this lake were 
 all rebuilt by Mr. Maltby, and are being improved 
 every year. This large lake of water is held as one 
 of the main reservoirs of the company for sujjp lying 
 water to the city, and is near the summit of the 
 mountain. It is said to be of great purity, and to 
 flow from living springs in the Rock. 
 
 To the South of this, lies the Judges' Cave ; a 
 huge boulder rent in twain, on the summit of the 
 mountain. 
 
 It should be understood by those who visit the 
 *' Judges' Cave," so called, on West Rock, that it has 
 a most remarkable and truthful history. Dr . Stiles, 
 one of the renowned and worthy Presidents of Yale 
 College, wrote out a veritable history of it, in his 
 celebrarted work called " Stiles's Judges." The 
 work is now very rare, still there are copies of it to 
 be found. He tells us that two of the Judges of 
 King Charles, once men of valor in the army of 
 Cromwell, found shelter here. It is a lonely place on 
 the bleak summit of a distant mountain range, but 
 thousands have visited the place, and many have 
 chiseled out their names or initials on the old wea- 
 ther b^.iten boulder. 
 
 In the village of Westville a little out on the south, 
 is the well known residence of the genial author ot 
 
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 " Dr. Johns," '' My Farm at Edgewoocl," " The Rev- 
 eries of a Bachelor," etc., Donald G. Mitchell Esq. 
 hetter known as Ike Marvel . Mr. Mitchell lives in 
 handsome style on a farm of one hundred acres, 
 growing some crops, raising some good stock, and 
 ever turning out new matter for the press. He is 
 we do not hesitate to say, one of the first American 
 writers living, and we hope he will be spared for 
 years to come, an example of industry, unsophistica- 
 ted manners, good sense, and siDlendid literary ge- 
 nius, of whom his countryman may well be proud. 
 His house is slightly elevated above the plain of 
 Westville, which spreads out in full view from his 
 doorway. Behind it rise the taller hills, and on 
 either side are forest glades. He has smoothed 
 down the rough places on his farm, and made it a 
 beautiful homestead. The drive to it is a very pleas- 
 ant and easy one. You can ride along the hillside 
 past his dw^elling, and go dow^n to the Derby road. 
 Then you can turn to the right, go up the hill to 
 Maltby Park and visit a branch of the Fair Haven 
 "Water Works located there. In this Park three 
 resevoirs are already constructed, and five more are 
 to be added to each of them, being higher than the 
 ot'iers, with jets or fountains from the centre, The 
 drivew^ays in this park are now about two and a half 
 miles, and w^hen they are all completed, the Park will 
 cover between eight and nine hundred acres of land. 
 You can return into the city from this Park di- 
 rect by the Derby Turnpike, or you can drive further 
 
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 down by a very shady, quiet route to AUIngtown, 
 and go into town by the Milford Turnpike. 
 
 The Parks in New Haven are the Public common ; 
 Wooster Place ; Hamilton Park on Whalley Avenue, 
 where are the Agricultural grounds, the race course, 
 the skating enclosures, about one mile and a half 
 from the State House ; the small park on Broadway ; 
 York square, opening out of Broadway ; Highland 
 Park, at the foot of East Rock. Maltby Park, as 
 mentioned above, etc. 
 
 Woodbridge, Bethany, and Orange are farming 
 towns on the north and west side of the city, and of 
 Westville. They are very quiet, rural townships, and 
 although somewhat rugged and hilly, as to cultiva- 
 tion and comfortable farming, they yield fine crops 
 of grain, and afibrd fine grazing grounds for cattle. 
 The people are remarkably hospitable, and they 
 preserve the simplicity of the olden times in regard 
 to truthfulness of character and the fulfillment of 
 obligations. They have tasteful churches, and able 
 ministers. The children, many of them, receive a 
 good education; recreations are thrown in with 
 labor, and life in these country towns has its ex- 
 citements as well as in the crowded city. 
 
 The forests and high-sheltered rocks and hills of 
 Woodbridge afforded a refuge tor the exiled Judges 
 of King Charles. The people there will show you 
 what is called " Hatchet Harbok," where was 
 found a hatchet they had left there, and Fort Rock 
 in the woods, where fi-om the tall pines they could 
 
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 Sfc the Harbor, and notice the coming in of vessels 
 from the sea; and on the brow of the hill, on the 
 east side of the church, is the " old Oak," measuring 
 in circumference about twenty -six feet, with gigantic 
 arms giving from north to south a meridian diameter 
 of an hundred feet of shade, and fronting this spot, 
 you look off into the city, the harbor, and the Sound. 
 Near by is the old burying-ground, where for an 
 hundred years and more the living have interred the 
 dead. Here lies the remains of the Rev. Josiah 
 SiiEKMAN, the father of Hon. Roger M. Sherman, 
 one of Connecticut's great men. Here is a hand- 
 some monument to the memory of Captain David 
 Lewis, a native of the town, long the successful 
 commander of the Havre and New York steamers, 
 "Atlantic," "Arago," etc. 
 
 From the Post Office, in Church street, you can 
 drive out to "West Haven, by Congress Avenue, or 
 Columbia street, or to Orange and Milford, often 
 caUed " Old i\Iilford." All the towns now named 
 are places of more or less importance, and many 
 matters of historical interest are connected with 
 them. Their early history dates back almost as far 
 as that of New Haven itself. 
 
 In ]Milford Burying Ground there is a handsome 
 monument, an obelisk in form, standing near the 
 New York and New Haven Railroad, raised to per- 
 petuate the memory of the old Revolutionary heroes 
 who were imprisoned in the British prison-ship, and 
 dying, were here interred in one grave. The corner- 
 
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 stone was laid with impressive ceremonies a few 
 years ago, Tliomas H. Seymour, then Governor, being 
 present, and making a commemorative address. 
 Milford is an ancient town, through the centre of it 
 courses a beautiful creek of water fresh from the 
 hills and vales of towns at the north. Originally it 
 was almost wholly a farming community ; now it 
 has its manufactures, its transient visitors, its board- 
 ing places, its rich residents from abroad, and all 
 the excitements of a busy, thriving town. 
 
 DERBY, BIRMINGHAM, ANSONIA. 
 
 These three important villages he in a sort of 
 triangle, near together, in the valley of the Nau- 
 gatuc river, and at its mouth where it joins the 
 Housatonic. Derby was the first settled town, and 
 the others, by its gravitation and enterprise, grew 
 out of it. From one who approaches these villages 
 on the east — say from New Haven — they lie so com- 
 pletely under the brow of the steep and sloping 
 hills and mountains of Woodbridge, and as to Bir- 
 mingham, which is across the low grounds of the 
 Kaugatuc, and is built on the sharp wedge-like 
 points of land, partly on the banks of the Housa- 
 tonic, and crowds down its southern and eastern 
 slope into the very gorge of the two rivers, its beau- 
 tiful cottages, tasteful mansions, and tall steeples 
 glittering like diamonds in the sunlight — " as to 
 Birmingham, " we say, so hidden by the trees, that 
 he who comes, rounds a corner in the woods, so to 
 sj)eak, and checks his horse to a walk on the brow 
 
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 of a hill into Derby village — Derby " Narrmos " — as 
 it is called, before seeing it. Then, in an instant, 
 like a rainbow suddenly showing his colors in the 
 heavens, or like a flash of the lightning its If, this 
 beautiiul valley of villages bursts on his view, and 
 he feels, and often expresses it in an outspoken 
 ejaculation, and emotion of [the highest wonder and 
 admiration. There are few, if any, scenes like it in 
 all our recollection of places. TVe know of one or 
 two resembling, but not equalling it. One is that 
 of Brattleboro', Vermont, as seen from the south, 
 from the burying-ground hill, a beautiful view; but 
 Derby Narrows is built snugly up to the steep hill's 
 side, with a very scant level margin, and so you can 
 only see it as you get into the right spot, and that 
 is the brow of the steep and long hill that takes you 
 down into the village, and near the very romantic 
 steep precipice hanging over the Housatonic, called 
 of course, the Lover's Leap, about which a true 
 lover's story hangs ; and just below, and near the 
 water, is the old residence of Gen. Hull of the war 
 of 1812. One cannot here see Ansonia, at all, but a 
 part of the "Narrows" comes to view, and the whole 
 shining face of Birmingham. 
 
 The Naugatuc Valley Railroad comes doTVTi 
 through Derby and has a depot there. There is also 
 a lumber-yard and ship-yard here ; and beautiful 
 churches close under the hills. Dr. Griffin, of cele- 
 brated oratory, in early life, preached here. Anso- 
 nia, named in honor of Anson Phelps, Esq., is 
 
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 about one mile above the " Narrows," and has more 
 space to build on. It has considerable manufactures. 
 a very extensive clock manufactory, press mills, 
 chair mills, foundry, woolen mills, and other worJts 
 of great interest. Birmingham is on the other side 
 of the Naugatuck, and is the largest of these villa- 
 ges. Anson Phelps, Esq., and his partners in busi- 
 ness, established here their copper and brass rolling 
 works, and introduced a great animation into the 
 young and growing life of Birmingham. It is a 
 very interesting community, and supports by its 
 manufictories those of the Shelton's tacks, nails, etc. 
 Mr. Hawkins'foundry, and Alien's extensive woolen 
 works, a very large class of workmen. The citizens 
 are a very acute, thinking, intelligent people, with 
 handsome churches, graded schools, a weekly news- 
 paper, by Bev. W. Thompson Bacon, one of Con- 
 necticut's poets, as its proprietor and editor; and 
 show a great amount of enthusiasm in whatever 
 they undertake. 
 
THE TROUT. 
 
 In the "wild places around New Haven, and in the 
 Btreams that flow over beds of pebbles, through 
 the rural townships, this beautiful fish is still to be 
 found, We could guide you to several trout streams 
 in the vidiiity of town, if at liberty, where j'ou 
 would be almost sure to hook your fish. Go out to 
 Westville. Strike the stream there above the paper 
 mill, and follow it into the wilds of Bethany. Fol- 
 low its arms and branches into Woodbridge, and go 
 on to Prospect. On the west side of Bethany, 
 coursing down through Woodbridge, are some trout 
 streams. Leaving Westville by the old Derby road, 
 and going directly west to Ansonia and Derby, 
 through the farming town of Woodbridge, you will 
 cross three or four creeks of water, in all of which 
 there are a few trout. There is a good stream flow- 
 ing through the village of Milford, adding very 
 much to the picturesque beauty of the place, in 
 whose waters far up among the hills, some good fish- 
 ing may be found in the early spring. A drive into 
 Oxford, and Woodbury, and through Naugatuck on 
 
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 the west of the city, will reveal to you some good 
 creeks ; trout are caught in them to some extent. 
 So in TVolcott, Prospect and Cheshire on the North, 
 and in Litchfield and its towns round about, some- 
 times the trout are found in large numbers. During 
 the last Spring vacation of two weeks, two students 
 of Yale, residing there, caught over three thousand 
 trout, on the east of New Haven, at Branford, North 
 Branford. In North Branford there were formerly 
 good trout streams ; and even now, sometimes the 
 fisherman find them there. And in Guilford, North 
 Guilford, and towns further off, there are a few fish 
 found every season. But a great complaint is raised 
 that the trout are fast decreasing. Large anticipa- 
 tions however, exist in many minds, that the new 
 method of artificial trout culture, will restore us 
 this delicious fish in all our waters. 
 
 PICKEREL. 
 
 This favorite fish is found in some waters, lakes, 
 and ponds, around New Haven, quite abundantly 
 There is a beautiful lake of fresh water on the East 
 of Fair H-iven, about four miles from the city, about 
 three miles long and fifty rods wide. Surrounded 
 by forests and gentle hillocks, the southern end, cut 
 by the Shore Line Railroad. This beautiful sheet of 
 water furnishes the best of ice in any desirable 
 quantity, to the Salstonstal Lake Ice Company, who 
 have their large ice houses on its margin. In these 
 clear waters the pickerel are often taken, and occa- 
 sionally some very fine specimens. So in the Lake 
 
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 at Whitney ville, now much increased in size by 
 damimng for the City Water ComiDany, pickerel are 
 taken. Occasionally some old fisherman brings into 
 the city precious strings of pickerel and troiit they 
 have found in waters we are not told of. 
 
 The Indians and early settlers of the county here- 
 abouts are known to have lived to a considerable 
 degree on fish, and sea-food in general, clams, oysters, 
 lobsters, etc. To this day the country people, ten 
 and twelve miles back, come down to the Harbor 
 and shore here for fish and clams. The streams and 
 lakes and waters of the Sound have for hundreds 
 of years supplied the fishermen with food ; and so 
 to a good degree it is even to-day. 
 
 The Quinnij)iac is a good fish stream. Says a 
 writer in a late paper : " In addition to its soft and 
 transparent waters, it has other attractions. It is a 
 * game stream.' The he:Kl waters abound in trout. 
 Nearly every stream that feeds it is a trout-brook. 
 From Hanover till it reaches tide water, pickerel 
 predominates ; below that blue-fish and sea-bass." 
 We lately saw a notice in one of our daily news- 
 papers that a party of three persons prepared for 
 fishing went out on the Sounds, and in six hours 
 returned with nearly eighty pounds of bass and 
 black fish. 
 
 On the summit of East Rock, there is a house for 
 the convenience and entctainment of visitors ; amuse- 
 ments and games can be had there. On West Rock 
 
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 notliing of the kind is to be found. That old head- 
 land is to day, as a hundred years ago, simply an 
 outlook of nature. No human habitation, no bowl- 
 ing alley, no billiard tables, not even a flag-staff is 
 there ; you are alone with the Ancient of Days. 
 From East Rock on the west side, you look down on 
 the sweet village of Whitneyville. A road winda 
 around the base of the mountain, by which you can 
 return into the city through this village, jjut hack- 
 riding over the debris of this rock is not very agree- 
 able — better, if young and strong, be on your feet. 
 
 The charming village of Fair Haven is one or 
 two miles east of the Rock, and from there you can 
 in a few minutes ride into the city over what is call- 
 ed Barnes Bridge^ through Grand street, going past 
 the large church of St. Patrick, and the elegant 
 sand stone edifice on Jeft'erson street near Grand, 
 called the Eaton Public School. Or, you can go 
 down to Grape Vine Point, below the village, and 
 pass over the new Chapel Street bridge, and go up 
 into the city, by the cars on Chapel street ; ( and so 
 from Tomlinson's bridge, lower down on the East 
 Haven side of Fair Haven) ; passing the splendid 
 Carriage, and Furnace, and Iron works etc., in that 
 part of the city. St. Paul's Church, the Governor's 
 House, Wooster Square, etc., to the depot. 
 
 The New Bridge over the Quinnipiac to what is 
 called Grape Vine Point, Fair Haven, being the ex- 
 tension of Chapel street in that direction, is a very 
 substantial affair. For a drawbridge, and a public. 
 
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 hard, every day service, itis also a very handsouie 
 and neat one, and will be a great accomodation. 
 Already, it is proposed to extend the Chapel street 
 horse raih'oad over it into the village of Fair Haven. 
 This bridge is an improvement in the convenience 
 of travel and freight, and of all kinds of intercourse 
 ■with Fair Haven, and that section of the vicinity, 
 it is almost impossible to overvalue. Very few of 
 the citizens of New Haven, hving in their quiet and 
 pleasant homes on the streets in the west and north 
 portions of the city, have any idea of the vast amount 
 of business done, and the heavy capital employed, 
 and the number of active workmen engaged in the 
 carriage and iron works, and other manufactures in 
 in the extreme east part of the city. The freight 
 carried by the New York steamboats is enormous. 
 Then notice the coal and iron unloading incessantly 
 amid a horrid din of croaking wheels and ma- 
 chinery ; the loud whistle and scream of the Loco- 
 motive ; the heavy roll backward and forward of the 
 loading and unloading cars, the departure of the 
 long dark train for the country, with its ponderous 
 freight, coal for the country use in a hundred manu- 
 factories, and coal for all town and city purposes, 
 tens of thousands of tons. What business, what 
 noise, what confusion and labor it makes, Then 
 passing minor places of enterprise and cost, enter 
 the extensive, valuable hardware casting works of 
 W. & E. T. Fitch. Here a hundred and twenty- 
 five hands find constant employment, and the mind 
 
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 is bewildered ia trying to estimate the rariety and 
 number of articles of all shapes and sizes brought 
 out. So it is in the silver plated works of Rogers, 
 Smith & Co., in the next block. There are em- 
 ployed here in this great establishment, where the 
 most complete ware is manufactured in tliis depart- 
 ment of silver work, from a hundred, to one hundred 
 and fifty hands ; and this house ships away all its 
 work. Go through the extensive Steam Saw Mill 
 company's works near by, and just at the end of the 
 new bridge. You will feel suprise at the power 
 which is here employed, and will express your 
 amazement as you notice the ease and perfection 
 with which the ugliest, and bulkiest mass of logs 
 and timbers, are reduced to merchantable and use- 
 ful boards and lumber, and constantly carted off to 
 other yards and grounds. Then there is the Brew- 
 ery of Mr. J. Phelps, on the corner of Chajjel and 
 East street ; the carriage works of Kean & Lewis, 
 and also of Dunham, Booth, & Wooster. The cast- 
 ings of M. & T. Sault & Co.,; in their manufacture 
 of Marine and Stationery Engines, Boilers, Tanks, 
 etc. ; very massive machinery, for planing, and 
 smoothing and shaping iron wares. Powerful are 
 the works here carried on. A hundred men could 
 not move the mechanical power here employed, so 
 as to make a single revolution ; but they apply 
 steam in such force and manner, as to move all their 
 heavy works, at once with the ease of one strikin:} 
 with a sledsre. 
 
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 The Carriage Business. 
 New Haven Carriage Makers, one after another, 
 have arisen, had their day, and retired. It has been 
 and still is to a considerable extent, a business of great 
 miportance in New Haven. It was said that during 
 the darkest days of the war, Sixty carriage houses 
 closed their works in the city, and some closed prob- 
 ably forever. But many have been resuscitated, 
 and have reopened largely their enterprises. At 
 this time, Lawrence, Bradley, and Pardee, main- 
 tain a first place in this department of elegant car- 
 riage manufacture in the city. It is worth any 
 man's time to spend an hour in the survey of their 
 diflferent styles of carriages, and various vehicles be- 
 fore purchasing elsewhere. Their works are near 
 the e.ist end of Chapel street. They have the largest 
 carriage establishment in America; probably no 
 coach House in the world, can show the variety of 
 carriages ; and the inventory of stock on hand ready 
 for shipper's orders to any part of Christendom, 
 this House is able to. It is an honor to the city, 
 and has well merited the confidence it enjoys. Their 
 business was established by Mr. James Brewster 
 at New Haven in 1810, and carried on by him above 
 twenty years. Li 1827, he opened a Repository in 
 New York, and Mr. John R. Lawrence became 
 his partner. Since that time, many changes have 
 taken place in the firm, Mr. Solomon Collis became 
 a partner in 1850. Mr. Brewster retired from the 
 firm in 1857. IVIr. CoIIis, from ill health, in 1850, 
 
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 Mr. Win. H. Bradley took his New Haven interest, 
 and subsequently, Mr. Wm. B. Pardee became a 
 partner, and tlie present firm is that of Lawrenee, 
 Bradley and Pardee. Thus for over fifty years, this 
 House has had a grand experience in the manufac- 
 ture of coaches, and of all sorts of vehicles, from a 
 child's carriage to a royal phaeton or chaaiot ! And 
 their work h3>3 been sent to nearly every part of the 
 civilized world 
 
 Messrs. Elisha and Charles Blackman, are engaged 
 in this manufactne on Park St. Formerly the firm 
 was Blackman and Randell. Messrs. Osborne and 
 Hoadley, and Wilcoxson and Miller, are also on 
 Park street, Weir on Elm street, Ingraham on 
 D wight street. 
 
 Tne old establishment at Newhallville ; Mr- New- 
 hall is still in active life. The Great Carriage block 
 of the Cooks on State street still remains, and is in 
 other hands doing some work ; Wells, Cruttenden, 
 and Co., Kean and Lewis ; Goodrich, Dunham, 
 Booth, andWooster, carry on the coach and carriage 
 business. Thousands of men find employment in 
 their works, although the carriage manufacture has 
 not up to the time when we write, recovered fully 
 the ground it lost during the war, when at least 
 six hundred men lost employment. 
 
 There is one extensive hardware and furnace 
 House on water street, from New Britain under the 
 firm of Sargent and Co., employing from two hun- 
 dred to thi-ee hundred workmen. This is one of the 
 
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 largest Manufacturing Houses in the city. And 
 nenr them are the Music Works of B. Shoninger 
 &Oo. 
 
 If you go north, you come to the New Haven Gas 
 Company's works; to the world renowned Clock 
 Works of New Haven, and the Lock Works of 
 Mallory & Pierpont. So there are extensive and 
 heavy iron works in Howard street. In Artizan 
 street the works of C. 0. Crosby, the inventor of the 
 Fish Hook and Needle machinery, by which a for- 
 tune has been acquired, and the world filled with 
 the barbed and sharp pointed instruments. 
 
 On Court street (seen best in the rear from Chapel 
 street) we have the imposing block of the late firuL 
 of Winchester & Davies, Shirt manufacturers. They 
 have put the business in the hands of younger men,, 
 under the firm of C. C. Davies & Co., and have re»- 
 tired from the further care of it. 
 
Yale College. 
 
 All strangers and travellers coming to New 
 Haven inquire for the Colleges. " Where is your 
 celebrated Yale College ? " It is a great pleasure 
 to be able to guide one in five minutes from the 
 Depot into the heart of the College Square, so cen- 
 trally situated is our famous Yale institution. 
 The College Square is next west of the City Green, 
 but a stone's throw from the old time worn and 
 dilapidated State House. On this Square are the 
 dormitories, the observatories and the recitation 
 rooms, and the College chapel to the number of 
 eight large brick buildings in one line north and 
 south, extending over two whole blocks, viz., from 
 Chapel street on the south, to Elm street on the 
 north. In the rear of these buildings is the fine 
 sandstone Hall of the Alumni, the old Trumbull 
 Gallery, formerly containing the historic paintings 
 of Colonel Trumbull, the splendid College Library, 
 with its numerous small turrets, and having at its 
 base, planted, the ivy of all the lately graduated 
 classes ; the old Common's Hall, now the home of 
 
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 the cabinet of. minerals and the lecture depart- 
 ment of Dana, Silliman, Loomis and other Profess- 
 ors ; the magnificent Street Art Gallery on the cor- 
 ner of Chapel and High street, recently erected by 
 the munificence of Mr. Augustus Street, the vener- 
 able father-in-law of Admiral Footo. Last (not 
 least) the well remembered little Labratory of the 
 elder Silliman, which no mortal hand has as yet 
 been bold enough to pull down or to deface. Be- 
 side these, there is a new and grand edifice where 
 the old Medical college once stood on Grove street, 
 at the head of College, with tower and bell, and 
 clock ; called after its noble friend and patron Mr. 
 Sheffield, the Sheffield Scientific School, a branch 
 of Yale. 
 
 On York street, there is the new Medical 
 College, just south of Chapel. On Church street, 
 near the Tontine Hotel, now as heretofore, is the 
 Yale Law Sciiool. On High street, is the Hopkins 
 Grammar School, a preparatory department to col- 
 lege ; and then here and there all over the vicini- 
 ties of all these various halls of the institution, are 
 private dormitories and boarding-places, to supply 
 what the college proper cannot. But the long brick 
 pile of eight solid buildings, with and without 
 spires, the grand and elegant and ancient edifices 
 in the rear, on the main college square, constitute 
 what is the main central location of Yale College, 
 and it is but about five minutes walk from the 
 depot. 
 
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 Much has been said about the removal of the 
 college buildings farther from the centre of the 
 city — some naming the summit of the Hillhouse 
 Avenue, others the elevated grounds a mile or two 
 east, for the new site ; and others, the large level 
 lots in the west or south parts of the city. But this 
 has been much objected to, and greab stress laid on 
 the convenience of the present location, and the 
 certainty of losing the prestige of name and an- 
 cient and venerable associations, by such an act of 
 vandalism and sacrilege. It is known that some of 
 the Faculty are in favor, and that others are more 
 or less opposed ; but in general we think it is un- 
 derstood, that it cannot be thought of. 
 
 Yale College is one of the great points of dis- 
 tinction in NcAv Haven, and we hope she will do 
 nothing to lose it. She is to New Haven, what the 
 Vatican is to Eome, or St. Pauls to London. New 
 Haven is known even in foreign lands by its col- 
 lege : " It is the seat of Yale College." By the 
 growth of the city, it has come about that the col- 
 lege is directly in the heart of the city. Accord- 
 ingly it is within three or five minutes walk of the 
 Post Office, the railroad station, the churches, the 
 banks, Music Hall, the stores, and the horse railroads 
 run under its eaves. All this is an inexpressible 
 convenience, attended, of course, with some crowd- 
 ing and annoyances ; for Yale, now numbering 519 
 academic students, 140 in the scientific department, 
 65 in the medicine, law and theology ; its profes- 
 
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 sional, with its faculty of fifty or sixty men ; must 
 require some room. And this is a progressive 
 requirement. The college, however, has ample 
 space yet to build on, and it is proposed to 
 erect, 
 
 The Peabody Museum, a large elegant struc- 
 ture, in honor of the munificent donor, Mr. George 
 Peabody, on the corner of the college lot, opposite 
 the old South College. Other buildings are con- 
 templated, and among them a new and handsome 
 chapel, to be called the Memorial CnAPEL, in 
 honor of its brave young men who went into the 
 war, and fell with thousands of their countrymen, in 
 defence of the nation. This may be on the site of 
 the present old chapel, or near by. Then several 
 Dormitories are wanted to accommodate students, 
 and a new line of buildings in the rear, tall, six 
 or seven stories high, will probably, sooner or later, 
 be erected ; and if the money could be had, we pre- 
 sume the Corporation would not hesitate to pur- 
 chase the remaining portion of the next block, 
 bounded west by York street, that they do not al- 
 ready own. This would give them much addition- 
 al room, and add greatly to their conveniences. At 
 any rate, here is an Institution of the highest im- 
 portance. Students resort to it from the most dis- 
 tant portions of the country, from California or 
 the Pacific. They come to it from the Sandwich 
 Islands, from India, and from Pekin in China, 
 and they bear with them when they leave, to the 
 
ends of tlie earth, tlie knowledge whicli they have 
 gained within these walls. 
 
 Great men have presided over this college : — 
 Timothy Dwight, Jeremiah Day, how highly- 
 honored! At the present fmo, Tiieoioee D. 
 WooLSEY is the President. "Were he dead, where 
 he would never see it, we would write his name 
 with the other two, making a grand trio. As it is, 
 he must wait, and let his Avorks praise him. But 
 there he goes, an active, gentlemanly, urbane man, 
 bent over, not with weary age, but sedentary 
 study for a lifetime. Walking with a quick step, 
 now across the college square, passing anon by the 
 Old State House, and so on diagonal lines over the 
 Green on his way to the Post Office. You will 
 know that step and bent form see them where you 
 may. Day, Silliman, Kixgsley, Iyes, Knight, 
 Olmstead, Taylor, Gibes, Goodrich, are gone, 
 Fitch still lingers. There are younger men now, 
 but some of them are growing old. Do they know 
 it ? So the scene is ever changing on college 
 grounds as elsewhere. 
 
 COLLEGE PRAYERS. 
 
 The students now-a-days have but one daily at- 
 tendance at college prayer : if you wish to see 
 them at th<3ir devotions, you must be on the college 
 grounds at half past seven, or at eight o'clock in 
 the morning and follow the tide as it sets towards 
 the chapel on the rapid tolling of the bell. Don't 
 go in below, but go into the galleries and take any 
 
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 seat you may like. The exercises of reading, sing- 
 ing by the choir, and prayer, occupy ten or fifteen 
 minutes. The students then all immediately resort 
 to their several division rooms and make their 
 morning recitations. 
 
 TRUMBULL GALLERY. 
 
 This famous edifice is directly in the rear of the 
 College chapel. It is no longer the depository of 
 Trumbull's paintings they having been removed to 
 the new Art gallery, and so the rooms where they 
 formerly were has been altered and made into a 
 study for the President, another for the Pastor of 
 the College Church, and an office for the Treasurer 
 of the College. 
 
 Divinity College is the plain building on the 
 north, resting on Elm street. The Alumni Hall 
 is immediately in the rear of it, and is a very 
 imposing edifice, made of the common home sand- 
 stone. 
 
 The first floor is arranged as one large, spacious 
 room, for the meetings of the Alumni, the College 
 dinners, examination of undergraduates, and new 
 candidates for admission to college, speeches, etc., 
 at commencement. 
 
 The lofts above are devoted to the accommoda- 
 tion and interests of the Literary Societies, viz, the 
 LiNONiAN Society, and the Brothers' in Unity So- 
 ciety. Here, every Wednesday evening the rooms 
 are opened for the members to assemble for debate 
 and composition; speaking occasionally in prize 
 
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 debates ; and also semi-occasionally enjoy wliat is 
 termed a Jubilee. 
 
 Soutli of this is tlie Library, a large and hand- 
 some building, planted around by the graduated 
 classes with ivy. It contains the college library, of 
 many thousand volumes, and also the libraries, in 
 separate departments, of the Linonian and Broth- 
 ers' Societies. 
 
 On the south of this is the '' Old Commons" 
 building, now used by the Professors for Lectures 
 on the first floor, and occupied also with the choice 
 cabinet of minerals, at first gathered and arranged 
 by the elder Silliman. 
 
 Then under its shadow, a little to the south, is 
 the old Laboratory ; and on the comer of the 
 square, near High and Chapel streets, rises in its 
 beautiful proportions the elegant modem structure 
 built out of the munificent donation of Augustus 
 Street, Esq., called 
 
 THE art gallery. 
 
 In this are all the rare paintings, casts, and curi- 
 osities of the arts, in possession of the college ; and 
 not unfrequently a new and rich collection of 
 paintings comes to hand, and brings out the beauty 
 and wealth of the city in evening brilliant festivi- 
 ties, to admire and study them. 
 
 The Gymnasium, on college grounds, with its 
 bowling alley, its baths, and everything complete 
 for the exercise, vigor and health of the students, 
 is one type of the social progress of things in Yale 
 
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 College life. The students generally appreciate 
 this feature of their college liberty, and spend 
 much of their leisure time in the physical and 
 manly culture for which it was intended. 
 
 The Reading Eoom and News Office, formed of 
 four rooms on the first floor of Old South Middle, 
 between the two halls, is another new feature in 
 the College life of Yale. Newspapers from differ- 
 ent parts of the country are received here daily, 
 regularly put on file at their respective desks, and 
 receive much attention. Pens, books, stationery, 
 etc., are also furnished the students here at a low 
 price. 
 
 The Scientific School we have located; also 
 the Medical and Law School. We must refer 
 you to the College Catalogue for further particu- 
 lars. This can be had of Mr. Kingsley, the Treas- 
 urer, in Trumbull Hall. 
 
 Ceremonies — Sports — Examinations — ^The 
 Wooden Spoon — Pipe of Peace — 
 
 Vacations. 
 
 Yale College has its gala days, its sports, and oc- 
 casions of interest, other than those of deep study. 
 We will briefly enumerate a few of them, as they 
 may occur to mind. The first things a young stu- 
 dent knows of Yale College is his examination to 
 enter it* This occurs regularly on the Monday and 
 Tuesday before commencement tn July, and on 
 Tuesday and Wednesday before the new term in 
 
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 September. It is conducted by a faculty, and is 
 held in the great hall of the Alumni building. 
 
 The Annual Commencement takes place on the 
 last Thursday in July, and the exercises, of a pub- 
 lic character, are held in the Centre Church. At 
 this time, the senior class graduates, and the dip- 
 lomas are presented them in the most public man- 
 ner, by the President, at the conclusion of the 
 day's festivities. The music is generally of a high 
 order. 
 
 After a long vacation, from late in July to the 
 middle of September, the hacks all at once begin 
 to crowd up Chapel street from the depot, and 
 from the steamboat landing, heavily packed with 
 baggage, and tilled with chatting students. They 
 have returned again to college studies. And in the 
 morning the college bell rings out its merry peal on 
 the city, and the students hasten to the chapel to 
 prayers. 
 
 The first term commences, as we have said, about 
 the middle of September. Then follows the first 
 vacation of two weeks at Christmas and the holi- 
 days. The second vacation takes place near the 
 middle of April, and is also of two weeks. The 
 tfiird vacation begins from the commencement, at 
 the close of the third term. 
 
 During the first term, the Freshmen experience 
 some of the trials of college life, and often have 
 their liberty of action somewhat abridged. But 
 rusheSf huUyismj smohiiig, hazing, etc., have in a great 
 
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 measure followed in the wake of the "burial of 
 Euclid, while the statement of fads made then by- 
 committees of the Literary Societies, has in a great 
 mieasure lost its point of interest ; and yet it is one 
 of the most agreeable little burlesques that has 
 ever been got off by the students, when in the 
 hands of men of decided wit and genius. 
 
 The Literary societies viz, the Linoniany and the 
 Brothers^ in Unity y meet weekly at eight o'clock 
 Wednesday evening in their respective Halls, for 
 debate and composition. The Thanksgiving Jubilee 
 is observed by the two societies in common, in one 
 hall or the other, and consists of dramatic repre- 
 sentations, a great supper, music, etc. 
 
 Skating is one of the amusements of winter, not 
 confined to the students, but in common with, 
 them, and large parties go out on excursion tickets 
 by the cars to Salstonstal Lake for this object. 
 Then to Whitney Lake, to Hamilton Park, to 
 Blake's, and Harper's ponds at Westville, to the 
 harbor as far as the Light-House, and thousands of 
 all ages, both sexes, and all shades, often find good 
 skating on the PublicGreen; for the authorities 
 take pains to flood the grounds, 'and then guard 
 them by the police, till the ice is strong enough to 
 bear. 
 
 They have their Fast Day^, and Feast Days. 
 
 After the Anmial Examination, the Freshmen 
 have their class dinner, at some place of resort not 
 far off from the city. Good dinners are not despi- 
 
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 sed, nor often neglected by the students, and Class 
 and Society Comittees, often square their balance 
 
 sheet by "bill of expense at Delmonico's," or " 's 
 
 Hotel," taking the dinner as a compensation for 
 services done and performed. As the Spring vaca- 
 tion approaches, The Junior ExJiibity^n comes off. 
 The services consist of speaking and music. The 
 President of the College presides. The exercises 
 are held in the College Street Church. In the even- 
 ing of the same day, the Promenade Concert by the 
 same class comes off at Music Hall. This is a gay 
 time, and there is a great pressure on the commit- 
 tee for tickets. 
 
 The Summer term is a short one, consisting of 
 twelve weeks. Base Ball is one of the sports of 
 this period, and is a popular amusement with the 
 students. 
 
 The Gijmnasium belonging to the College is called 
 the best in the country, and is quite popular among 
 the students. Frequent public exhibitions are held 
 there for the benefit (sometimes) of the Yale navy, 
 etc. Ladies attend as visitors. Coanected with 
 the establishment is a very good Bathing Depart- 
 ment, also highly appreciated. Boating and rowing 
 by the Yale Navy is a great pleasure, and requires 
 considerable preparation and training in order to 
 successful competition with other crews, at home 
 and abroad, as Harvard and "Worcester. Often 
 there are spirited contests in our own harbor, and 
 frequently five or six thousand people, including of 
 
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 course the youth and beauty of the city, assemble 
 on the shores and on the wharves to witness these 
 struggles for the mastery. The Boat House is near 
 Tomlinson's Bridge : a photograph of it has been 
 taken by Peck, and is for sale by Hoadley, and 
 others. 
 
 Velocipedes are now the rage at New Haven. The 
 Secret Societies are now very numerous and popular 
 at Yale College. There are four Senior Societies ; 
 three Junior; two Sophomore, and two or three 
 Freshmen. There are beside these several associa- 
 tions or cliques, who have their secret organizations, 
 good suppers, amusements, literary exercises, etc. 
 They are ail rather expensive institutions. There 
 are also in the Scientific Department one or two 
 Secret Associations, and the Berzolians are among 
 the best. 
 
 The Senior Class have their Presentation week 
 and day at the end of eight weeks' study of the 
 last (3d) tei-m. Public exercises are held in the 
 College chapel, the President presiding. The class 
 Orator gives an oration, the Poet a poem. The 
 Faculty on this occasion give a dinner to the class. 
 The afternoon exercises are in the open air under 
 the trees. The Class Histories are read by the 
 historians of each division, ladies and gentlemen 
 visitors surrounding. The Pipe of Peace is smoked, 
 teal's are shed, farewells uttered, etc. The Ivy is 
 then planted ; and, led by the music, the class pays 
 its respects to the President and Professors at their 
 
houses. Serenades follow througli the night. This 
 ends the four years' course at Yale, although the 
 seniors return in four weeks to the commencement 
 exercises, to their appointments as orators, and to 
 receive their degrees. 
 
 The students have their Libraries containing 
 many thousand volumes. They own their Boats 
 and Boat-houses. They own the sand-stone edifice 
 on High street, and another, the A. K. E., on York 
 street. They have varieties of diversions and 
 modes of killing time — excursions to Sachem's 
 Head, to Lane's Rock, to the Cave, down the Har- 
 bor, swimming, boating, fishing, skating, class ex- 
 citements, squabbles, phrensies, calls. There are 
 always some good musicians and singers in every 
 class. Of course, FaZd G^^^ee (7 Zw5s sometimes flourish. 
 The Beethoven Society of Yale gives its concerts. 
 
 Commencement Week occurs toward the last of 
 July. It brings together often hundreds, and even 
 thousands of graduates and strangers. The exer- 
 cises of Commencement-day are on Thursday. 
 They are preceded on Tuesday evening by a ser- 
 mon to the clergy, {concio ad clertim.) On Wednes- 
 day morning by an Alumni meeting at the Alumni 
 Hall, by an oration before the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society, at the North Church, and a poem, and by 
 the meeting of the Lenonians and Brothers at their 
 Halls in the afternoon. On Thursday the exercises 
 of Commencement are gone over at the Centre 
 church, tine music interspersed, the degrees con- 
 
fen*ed, and the Commencement dinner at the Hall 
 winds up the year. 
 
 The students expend annually m the course of 
 education considerable over a quarter of a million 
 of dollars. 
 
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 TmIIiz 'Schools, Charities. 
 
 The City of Elms affords very great advantages 
 for obtaining elementary instruction and a thorough 
 education for lousiness-life. We have spoken of the 
 College perliaps suthciently, where students are 
 tramed through a course of four years in the 
 Academic department, and in two or three years' 
 further study in professional departments, as law, 
 theology, medicine, natural science, philosophy; 
 scientific order, as relating to engineering, survey- 
 ing, mining, agriculture, ect. 
 
 Now it is in order to refer to the Public Schools. 
 These are large and well regulated departments of 
 study for the children and youth, from four years of 
 of age to sixteen. These schools are under the care 
 of proper teachers male and female, all having a 
 general suj)crintendent to insi^ect them, and give 
 directions and reports. There are six or eight of 
 these large schools now in operation, or the build- 
 ings are going up for the purpose. There is also 
 0]ic school of a higher order, called the High 
 School. Pupils go into it from the other depart- 
 ments or graded schools on examination, and may 
 
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 be prepared for college or for the business of life. 
 These schools are open free to the public, being 
 supported by a tax on the grand list at so much on 
 the dollar. It is not raised on the number of child- 
 ren, but on the whole amount of property, thus 
 enabling all the children to get an education, 
 whether rich or poor. 
 
 And besides these there are the Catholic schools, 
 some German schools, Jewish schools, colored schools, 
 and many private schools. "We will mention a few 
 of them that occur to our mind. Prof and Mrs. 
 Hubbard's Female School, on Grove street. Rev. 
 and Mrs. Folsom's ditto, in Sheffield's Block, Elm 
 street. Mrs. Black and Miss Wheeler's Female 
 School, in Temple street. Mrs. E. Daggett's Young 
 Ladies School, corner of West Chapel and Park 
 street. Miss Churchill's School for Young Ladies, 
 in Temple street. Miss Perry's School, 102 Crown 
 street. Prof. Heness' German and French School 
 for Boys and Girls, College street, opposite the 
 church. Rev. Mr. Shears' Suburban Home School 
 for Boys, Dixwell Avenue. Pui^ils board with the 
 rector. 
 
 It is supposed that almost everybody has heard of 
 " Russell's " School ; but we mention it, notwith- 
 standing. It is called " The Collegiate and Com- 
 mercial Institute," Mnj. Gen. Wm. H. Russell, pro- 
 prietor. It has a fine location on Wooster Place, 
 opposite the Park. It has a rare Military drill and 
 dress department, as well as Collegiate and Commer- 
 
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 cial. The number of pupils is about one hundred 
 and fifty. There are no troops who appear on jja- 
 rade or at drill more thoroughly at home than the 
 young men of this Institute. 
 
 There are other military schools near the city, 
 and that of Rev. Mr. Everest, at Centreville, (Ham- 
 den), about five miles north of town, is under high 
 discipline. 
 
 There is also a military school at Cheshire, about 
 sixteen miles north of the city. 
 
 In New Haven, under Music Hall, Crown street, 
 is the large and flourishing schoc)l, known as the 
 Business College of New Haven, Charles F. Wells, 
 Principal. 
 
 At Fair Haven there is a Seminary for boarding 
 and day pupils ; E. Cleveland, A. M., Principal. 
 
 At West Haven, on a gentle elevation a little re- 
 tired from the main street, is the Oak Hill Ladies 
 Seminary of Mrs. S. E. W. Atwater. A very hand- 
 some natural grove shuts in the premises, and adds 
 to the pleasure and attraction of the grounds. This 
 is one of the best female seminaries in the country. 
 It is in full sympathy with the Ladies' Seminary at 
 Mount Holyoke. 
 
 Mr. Northrop's Boys' School at West Haven, is 
 also well conducted and patronized. Spaoiish is 
 taught in the school, and boys from Cuba and else- 
 where attend it. 
 
 Rev. Guy B. Day, a personal friend of ours, at 
 Bridgeport, eighteen miles from the City Cf Elms, 
 
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 has a fine boardiiig and day school for boys and 
 girls. He is a graduate of Yale, and a thorough 
 educator. 
 
 There are several excellent music-teachers in Nctv 
 Haven, whose names and residences may be found 
 on inquiry at the music stores, and by consulting 
 the columns of Loomis' Musical Journal ; also the 
 Piano-tuners, and repau'crs of pianos and organs. 
 
 enevolent Institutions. 
 
 Of course tnese include the Orphan Assyi.ums. 
 The one on Elm street is under the care of the 
 Protestants, and has a voluntary set of managers, 
 who devote themselves assiduously to the good of 
 the institution. A lady matron presides over the 
 flock of children, having all the assistants necessary. 
 The number of the inmates varies from one hundred, 
 to one lumdrcd and fifty, and they form a most in- 
 teresting group. James Brewster Esq., always one 
 of New Haven's leading benevolent men, founded 
 this hospital, by the donation of money needed to 
 erect the building, the city giving the grounds. Mr. 
 Brewster's name will be handed down with the his- 
 tory of New Haven in the last century. His benev- 
 olence was as wide as human necessity, and his 
 compassion on the i)Oor a sentiment of his very 
 nature. 
 
 The St. Francis' Orphan Asylum is on Wliitney 
 Avenue, attended by the Sisters of Charity ; num- 
 ber of pupils se\enty. There is also the Convent of 
 
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 Mercy, near St. Mary's church, and there the Sisters 
 of Mercy reside ; and in the lower rooms of St. 
 Mary's they direct the studies of what is called 
 the St. Mary's Academy, the number of pupils 
 being one hundred and twenty; while the Parochial 
 School of St. Mary, also under their charge has four- 
 hundred pupils, and St. Patrick's seven hundred 
 pupils, and St. John's, under lay teachers, has two 
 hundred boys and two hundred girls. 
 
 Tlic Work and Aid Society for the Relief of 
 Suffering where known. The New Haven Benevo- 
 lent Association, which has its field the city over, 
 and accomplishes much good. The Ladies' Sewing 
 Societies for the Poor, — they all do a blessed 
 charity, and the thanksgivings of thousands praise 
 them. 
 
 We think that every church in the city has its 
 lady-associations for sewing garments for the poor, 
 or some organization equivalent thereto. 
 
 On George street, west of College, and on the north 
 side of the street, are the new buildings erected 
 this season by the private munificence of 
 
 Joseph Sheffield, Esq., 
 for a Home for Aged Women of Trinity Parish, and 
 for a Parish School. There are three buildings, 
 tw^o of them with turrets or steeples, and here the 
 aged and feeble ones are to have their comfortable 
 home while they live. A chapel and a rector are 
 assigned them on the ground, that they may still in 
 old age enjoy the benefits of the church. 
 
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 The rich and benevolent men of a city, like Mr. 
 Sheffield, Mr. Brewster, and others, are entitled to 
 the gratitude of their fellow men, and will never be 
 forgotten. 
 
 The New Haven Alms House is a large brick 
 edifice at the head of Martin street, about a mile 
 and a half from the centre of the city. 
 
 The State Hospital is a large and well arranged 
 edifice, occupying the whole of the square, bounded 
 on the north by Davenport Avenue, south by Con- 
 gTCss Avenue, on the east by Cedar street, west by 
 Hubbard street. 
 
 The County Jail (a prison), is a new, strong, well 
 ventilated, and handsome edifice, on Whalley Ave- 
 nue, about one mile from the depot. The grounds 
 are laid out with care and taste. Few in passing 
 would suppose it the stronghold of the city for 
 criminals. 
 
 MUSIC hall. 
 New Haven has its Music Hall as well as its 
 churches and college. A fine, large structure it is, 
 too, and is located on Crown street, just below Tem- 
 ple, and above Church. By inquiry at the Post- 
 office on Church street, (and all strangers learn the 
 way to a post-office), one can be directed without 
 difficulty to the Hall. It is hardly a minutes' walk 
 from the Post-office, round the next corner below at 
 the right. The Hall is extensively patronized by 
 the New Haven people. They are desperately fond 
 
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 of concerts, demonstration meetings, operas, min- 
 strels, and shows of various sorts, that come off at 
 Music Hall. Nearly all the great actors, singers, 
 and orators of the day have appeared on these 
 boards, and have been enthusiastically received. It 
 is one of the principal places of attraction in New 
 Haven. It -will seat twenty-five hundred persons, 
 and will hold over three thousand. It cost a good 
 deal of money, but is not a fancy hall made only for 
 display ; it is roomy and jjlain. Very great dissatis- 
 faction exists with it on account of affording poor 
 egress in case of fire or any panic. The stairs from 
 the galleries are very narrow, one on each side only, 
 and in case of alarm, hundreds would crowd the 
 gorge to them, only to render escape the more hope- 
 less. This feature of the edifice is loudly condemned ; 
 but the people hope, and the proprietor hopes there 
 will be no fire, no alarm, no panic. So we live on 
 and enjoy life while it lasts, for why 
 
 " Die a thousand deatha, 
 In fearing one 1" 
 
 The stranger can hardly ever pass a night at New 
 Haven when the evening is unoccuDied at the Hall 
 by some entertainment. 
 
Chtirclies. 
 
 New Haven has always been somewhat celebrated 
 for its churches. It is the home of Taylor's system 
 of Divinity, and has been the theatre of many a 
 discussion on the " whys" and "wherefores" of the 
 old Saybrook platform. Connected with the Col- 
 lege, there is a school of Divinity, and from time to 
 time some of the first Theological talent of the 
 country has presided over it. The animm of New 
 Haven, of old, was spiritual and religious. Thus 
 its first concern was a huilded church. Houses of 
 worship are therefore co-eval with its settlement. 
 And on the Public Green, on the line of Temple 
 street which runs north and south through the cen- 
 tre of it, are three well known churches ; called 
 Trinity, The Centre, and The North Church. 
 If any where in New Haven, you will find good 
 preachers, good choirs, and good audiences in these 
 places of worship. Trinity Church is on the south 
 side of the Green, close up to the iron railing where 
 Temple and Chapel streets cross each other. Hero 
 the venerable Dr. Crosswell ofliciated as rector over 
 
forty years, and left a profound impression of his 
 great worthiness of character on the city. At the 
 present time, the Rev. Dr. Harwood is rector of the 
 parish, and has been so for several years ; a clergy- 
 man of most extensive learning, of great activity, 
 and enthusiasm of chraracter, with true devotion 
 to the good of country, and of church. 
 
 The Centre Church, is situated half way up the 
 Green, and is where the Rev. Dr. Bacon, a leading 
 minister in the Congregational order, well known 
 throughout the whole body of the churches, has 
 preached as the settled pastor nearly fifty years ; 
 preceded by Dr. N. W. Taylor, and Rev. Dr. Moses 
 Stuart, afterward professor at Andover. Dr. B. has 
 just now resigned to fill a professorship in the Divin- 
 ity department of the College, and his successor is 
 the Rev. George L. Walker, to whom the heart of 
 the people seems to turn as one man. 
 
 The North Church, is on the north side of the 
 Green, close up to the iron railing, and in a line 
 with the other two^ fronting on Temple street, and 
 like them, embowered in lofty and graceful elms. 
 Here it was the beloved Dutton labored for 
 twenty-five years, and then very suddenly left the 
 earth. To know him was to love him, and his death 
 was a cause of mourning and lamentation in the 
 city. Rev. Mr. Mer^^in preceded him as pastor 
 for many years. At present, the Rev. E. L. Clark, 
 a popular and interesting preacher, is pastor of tlic 
 North Church. 
 
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 The Third Congregational Church, as it is called, 
 is on Church street a little above Chapel, and fronts 
 the Public Green. The Rev. Dr. Gregory, its late 
 pastor, succeeded the greatly beloved and revered 
 Dr. Cleaveland, whose death occurred about the 
 same time as that of his fellow laborer. Rev. Dr. 
 Dutton of the North Church ; both of them lovely 
 men, endeared to thousands. Dr. Gregory has re- 
 signed on account of ill health. The College Street 
 Congregational Church, late under the pastoral care 
 of Rev. Dr. Strong, is on College street near Chapel, 
 and has just installed Rev. James W. Hubbell as 
 pastor. The Chapel Street Congregational Church, 
 is on Chapel street near the Depot, and the excellent 
 pastor Rev. Wm. T. Eustis, who has labored with 
 them for twenty-one years, has recently accepted a 
 call, and removed to Sj^ringfield, Mass. The Chapel 
 street church have made arrangements to settle Rev. 
 Mr. Todd as their pastor. The Howe street Congre- 
 gational Church is to be located, it is said, on the 
 corner of Chapel and Dwight street, and now have 
 the services of the Rev. Mr. Newcomb. The South 
 Reformed Church late under the care of Dr. Carroll, 
 now at Brooklyn, N. Y., is a fine, plain, massive struc- 
 ture on the corner of Columbus and Liberty. The 
 new West Congregational church. Rev. Mr. White 
 pastor, is on Howard avenue, a very neat and sub- 
 stantial edifice. St. Paul's church, one of the strong 
 churches of the city. Rev. Mr. Drown the late pas- 
 tor, preceded by the Rev. Bishop Littlejohn of the 
 
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 Eastern Diocese of Long Island, is at the corner of 
 Chapel and Olive street. St. Thomas' Rev. Dr. 
 Beardsley, rector, is on Elm street near Orange. 
 Christ Church, Rev. James Brewster rector, is in 
 Broadway at the head of Park street. The Ei3isco- 
 palians, as have the other religious orders in differ- 
 ent j)ortions of the city, their mission chapels and 
 virgin churches. There are several of these, built 
 Up for the most part a little toward the outskirts of 
 the ci:y. The Universalist church is now on Chapel 
 street ; formerly the edilice was occupied by the 
 first Baptists, who have now their church opposite 
 the north east corner of Wooster Square ; Rev. Dr. 
 Phelps is the pastor. The First Methodist Church 
 is a large brick edifice, mounting a bell of magni- 
 ficent projDortions, as well in size as in tone, in its 
 tall spire, situated at the corner of Elm and Col- 
 lege street. It has a large and thronging congrega- 
 tion. The Second Methodist Church is on St. John 
 street, near Olive. The Third Methodist Church, 
 is on George street, between Church and State. 
 
 The Roman Catholic churches are St. Mary's, 
 Father O'Brien, Church street; St. Patrick's, Fa- 
 ther Hart, Grand street ; St. John's, Rev. Dr. Car- 
 mody, York street and Davenport avenue. The 
 Jewish Synagogue, formerly the church of Dr. 
 Cleaveland and congregation, is in Court street 
 near State. The Germans have their churches, and 
 places of religious ceremonies. They have a substan- 
 tial chui'ch edifice on George street, below Chapel. 
 
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 The colored people have a well managed church 
 in Park street after the Episcopal form, Rev. Dr. 
 Garfield officiating as preacher. Another in Tem- 
 ple street after the Congregational order, and others 
 in various places, as one on Spring street near 
 Whalley avenne. 
 
 Thus it will be seen that New Haven is well sup- 
 plied with churches, and with pastors and teachers 
 of fair reputation as preachers. They have good 
 organs, organists, and singers. The houses are neat 
 and inviting. Some of them have elaborate and 
 costly adornments. They all have well cushioned 
 seats, well supplied books, and it is the fault of the 
 attendant if he receive no good from the service. 
 
 As for the style of church architecture in the city, 
 we must say we desire to see a change in at least 
 one particular. We wish that, hereafter, every 
 church edifice in New Haven might be constructed 
 with the pulpit, organ, and orchestra, at the same 
 end of the house, and in fi'ont of the audience. 
 Then, and not till then, will the false position of the 
 people to the music be obliterated, and it will be a 
 pleasure to hear good music in our churches. It is 
 natural to look the music in the face. It is unnatural 
 and absurd to put it any where else than directly 
 before you. Who would give five dollars to hear 
 Jenny Lind sing if he could not see her ? And 
 would it not be awkward to twist his neck round to 
 see her ? 
 
The Stores. 
 
 No city can be said to be perfect unless well sup- 
 plied with stores. These must be of many different 
 kinds, the leading and attractive being the retail 
 dry goods stores. With them New Haven is well 
 supplied ; and it is remarkable that the heaviest 
 part of the retail dry goods business in New Haven 
 is done on one street — viz., Chapel street. You will 
 find on Chapel street, above the def)ot and between 
 it and Temple street, all the first-class dry goods 
 stores of the city. Of course this makes Chapel 
 street, within those limits, a most active and busy 
 thoroughfare. It is the Broadway and Cornhill of 
 New Haven. These stores are not all of them very 
 stylish although resiDectable in outward appearance, 
 but are well packed with goods. Some of the 
 Chapel street merchants carry large stocks of goods, 
 and their trade is heavy. One ot the best proofs of 
 their success in the business is, that notwithstanding 
 very heavy rents and other expenses, seldom one of 
 them goes down. Perhaps it is true that New 
 Haven is not overstocked with dealers in this trade, 
 thus insuring success to the parties who venture. 
 
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 But these places of business are presided over by 
 gentlemen, and men of genius in tlieir pursuits, or 
 the contrary results might frequently be appre- 
 hended. The interior of most of these shops pre- 
 sents a solid bank of goods, and large, well arranged 
 and attractive rooms. Take for example that of T. 
 P. Merwin & Co ; that of J. H. Coley, Munson & 
 Carpenter, Allen & Co, Frazer & Newcomb, Lake, 
 Browning & Co, Pallman, Bromley, Plumb, Wilcox 
 & Hall, Milander, Camp & St. John, Malley, Smith, 
 Blair & Collins etc. Mr. Plumb has a profitable 
 trade, and a store often thronged with ladies where 
 they fmd almost every imaginable article they desire 
 for work, admiration and ware. Messrs. Lake 
 Browning & Co, gentlemen traders, show a store 
 packed with goods, and their sales we know must 
 be heavy from the amount of customers we see 
 constantly going in and coming out. So of Frazer 
 & Newcomb where a large assortment of staple and 
 fancy goods always blocks up the store. We bid 
 success to them one and all. 
 
 And we refer especially now to Mr. Malley's 
 store, which is greatly celebrated m New Haven. 
 Everybody in New Haven knows it, and it is the 
 trading-point of large numbers of citizens. It is a 
 very extensive and attractive store. Mr. Malley has 
 been one of the most successful, as he is one of the 
 most enterprising merchants of New Haven. His 
 store is a thorough bazaar from morning till evening. 
 Illuminated in the evening and actmg as a loadstone 
 
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 by day, by its si^lendid windows, with well and 
 beautifully marked prices of the goods, it attracts, 
 we may say, thousands to its counters. Mr. Malley 
 began in a very small way ; but a success lias fol- 
 lowed his exertions and enterprises every way 
 remarkable, and may be in a great measure attribu- 
 ted to his extensive manner of advertising, although 
 we think it due him to say that advertising would 
 have done little for him if the root of business had 
 not heen in himself. Many of our dry goods mer- 
 chants are men of consummate ability and shrewd- 
 ness. They exhibit a perseverance in difficulties 
 that belongs to men of a high order of business 
 talent, and a taste and judgment in the selection of 
 goods which place them in the first rank here with 
 us, and so would do anywhere. 
 
 Within these same limits we find several of our 
 best hardware stores. The store of John E. Bas- 
 SETT & Co., is one of them. How complete the 
 departments of silver-jDlated ware, cutlery, builders' 
 and mechanic's tools, especially saws, chisels, axes, 
 augers, etc. How many things in a hardware-store 
 to interest and please ! Mr. Bassett is devoted to 
 his business, being early and late on the ground, 
 and in the department of manufacturers, as well as 
 in .the store and sale of goods, his influence is con- 
 tinually felt. A few doors above we find the hard- 
 ware store of Smith & Kimberly, enterprising and 
 successful young men. The old iron and hardware 
 house of Wooster & Ensign is just below. Hotch- 
 
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 kiss & Mersick, and the Atwaters' iron stores, are 
 around the corner on State street. So the glass and 
 hardware stores of Hotchkiss, and Glenny & Peter- 
 son. The fruit stores of Beers, of Douglass & Sons, 
 the stove stores 'of Treadway & Warner, of Arnold 
 & Cannon, all these on State street. 
 
 But here, also, on Chapel street, are the fur and 
 hat stores, the tea stores, the drug stores, the shoe 
 stores, the picture stores, the carpet stores, the book 
 and newspaper stores ; and here are the shops and 
 offices, lawyers, doctors, photographers, brokers ; here 
 they are — here they crowd and jostle one against 
 the other. Chapel street is our great thoroughfare. 
 
 Benjamin's Jewelry Store, on the corner of 
 State and Chapel street, in the very shadow of the 
 depot, is a place of great attraction to those in 
 search of his delicate goods. Diamond and gold 
 rings glitter and shine in his cases ; bracelets, chains, 
 studs, and earrings show themselves in great pro- 
 fusion and variety. Silver and heavy plated-ware 
 press down the shelves. Watches of foreign manu- 
 facture and home production meet the eye. His 
 store is wtII worth a visit. The firm is now Benja- 
 min & Ford. 
 
 The same may be said of Brown's, further up 
 Chapel fctrcet, and Streeter's, and Kirby's, and Brom- 
 ley's ; and if you have a watch tor repairs, drop in 
 on O'Neill at 430 Chapel street, near tlie New 
 Haven House, -who has been fifty years at work oil. 
 watches ! 
 
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 Among tne Merchant Tailoiis, Mr. A. Thill, on 
 Chapel street, near the colleges, who goes occasion- 
 ally to London and Paris, and is acknowledged one 
 of the best '* fits " in the city. Read his advertise- 
 ment in this work. He keeps an extensive stock of 
 goods staple and fancy. Successful in business, he 
 is also foremost in charity, not unmindful of the 
 poor, Mr. Thill spares no expense to procure the 
 very highest styles of goods and fashion, and he is 
 posted as to prevailing colors as well as grace of 
 style, being in constant correspondence with busi- 
 ness houses abroad. 
 
 Mason & Son, on the corner above him, are accom- 
 plished and agreeable Merchant Tailors, and enjoy 
 a large trade. So it is with Hurle, on the opposite 
 corner. Then we have Bryan, on Church street, 
 Chatterton, on Chapel street — all excellent men in 
 their line of operations — and among them is Mr. 
 Franklin Bliss, on Chapel street, one of our most 
 extensive dealers and operators in gentlemens' 
 cloth and warbrobes. 
 
 Coming out of the depot, strangers first see the 
 Chapel street Railroad Bridge, and, crossmg that, 
 they are on the principal business street. The first 
 place of interest is, as shown in the x^icture of the 
 depot, Brewster's Building. This is a very substan- 
 tial block. There is the well-known clothing-house 
 of F. O. Manchester & Co., surviving partners of T. 
 L. Klngsley & Sons, who for many years have done 
 a clothing trade in New Haven. The old firm had 
 
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 a branch also in State street, called the " Great 
 Wardrobe," and the firm now is Albert Ney & Co. 
 The home of these houses is Utica, N. Y., and they 
 supply the market heavily even to Michigan. They 
 supply all sorts of furnishing goods. 
 
 So it is with Franklin, on Orange street. He 
 takes your exact proi)ortions, and rounds you off 
 with a fit that persons might be justified in envying, 
 were not envy forbidden in the Decalogue. 
 
 The ready-made clothing stores of F. O. Manches- 
 ter & Co., are on Chapel street, near the Depot, and 
 on State street of Albert Ney & Co., above Chapel. 
 There are branches of the trade at Utica, N. Y., suc- 
 cessors to Kingsley & Co., and it is supposed to do 
 an immense trade. 
 
 In like manner the large establishment of E. Fitch 
 & Co., corner of Chapel and State streets, offers 
 great inducements to those in search of ready-many 
 garments. This is a heavy house. A large trade 
 has grown up there, and recently the edifice has 
 been raised with a Mansard roof, to six stories, and 
 makes a splendid appearance. 
 
 Atwaters parlors, on Chapel near Church street, 
 are patronized by the elite of the city. Gray, 
 Cooper & Co., Ullman, Heller, Besser, and many 
 others have stores well filled with garments, or cloths 
 from which to manufacture them whenever the word 
 is said. 
 
 We always took a fancy to a glass and crockery 
 store. The wares are so smooth, so tasteful, so use- 
 
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 ful and necessary ; tbey make such a splendid vari- 
 ety, from the most deUcate-tinted, and porcelain, 
 and china, to the hardy iron, and stone, and clay ; 
 and then the department of vases, and plated and 
 silver-ware, and mirrors, and often cutlery. And it 
 is so splendid when the goods come in from Liver- 
 pool, or from New York in the basement or else- 
 where, to tear open the crates and hogsheads, drag 
 off the packing, bring out the well-strawed jDlates, 
 and tumblers and muffins, unpack the big jugs, and 
 bring oat the little cup-plates and small goods — or 
 perchance, to straw and pack the goods for a custo- 
 mer, and send them off well and safe and paid for, a 
 dozen miles into the country. H. N. WniTTiiESEY 
 & Co., of Chapel street, has such a store. It is a 
 temptation to go in there you want to buy this and 
 to buy that. Messrs. Whittlesey's store is a deep, 
 handsome room, and the customers are made at 
 their ease while there, and supplied with goods, we 
 presume, at fair prices. 
 
 Minor & Co., on Chapel street, have a great trade 
 in the business of crockery and glass, kerosine oil, 
 etc. 
 
 There are also other smaller houses doing some 
 business of the same sort here and there in the city. 
 
 The Hat stores of Collins, and Crofut, and Thom- 
 as, are on Chapel street above ths Depot. 
 
 The Carpet stores of Foster & Son, and of Fair- 
 man & Bronson, and of F. Smith, are on Chapel 
 street. 
 
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 The beautifiil Music-Stoke of Skinner & Sperfy, 
 containing tliirty years' stock of music, and all tlie 
 miscellany of a first-class stationery and fancy goods 
 department, is on Chapel street near State. 
 
 Shoninger's and Stienhart's and Loomis' are on the 
 same street a little above. 
 
 The Dry Goods house of T. P. Merwin & Co., lo- 
 cated at Nos. 291 and 293 Chapel street, just above 
 Orange street, is one of the finest in the State. This 
 enterprising firm, estabUshed in 1856, have built up 
 an enviable trade and reputation, by dealing only in 
 choice first-class goods, as well as by their strictly 
 fair and honorable dealing with all. 
 
 Recently they have introduced into their main 
 salesroom the most novel and perfect store-seat ever 
 invented, being securely fastened to the counter, yet 
 at any moment can be folded up and put entirely 
 out of the way. Visitors to the city should see 
 this beautiful seat, and also the " Evening Effect 
 Room," where, at all hours during the day, goods 
 may be seen as they will appear by evening light. 
 
 "Wilcox & Hall have a very handsome dry goods 
 store on the north side of Chapel street. It is one 
 of the most attractive on the street, having under- 
 gone most thorough and extensive improvements. 
 They show a nice assortment of silks, linens, staple 
 cotton and woolen goods, and have made up a trade 
 of the most remunerative character. They have a 
 store of ample dimensions — deep, broad, attractive, 
 with young lady clerks as well as gentlemen, and 
 
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 tlie store has hardly a superior if an equal in the 
 city. 
 
 THE GROCERY STORES. 
 
 , The heavy Grocery and Flour Stores are on the 
 wharves, and in State street, tor the greater part. 
 The Shipping and Coal Merchants and the Lumljer 
 Merchants, are on the wharves, and along Watei' 
 street, to the east side of the city, to the steamboat 
 dock. Vessels bearing coal, lumber, oysters, and 
 heavy groceries, go through the draw-bridges and 
 discharge cargo above, at Fair Haven and else- 
 where. 
 
 The Retail Grocery and Meat Stores are to be 
 found in nearly every block, in the more populous 
 and business sections of the city. As there is no 
 general meat market in New Haven, many of the 
 retail grocery stores have made the sale of meat 
 a great item in their trade. Some of them make a 
 very extensive thing of it, and have found their 
 profit in doing so. We cannot give their name and 
 locality to any extent, more than to say they are 
 found on nearly every block in the city, as in State 
 street. Chapel street, Wooster street. Church street, 
 Grand street, George street. Crown street, Broad- 
 way, and Howe street. Some of the stores do a 
 splendid business, and employ large capital. 
 
 We will give the names of a few of them. Pier- 
 pont, in Broadway ; Merrill and Sanford, also, 
 Hotchkiss, Hine, Warner & Guernsey, in Howe 
 street ; Lessey, in West Chapel street ; and Root, E. 
 
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 Knight Sperry, in Chapel, corner of High street ; 
 and opposite, the new store of Hurlbut & Northrup, 
 successors to the old firm of D. W. Buckingham & Co. 
 Mr. Sperry has a well furnished store, and is atten- 
 tive to his customers, and to the demands of his 
 trade. 
 
 Au^in & Gilbert, retail grocers, corner of Elm 
 and Church street, trade heavily in meat. So does 
 Judson on State street. 
 
 Besides these, there are many retail grocers, who 
 confine their trade more to groceries as a specialty, 
 and sell little meat, if any, except dried fish and 
 hams, as, for example. Cooper, Thompson, Johnson, 
 Clark, &c., on State street ; Bradley, Rowland, on 
 Chapel street; Stowe & Somers, Bailey, Oaks, 
 and Dailey, on Church street ; Reed, Taft, &c., on 
 George street. 
 
 The Music Stores and Piano Rooms, 
 Are Steinhert's music store. Chapel street, now re- 
 moved above State street. Skinner and Sperry, 
 Chapel street, above the Depot, where you can find 
 almost everything. C. M. Loomis, pianos, music, 
 etc.. Chapel, above Orange, Walker, on Church street, 
 and Punderford on George street. Beside these, a 
 few pianos are sold by small dealers, or teachers, 
 while the manufacture and sale by the B. Shoninger 
 Piano and Melodeon Association, is a very large 
 business, as also is the Parmelee piano-making house 
 in Park street. The Baumgarten Organ builders 
 also do a heavy and successful amount of work. 
 
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 Their instruments have been much complimented^, 
 and they do good service. 
 
 C. M. LooMis, has come to be rather the leading; 
 music man of the city. Beginning in a small "way,, 
 by rapid steps Mr. Loom's pushed forward his piano ■ 
 interests, advertising extensively, and combining 
 matters of trade like stationery, gold i)ens, soldier's 
 medals, drums, and fifes, and violins, selling cheap, 
 and selling any way ; combining all with great in- 
 ducements in the purchase of a piano, he has come 
 to stand perhaps at the highest point in the sale of 
 this instrument. At the same time, a good many 
 other pianos than his, have been sold by other 
 dealers in New Haven, for it is impossible that one- 
 man should sell the whole. But we are certain that 
 Mr. Loomis has done a large business, and built up' 
 a piano trade which is remarkable in New Haven^ 
 He publishes also a monthly musical journal which 
 undoubtedly contributes to his success. Mr. Loomis 
 is one of those men born to find his ideal in the- 
 chase of life, and to make his fortune where another 
 might fail. 
 
 At the corner of Chapel and Orange street is the- 
 tea store of M. Thomas. This is a large handsome- 
 establishment with a great trade in spices and teas.. 
 It is in a well known place for these goods, and by^ 
 almost everybody is considered one of the safe places* 
 to procure them. The rush of customers to his 
 counters is such, at times, one can hardly afford to 
 wait his turn. The tea and coffee trade is highly 
 
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 respectable, and we hope Mr. Thomas will find it 
 remunerative. 
 
 Sewing Machines. 
 
 What a wonderful invention is the sewing machine ! 
 It lifts half at least of life's burden at once from the 
 shoulders of woman, and gives her freedom for some- 
 thing else. The diflerent machines in the market 
 such as the Florence, the Howe, the Weed, the Sin- 
 ger, the Wheeler and Wilson, Grover and Baker, etc., 
 must often cause some hesitancy in one's choice. 
 But there can be little risk if one should decide on 
 the best. We commend to our friends the Weed 
 sewing machine. In this city, the agent is Mr. John 
 W. Osborne, a gentleman of much integrity of cha- 
 racter, who knows well, and can tell you the merits 
 of this machine in all its claims. The New York 
 House of this company is 613 Broadway. 
 Pictures. 
 
 Don't fail to call on Mr. Evarts Cutler on Chapel 
 street, if in want of a choice chronio, oil paintmg 
 or engraving. His store is a model of neatness ; 
 his selections exhibit great taste, and a desire to 
 meet the best wishes of lovers of fine pictures, and 
 his business shows the great advance of the public 
 taste in this department within a very few years in 
 this city. We would say to all, emphatically, that 
 Mr. Cutler offers special attractions in the Fine Arts, 
 and purchasers should call there, on this account, 
 before decidmg on poorer styles elsewhere. There 
 are not many stores in the country where so much 
 
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 tnstc is displayed, as well in frames also, as in the 
 pictures. If anew and handsome wall is to be deco- 
 rated b}' a family in the city, fond of i)ictures by the 
 old masters, or b}' the best copyists and engravers, 
 we heartily commend them to search the folios of 
 Mr. Cutler. 
 
 There are pictures at Skinner and Sperry's, 
 Smith and Austin, Thomas II. Lewis, and at Louis 
 Le Bar's, also at Ilawley's on Orange street. 
 Westville, Mills, Etc. 
 
 Westvir.e lies within the township of New Haven 
 only a small part of the village is within the limits 
 of the city. It is but two miles from the centre of 
 the city, and there are some extensive business 
 establishments in the place, well worth the time, to 
 see, speak of, and to visit. For instance, there is 
 the hardware casting and furnace works of the 
 Blake Brothers on Bhike street, a house long estab- 
 lished, universally known and esteemed. Kot deal- 
 ing in exact figures, we should say in general, their 
 house had a name and existence equally long with 
 the Harper's in New York, and like that, wherever 
 known, held in the highest regard. They employ 
 a large force of hands, and carry out a course as 
 thorough in their business, as discipline in the army. 
 They have gone through pressure in the market, 
 fire, and have even had laid on them the touch of 
 the finger of death ; and still the house moves on 
 steady and calm fulfilling its ends. Two of their 
 celebrated inventions are these. The little hickory 
 
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 nut cracker and the huge stone crusher for macad- 
 emized roads. They have maintained their right in 
 this patent against suits in this country, and we 
 think in Europe. Then we come to the extensive 
 Beecher Basket works and Friction Matches of A. 
 Bcecher and sons. They employ a hirge number of 
 hands, and turn off an incredible amount of work. 
 Indeed, enormous quantities of these baskets(saying 
 nothing of the match boxes and other work), are 
 here manufactured, and carted off as freight to 
 many different jDoints. The extent to which this 
 business has grown, is truly wonderful. ]More than 
 a million of strawberry baskets are made annually. 
 The Hardware and Manilla Paper Mill, right at the 
 foot of the West Rock ledge, is worth going over. 
 Mr. Peck the former owner, has left it in the hands 
 of Mr. A. B. Mallory, and under his charge the 
 works are throwing off a great quantity of the best 
 wrapping paper in market. Then there are the ex- 
 tensive works of Mr. E. Merriman on the other side 
 of the stream, nearer the base of West Rock. Just 
 above these works, is the heavy and well known 
 Paper Mill of Messrs. Fred. & Jos. Parker. Their 
 extensive range of machinery, enables them to jjre- 
 pare almost any style of paper which is in demand, 
 and to seize every opportunity that the state of trade 
 permits, to improve their instruments. 
 
 As not long since, we found they were all shut 
 down on newspapers, and were running day and 
 night on the first quality of heavy paper for neck 
 
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 CoLLAHS. They employ a great many women in the 
 rag department, and give work to a large class of 
 villagers, and to hands from abroad. Their works 
 are run at great expense and we hope with corres- 
 jjonding profit. 
 
 Further up the stream, we come to the Paper 
 Mill and works of James Harper, called the Lilly 
 Pond Paper Mill. This mill has in hand the supply 
 of large orders of neics paper. It makes large ship- 
 ments to New York and elsewhere, manufacturing 
 a very superior paper at fair prices. All these 
 works lie along close under the brows of West Rock 
 and are all within distance of a mile. At Westville 
 the " Elm City " laundr}-- is established, and may be 
 said to be now a necessity to New Haven. This 
 company is driven hard to perform its weekly en- 
 gagements. Their teams course the city at all hours 
 of the day gathering up parcels or returning the clean 
 and shining linen to the different owners. The 
 churches and schools of Westville, the Post offices, 
 stores, all lie near together, and the city of New 
 Haven is accessible to the whole by a few moments 
 ride in the horse cars. 
 
 The Banks. 
 
 Travellers always carry money with them, and 
 many times have business with the banks. The 
 City of Elms is as well supplied with good and safe 
 banking institutions as can be found in the country. 
 
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 The buildings, and rooms, and vaults are an honor 
 to the institutions, and an ornament to the city. 
 The banking places of a city usually reflect honor 
 on it, and so we find New Haven, with reason, 
 boasting of her handsome banking institutions. 
 Look at the new and elegant marble building on 
 Church street, nearly opposite the Post Office, which 
 the Connecticut Savings' Bank has recently built 
 and now occupies. What a tall, elaborate, and 
 beautiful front ! How the marble sparkles in the 
 sunlight ! What a sensation almost of giddiness 
 seizes you as you stand near it, and look steadily 
 upward to its highest point. It is a tall, splendid 
 edifice, an ornament to any city in the country. 
 The old New Haven Bank, now the New Haven 
 National, corner of Orange and Chapel streets, has 
 been remodeled and put in very attractive style. 
 The City Bank opposite, and the Townsend Savings' 
 Bank on the other corner, are both substantial 
 edifices, and so is the Tradesman's, on ChajDcl street 
 below Orange, and the First National, on Chapel 
 near Church. The Yale National, formerly the 
 Quinnipiac, has just erected a splendid banking 
 house, on the corner of Chapel and State streets. 
 Its front-finish is the Nova Scotia free-stone. The 
 Elm City National is in the substantial brick block 
 of the Merchants' Exchange, near the Depot. The 
 New Haven County Bank is on State street near 
 Chapel. The Merchants' and the Mechanics' Bank 
 
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 blocks, and are safe depositories of money and valu- 
 ables. The City Saving's Bank, is on Orange street, 
 an extremely neat and safe building. 
 
 The private Banking House and Safe Deposit 
 Company of E. S. Scranton & Co., in Orange street, 
 in the Home Insurance Building, is one of the most 
 valuable of our moneyed institutions. They receivo 
 deposits of currency or coin and allow interests on 
 daily balances. They deal largely in Government 
 securities, and attend to Exchanges with Foreign 
 houses. Money and valuables arc safe in their 
 vaults. 
 
 There is not a poor and mean edifice among 
 them. Their business agents are well known as 
 responsible men. Money is safe in their hands — we 
 snjDpose uncounted gold would be. The vaults of 
 the new banks have been made perfectly impreg- 
 nable to the cunning of burglars and bank thieves. 
 If we had an iron box full of gold and silver, how 
 gladly would we deposit it for safe keeping in these 
 granite and iron-bound receptacles. The best way 
 to draw money out of these strongholds is to take 
 your note there with a perfectly responsible en- 
 dorser. 
 
 The Insurance Offices. 
 
 The oldest, best known, and successful is that of 
 John G. North. Aljnost everybody in New Haven 
 knows this gentleman. He has insui*ed much prop- 
 
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 erty for many years, and also many lives. And Mr. 
 North, by that well-known combination in human 
 character of known benevolence and genius, has 
 been succesful in business affairs, and got together 
 his " pile," at the same time his kindly nature does 
 not seem to have suffered at all, but grown more 
 intense. He is a friend to religion, temperance^ 
 Sunday-schools, and the like. He shows us this 
 simple truth that a man may honestly employ him- 
 self in worldly enterprises, and at the same time be 
 a good man — an upright and useful citizen. Mr. 
 North's office is on Chapel street, nearly oj^posite 
 the Railroad Depot. 
 
 The Home Insurance Company is one of the 
 great inslitutions of New Elaven. They have a 
 $1,000,000 capital, and a splendid banking house on 
 Orange, near ChaiDel street. They own largely in 
 real estate in the city, build blocks, and buy lots 
 wherever the investment holds out a solid induce- 
 ment. 
 
 The Mutual Life Insurance of New York, with 
 cash assets of thirty millions, a great institution of 
 its kind, has an office and agency in New Haven, at 
 No. 201 Chapel street. 
 
 If you have business with the Insurance Offices, 
 you will find them, for the most part, on Chapel and 
 Church streets, or immediately in the vicinity. 
 
 The Hartford. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, 
 Baltimore and Washington Life and Stock Com- 
 panies of Insurance, have their branch offices and 
 
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 agents here, and togetlier issue a very large number 
 of ijolicies. 
 
 Call at Mr. George Lester's new and costly 
 Insurance Rooms, in that elegant new banking build- 
 ing, erected by the Yale National Bank. This 
 edifice, so ornamental to the city, and so perfect in 
 its accommodations, is on the corner of Chapel and 
 State streets. Mr. Lester, late of the firm ot Webb 
 & Lester, long familiar with the business and full of 
 enthusiasm, has taken the lower rooms of the Bank 
 on Chapel street, fitted them up in a most complete 
 and handsome manner, and has entered at once on a 
 most extensive and successful business. All kinds of 
 insurance in the most safe and responsible companies 
 can be efl'ected through him, at the lowest rates ever 
 ofi"cred. He makes insurance a principal feature of 
 his business, while at the same time he has the most 
 complete arrangements for the prosecution ot his 
 Ticket Agency. He will issue tickets covering all 
 the principal Railroads of the whole Southern and 
 "Western railways in all their connecting lines, at the 
 lowest possible figures. He has taken up, also, tlio 
 furnishing of tickets to those who are bound for 
 Europe, CaUfornia, or the East. He is ready to sell 
 tickets for any of the great Pacific Mail Steamers — 
 the Cunard line, the Inman, and National, on satis- 
 factory terms. 
 
 Our old friend, ]\Ir. H. H. Bunnell, also goes in 
 as a Banker and Broker, within the same elegant 
 walls, and on the same floor. He receives deposits 
 
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 and allows interest on valuables, buys and sells Gov- 
 ernment securities, railroad bonds and stocks. It is 
 convenient to run into his office for revenue stamps, 
 to nes^otiate a loan on Government bonds, or to buy 
 or sell a little gold. 
 
 The Ladies. 
 
 But what were Paradise itself without the mother 
 of mankind, beauteous Eve ? The ciiy of Elms, in 
 like manner, were a desert, or it were as a city of 
 desolation, but for its fair and virtuous women. 
 Strong men would sit down in sadness, bewailing 
 their loneliness, and all the places of business and 
 pleasure would be shrouded in gloom. How sweet 
 is the task, then, to write of those whose presence 
 is the sunshine of life, and to bear our testimony 
 to their exalted and generous character. Like other 
 goodly cities of our country. New Haven can boast 
 of a large and preponderating class of beautiful 
 ladies. 
 
 They are found presiding in the domestic circle, 
 as virtuous and intelligent Wives. We know ot 
 no women so fair as the wives of husbands who 
 give them honor for their faithful and virtuous ex- 
 ample. The highest beauty, therefore, is that which 
 makes the Home a place of joy and attraction. The 
 married ladies of New Haven combrise a very intel- 
 ligent class, and combine pure moral excellence 
 with attractive graces of person. And we are happy 
 
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 to believe that few domestic infelicities arc Imown 
 here, compared with the great concord that reigns 
 throughout the city. And it is in such homes, un- 
 der the training, example, and teachmg of such 
 mothers, that the young and fair daughters who 
 promenade the streets, or enrich the evening enter- 
 tainments by their presence, and crowd the church- 
 es on the Sabbath — in such homes, we say, the 
 daughters become beautifiJ also. 
 
 New Haven is a city of good interest, therefore, 
 not the least ot its attractions being that of its fair 
 ones, who live not merely for the outward adorning, 
 but to intensify the enjoyments ef domestic life ; to 
 show compassion to the sick and desponding ; to 
 labor in behalf of the benighted ; to frown on that 
 which is evil, and follow after that which is good. 
 Around them they cast attractions impossible to 
 shake off. 
 
 Who that admires the grace, beauty, virtue, fa- 
 shion and wealth, the poets speak of, can be indif- 
 ferent to the living presence of one of these ? Sho 
 is more precious than rubies ; and we may say of 
 her, as in the praise of wisdom, " All the things 
 thou canst desire are not to be compared to her." 
 And hence it may be, and probably is, that we have 
 so many Men of virtuous and substantial charact-er 
 in New Haven. They come under the best of fe- 
 male influences, and accept gracefully the mould- 
 ing of their character after the all-pervading ex- 
 ample of theij fair compiM lions. It is the wise and 
 
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 good men of any community, the virtuous and intel- 
 ligent, who are its main strength and beauty. Ten 
 righteous men would have saved Sodom. When we 
 remember this, we should look about us to see how 
 many good and faithful ones there are, be there 
 ever so many who roll in wealth, and mock at truth, 
 the votaries of pleasure and fashion. If there is one 
 good and virtuous man in town, he is better than 
 gold. 
 
 Lccalities. 
 
 And by these we mean private dwellings. Drive 
 up Hilihouse Avenue. Crowning the summit of 
 the Avenue is the ancient house and domain of the 
 Hilihouse family. Along down the Avenue, are the 
 mansions of the Davenports, the Collins, the Silli- 
 mans, Fisher, Porter, and Sheffield, whose elegant 
 and extensive mansion is at the foot of this beauti- 
 ful Avenue. N ear by, at the head of Temple street, 
 is the old dwelling of the late Noah Webster, 
 Esq. now much, improved and modernized by Mj. 
 Kenry Trowbridge, the present occupant. Temple 
 street followed through, presents fine dwellings, 
 many of them a little past the age, but some are of 
 modern"date and elegance ; Dr. Ives', Mr. Ezekiel 
 Trowbridge's, etc. The Roman Catholics are about 
 to erect a very imposing church or cathedral on 
 the comer of Temple and Grove street. Below 
 this, on the comer of Church and Grove is the 
 celebrated female school of Professor Hubbard, 
 
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 late Hiss Button's. In Churcli street near by, re- 
 side Hon. Henry White, Rev. Dr. Bacon, President 
 Woolsey, Professor Salisbury, Dr. Bishop, Bev. Dr. 
 Patton, Mrs. W. Trowbridge. The late Lieutenant 
 Governor of the state, Mr. Winchester, and his 
 business partner Mr. Davis, have each erected mag- 
 nificent houses on the high land to the north of 
 Hillhouse avenue ; a drive or walk around their 
 home parks is exceedingly pleasing. Massena 
 Clark and Mr. Eli Whitney have elegant houses on 
 the Whitneyville avenue, and there, also, are the 
 rich dwellings of Mr. North and Mr. Bead. Orange 
 street is a long, beaubiful, quiet street which runs 
 out almost to East Bock. On this resides the late 
 Mayor, Col. L. W. Sperry, who has served as Mayor 
 for three years ; also his brother Hon, N. D. Sperry 
 the Post Master, Dr. F. J. Whittemore, Mr. Andrew 
 De Forest, Col. Eli Blake, Mrs. Lester ; the late 
 Hon. John Woodruff had his residence here, 
 Amos F. Barnes, Col. S. E. Merwin, Frederick Ives, 
 H. B. Bigelow, P. B. Foster, A. P. Hotchkiss, John 
 W. Nichols, W. M. Smith. On Elm street fronting 
 the public Green, are the mansions of D. De Forest 
 laiowni as •' Don " De Forest now deceased ; Misses 
 Edwards the well-known teachers, Thomas B. Trow- 
 bridge, Esq., Hon. Balph I. IngersoU, Mr. Eli Blake, 
 etc. ; and below Church street is the venerable man- 
 sion of the late James Brewster, Esq. now in the 
 hands of Mr. John B. Carr ngton ; the substantial 
 briclj house of 'Mrs. Eli Whitney, widow of the 
 
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 world-renowned inventor of the Cotton Gin, and 
 youngest daughter of Pierpont Edwards, Esq. 
 Opposite, Sheffield's fine houses, etc. 
 
 On State street and North, J. T. >Iix, Chas. S. 
 A. Davis, Wm. Skinner. On Grand street toward 
 Fair Haven, H. J. Atwater, N. D. Sperry, and Wil- 
 lis M. Smith. On Chapel street below the Depot . 
 Edwin Marble's fine residence, Mr. Nelson Hotch- 
 kiss', now Mr. Clark's, Judge Betts', Mrs. Kipg's, 
 Chas. Robinson, Esq. Governor English's. On 
 Wooster street and square, elegant dwellings On 
 Colombus street, crowded, filling up. 
 
 On Howard avenue Mr. Gilbert Hine'? house 
 Mr McKee's, Dr. Dubois's etc. 
 
 On Davenport avenue, the dwellings are fast fill- 
 ing this beautiful driveway. 
 
 On Howe street the elegant mansion and grounds 
 of C. S. Maltby Esq., quite at the hsad of the 
 street. Also the houses of Judge Miller, "Wilson 
 Clark Esq. N. "W. Mervvin, John E. Basset, and 
 Elder Bangs, the venerable Methodist elder on 
 this circuit, whose praise is in all their churches. 
 
 On Chapel street above the Depot, the splendid 
 mansion of Mr. Gaius F. AVarner near the colleges, 
 the wood house of Henry White Esq., the new 
 block of Dr. Rodman and others ; Mr. Wm. Hall's, 
 Mr. Geo. Cook's houses ; the house of the lamented 
 Mayor Scranton, Deacon Wm. A. Ives, the hand- 
 some wood house of Mr. E. P. Cowles, late of Mr. 
 Clark Beack ; the rich mansion and groundF of Mr. 
 
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 Burton Mailory, Mr. Malloy, Mr. Sperrj^ Benja- 
 min Noyes Esq, Mr. Bliss, etc. 
 
 On Sherman avenue, there are to be princely edi- 
 fices. On Martin street, at the head of the street, 
 is the Alms House. On Whalley avenue, the house 
 of the late Elam Hull, five new brick blocks of Mr. 
 Larkin, Mr. Ed. Downes' house, Mr. Albert Mal- 
 lory's, Mr. Bowditch's, etc. Mr. Henry Plumb's 
 fine mansion, recently erected. 
 
 On York street, there is a fine block of brick 
 houses built by Dr. Morrill, and Mr. C. A. Dick- 
 erman ; a new brick house by N. Jocelyn, Esq ; Mr. 
 Osborne's house is here, Mr. Hoadley's, Gardner 
 Morse's, etc. 
 
 In High street Mr. G. "W. Goodsell has a hand- 
 some dwelling, Mr Asa Bacon also ; and there are 
 several good houses all around about that section 
 of the city. 
 
 In CroAvn street Mr. E. Benjamin, Mr. Mason, 
 Judge Osborne, Dr. Sanford reside ; the late Gover- 
 nor Dutton resided in this street. 
 
 In College street, Mr. S. I. Baldwin, Dr. Hub- 
 bard, Mr. T. P. Merwin, j\Iayor Tyler, have good 
 and tasteful dwellings. Also Mr. Baldwin near the 
 church. And further on, we come to several good 
 dwellings ; Professor Geo. E. Day's, Mrs. Hiller's, 
 John G. North's, etc. 
 
 Cemeteries. 
 
 The Old Cemetery, as it is called, has its en- 
 trance through a large sandstone gateway at the 
 
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 head of High street. Around it has been erected a 
 massive sandstone wall, -vvith towers on each corner ; 
 the front, on Grove street, having tall iron pickets 
 instead. Within it is beautifully laid out in squares, 
 very densely shaded with evergreens and other 
 appropriate trees, and it abounds with monuments 
 commemorative of the departed. 
 
 Almost the first monument that meets your eye on 
 entering the ground is that of Ashmun, the first 
 Colonial Agent at Siberia, on Hawthorne Path. 
 
 On Laurel Avenue iii the grave of Arthur Tap- 
 pan, and also that of Joim Durrie. 
 
 On Locust Avenue is the beautiful monument of 
 Mr. John Fitch and children ; also Rev. Dr. Cleve- 
 land's lot, Rev. Dr. Crosswell's, etc. 
 
 On Cedar Avenue are the graves of Rev. Dr. Tay- 
 lor, and Rev. Lyman Beecher, James Brewster, Dr. 
 Dwight, Prof Olmsted, Goodrich, Dr. Webster, Prof. 
 Sillman, and Jedcdiah Morse, surmounted by a globe. 
 
 On Spruce Avenue^ the grave of Pelatiah Perit. 
 
 On Ivy Path is the grave of Elbridge Gerry, Vice 
 President of the United States. 
 
 On Maple Avenue is the very rich monument of 
 Aaron Skinner ; also, Forbes' lot, Woolsey's and 
 Dwight's, Henry Trowbridge's obelisk, Wm. R. 
 Hayes' grave, Roger S. Baldwin's, the Htllhousb; 
 lot, David Daggett's, Admiral A. H. Foote's, 
 Pierpont's, Edwards, etc. 
 
 Yale College Lot is from Linden Avenue to 
 Maple, on Hawthorne Path, east of Central Avenue. 
 
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 On Sylvan Avenue are the graves of Rev. and Mrs. 
 S. W. S. Button. 
 
 On Magnolia Avenue^ on tlie west of the entrance, 
 is the monument of Sidney E. Morse. 
 
 On Central Avenue are the gi-aves of Prof. IMur- 
 dock, Gov. Dutton, Amasa Goodyear, Amos Trow- 
 bridge, Henry Peck. 
 
 The Neio Ever-Green Cemetery is in the western 
 part of the city, near the famous old Reddie Cot- 
 tage, and is reached from the city by way of Sylvan 
 Av£nue, from the head of Howe street, and, in fact, 
 from many other streets indirectly. It is a handsome 
 ground, laid out with great taste, and many repose 
 in its silent graves. 
 
 The Jtioish Cemetery is far out on Whalley Avenue, 
 near the village of Westville. 
 
 St. BernarcVs Cemetery is in the southwest part of 
 the city, nenr the junction of Columbus street. Con- 
 gress and Davenport Avenues, and is subject to 
 much ornamentation and care. Formerly many of 
 the Roman Catholics buried their dead in the small 
 cemetery adjoining St. John's Church, on Davenport 
 Avenue and South street. 
 
 We have heard it suggested that it would be wise 
 for the city, or for an association, to purchase fiom 
 three hundred to live hundred acres of wild land 
 lying back on the hills above Allingtown, and so on 
 north to the Derby Turnpike, overlooking the city, 
 for a Rural Cemetery. The route there would be 
 by way of West Chapel street and Derby Avenue. 
 
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 Sucli a movement, if started, would find great favor, 
 and as the grounds could now be purchased for a 
 low price, they would be safe to hold. 
 
 Newspapers. 
 
 ■ You can not of course get through the day at 
 New Haven without the newapajDers. The local 
 dailies, are 
 
 The Morning Journal and Courier. 
 
 The Morning Palladium. 
 
 The Evening Register. 
 
 These are the old regulars. They have held the 
 ground shoulder to shoulder thirty years or so. The 
 former is printed on State street above Chapel. The 
 Palladium, on Union north of the depot. The latter 
 on Chapel street below Orange and is the Democratic 
 paper. The others are Republican. They are 
 somewhat belligerent in their tone, but rarely come 
 to blows. 
 
 All New Haven looks through them on all the 
 rest of the world daily, year in and year out, be- 
 coming wiser by the repetition ; and yet strangely 
 prone to grumble at the bills ! 
 
 Then we have the College Courant, puplished 
 hi the Glebe Building by Mr. C. C. Chatfield, and 
 assistant Editors of the senior class in College, This 
 handsome sheet is published weekly and reflects 
 the interests of the College, and cont'iins largely 
 interesting notices of all the other colleges of the 
 country. 
 
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 There is tlie Musical monthly journal of Mr. 
 Lewis the semi-occasional publications of advertis- 
 ing sheets for the convenience of the public at con- 
 certs and the railway depots. 
 
 Silliraan's Journal of science, is published at 
 New Haven, carefully edited by Prof. James D. Dana 
 and others. The New englander, a quarterly of 
 much celebrity, is also issued there. 
 
 The New Haven directory is a regular volume 
 issued early in the summer by Benham. Beckwith's 
 Almanac, a great flivorite, is published every full by 
 H. H. Peck, bookseller. 
 
 The printing houses are J. H. Benham & Son, 
 Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, and Stafford on State 
 street. 
 
 news offices. 
 
 New York "Herald," "Times," "Tribune," 
 "AVoRLD ! " This is the cry at New Haven as well as 
 in New York and elsewhere. The New York 
 dailies arrive here at half-past ten every morning 
 and are immediately borne to the news-offices, fokled 
 and rushed and cried through the city. Crowds of 
 people await their coming at the station house and 
 at the other places of sale. Mitchell has his head- 
 quarters in the depot building near the northern 
 door of exit, Woodruff has his news office a little 
 way up Chapel street, Pease still further on, and 
 DowNEs is at the corner of Chapel and Church. 
 Hoadley also sells them near the colleges; and 
 
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 ScKAJ^TOX on Church street near the Post Office 
 The German Papers are also sold in great numbers 
 and a very large amount of magazines, weeklies, 
 monthlies, quarterlies — hundreds of thousands an- 
 nually. The traders combine with these stationery, 
 books, and many miscellaneous articles that help to 
 swell the amount of their sales. 
 
 BOOK STORES. 
 
 One of the old established houses in the city is 
 that 01 Mr. Henry H. Peck on Chapel street near 
 Church, a young man and grandson of the late 
 Mayor Peck of the old firm of Durrie and Peck. 
 His store is well filled with the Literature of the 
 day, classical and other standard works, school 
 books, stationery, etc. It is very central and con- 
 venient, and ofl'ers inducements to all lovers of 
 books to call and examine the stock. 
 
 Beside this, books are for sale by Messrs. Judd 
 & White who have their store on Chapel street, near 
 State ; also by Mr. WoodruflF, and at all the news 
 ofilces ; by Mr. Thomas C. Lewis near Trinity 
 Church ; Mr. H. Crosswell Ward in the New Haven 
 Hotel block; Mr. George C. Hoadley near South 
 College and by Mr. Frank S. Jarman at the Sabbath 
 School Depository in the exchange block fronting on 
 Church street. Mr. Jarman is agent for the sale of 
 Bibles, Sabbath School books, missionary matters, 
 etc. 
 
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 The City Hall. 
 
 The City Hall is on Church street, near Chapel, 
 and opposite the Green. It is owned by the city. 
 This is, perhaps, the handsomest public building in 
 New Haven. It was erected at great expense, but 
 not at lavish cost. Here are all the offices of the 
 city authorities — the Mayor's office, the Assessors' 
 room, the City Clerk's office; large rooms for the 
 sittings of the Superior Courts, and othes courts of 
 Connecticut, and also for the Police Court. In the 
 rear is a strong, well-built department to hold safely 
 the persons arrested by the police, when they can 
 be held without charge one night, or when awaiting 
 trial. 
 
 The regular meeting of the New Haven Colony 
 Historical Society, are also held in the City Hall, and 
 very often papers of the most valuable character 
 are read before the Society. The wonder is that the 
 rooms are not crowded to hear them. 
 
 The Merchants' Ezchange. 
 
 Formerly Brewster's Hall, over the Elm City 
 (National) Bank, as it now is, was the only large 
 and convenient place in the city of New Haven for 
 holding first-class concerts and other evening enter- 
 tainments. But the city outgrew this. Music 
 Hall, an immense edifice in comijarison, drew off 
 the pleasure-seekers, and is now itself too small to 
 accommodate all when any great excitement calls 
 
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 out the people. Brewster's Hall is now the IMer- 
 chant's Exchange. There the merchants and 
 business class assemble and discuss important mat- 
 ters relating to the city or to individual interests. 
 The Hall is therefore again brought into notice, and 
 is quite celebrated. It is situated near the Depot, 
 on the corner of Union and Chapel streets. 
 
 Union Hall is on Union street, north of the 
 Merchants' Exchange. 
 
 The Old Temple is on Court street, opposite the 
 Tremont Hotel, and was once about the best place 
 Kew Haven had for public concerts. 
 
 Smith's Hall is in the brick block on Chapel 
 street, west of the Park House, and opposite the 
 Green. Music Hall we have spoken of at length 
 elsewhere ; it is on Crown street near Church. 
 
 The American Hall is at the corner of Church 
 and Crown streets. 
 
 Tyler's Hall is on Chapel street, south side, a 
 little to the east of Church. 
 
 Day's Hall is in Broadway, corner of Elm and 
 York street, and beside there is the Old Exchange 
 Hall, in the large building corner of Chapel and 
 Church street, once the great centre where every 
 body went to " see sights," and hear eloquence. 
 There are the Armories of the Horse Guards, the 
 Grays, the Blues, etc., the Masonic Halls, the Odd 
 Fellows' Halls, and Hibernian Lodges. 
 
 And with these still others are contemplated ; for 
 the City of Elms is rapidly increasing in popula- 
 
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 tion. Where a few yerirs since there were but 
 ten and twenty thousand people, now there are 
 nearly fifty thousand. Germania Hall is in State 
 street. 
 
 The Young Men's Ciiristian Association have 
 convenient rooms over the City Bank, corner of 
 Chapel and Orange street, and exert a wide influence 
 or good in the city. They hold a daily meeting, 
 for prayer at noon. 
 
 The Young Men's Institute, has its Reading 
 Room and Library in the Chambers of the Phoenix 
 Building, Chapel street ; and gives its series of pop- 
 ular lectures ; and Parepa- Rosa, Camilla Urso, Ole 
 Bull, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn concerts at its Mu- 
 sic Hall. It has done a great work for the education 
 and amusement of the young people of New Havea 
 not to say for all classes and ages of citizens. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
Mail Arrangements. 
 
 Post Office, New Haven, Conn. —The Post Office is 
 in Church Street, south of Chapel. — Q^ce Hours : April 
 1 to October 1—7 a. m. to 8 p. m. October 1 to April 1 
 
 — 72 A. M. to 8 p. M. 
 
 ABKIVAIi AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS. 
 
 New York, Western and Southern.— Closes at 9.15 a. m. ; 
 1.30, 7.45, and *io.oo p. m. Open at 7.00 and 11.00 a. m. ; 6.30 and 
 7.30 p. M. 
 
 New York Railroad, Way.— Closes at 1.30 and *io.oo p. m. 
 Open at 11.00 a. m., and 7.30 p. m. 
 
 Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. — Closes at 1.30 
 and 7.45 p. M. Open at 7.00 and 11.00 A. M. 
 
 Northern Way, to Bellows Falls, Vermont, and all Way 
 Stations. — Closes at 10.00 a. m. Open at 2.30 r. 11. 
 
 Hartford and Springfield. — Closes at 7.45 and 10.00 a. m., 
 and 5.15 p. M. Open at 10.00 a. m., and 2.30 and 8.30 p. m. 
 
 MiDDLETOWN. — Closcs at lo.oo A. M., and 5.15 p. M. Open at 2.30 
 and 8.30 p. M. 
 
 Rhode Island. — Closes at 10.00 A. m , and 5.15 and 10.00 p. M.f 
 Open at 7.30 a. m., and 2 30 p. m. 
 
 Boston and Eastern New England.— Closes at 10.00. a. m. 
 5.15 and 10.00 p. M.t Open at 7.30 a. m. ; 2.30 and 8.3o p. m. 
 
 Norwich. — Closes at 10.00 a. m., and lo.co p. m. Open at 2.30 
 and 7.4s p M. 
 
 New London. — Closes at 10.00 a. m., and 10.00 p. M.t Open at 
 7.30 A. m. and 7.4s p. m. 
 
 Guilford. — Closes at 10.00 a. m., and 5.15 P. m. Open at 7.45 p.m. 
 
 New London Railroad, Way, Eastern Connecticut, and 
 Rhode Island. — Closes at 10.00 a. m., and 2.45 p. m. Open at 
 7.4s p. M. 
 
 Canal Railroad, Way. — Closes at 2.45 p. m. Open at 10.00 a.m. 
 
 Naugatuck Railroad, Way. — Closes at 9.00 a. m. Open al 
 6.30 p. M. 
 
 HousATONic Railroad, Way.— Closes at 8.45 a. m. Open at 
 
 6.30 p. M. 
 
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 Waterburv, Naugatuck, Seymour, Ansonia, and Derby. — 
 Closes at 9 a. m., and 4.30 p. M. Open at 11.00 a. m., and 6.30 p. M 
 
 West Meriden and Meriden.— Closes at 10.00 a. m„ and 5.13 
 P. M. Open at 10.00 a. m., and 3 30 p. m. 
 
 New Britain.— Closes at 10.00 a. m., and 5.15 r. m. Open at 
 2.30 p. M. 
 
 Hartford Stage, via Fair Haven, Durham.. &c. — Closes at 
 1.30 p. M. Open at 11.00 a. m. 
 
 Deep River, via North Branford, North Guilford, &c. — 
 Closes Tuesdays and Fridays, at 8.30 A. M. Open Mondays and 
 Thursdays at 5.30 p. m. 
 
 Fair Haven. — Closes at 10.00 a. m., and 5.30 p. M. Open at 11.00 
 A. M., and 7.30 p. M. 
 
 West Haven (by Horse Railroad.) — Closes at 10.00 a. m., and 
 5.15 p. M. Open at 9.00 a. m., and 8.20 p. m. 
 
 California.— Closes at 7. 15 p. m. 
 
 Foreign (via Steamers.)— Closes at 7.15 p. m. 
 
 * Sunday evenings at 9.00. t Sunday evenings at 7.00. 
 
 N. d! SPERRY. p. M. 
 
 Railroad Time Ta"ble. 
 
 The Raileoad Cars from all parts of tlie country 
 come into the depot, wliich is in Chapel street and 
 Union street, near State. 
 
 NEW YOKE AND NEW HAVEN RAILEOAD. 
 
 Trains leave New Haven. Arrive in New York. 
 
 Mail at 2.40 a. m 5.30 a. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 5.30 and 6.30 a. m. (Ex. 1 
 
 from Stamford to New York, ) >■ 9. 30 a. m. 
 
 connects with Way at Stamford, 8. 15. ) 9. 55 a. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 8.10 a. m 11.15 a. m. 
 
 Express at 9.50 a. m 12.55 a. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 12. 00 m 3. 20 p. m. 
 
 Boston Express at 2.05 p. m 4.55 p. m. 
 
 Boston Express at 4. 30 p. m 7. 20 p. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 5.00 p. m 8.10 p. m. 
 
 Boston Express at 8.30 p. m 11.20 p, m. 
 
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 Trains leave New Tork. Arrive in New Haven. 
 
 Stamford special, at G.20 a. m 7.55 a. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 7.00 a. m 10.20 a. m. 
 
 Boston Express at 8.00 a. m 10.50 a. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 11.30 a. m 2.50 p. m. 
 
 Boston Express at 12.15 p. m 3.10 p. m. 
 
 Boston Express at 3.00 p. m 5.50 p. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 3.45 p. m 7.12 p. m. 
 
 Express at 4.25 p. m 7.30 p. m. 
 
 Mail Train at 8.00 p. m 11.10 p. m. 
 
 Sunday Mail at 5.00 p. m 7.55 p. m. 
 
 Ansonia, special, leaves Ansonia at 7.30 a. m. 
 Ansonia, special, leaves New Haven at 6.30 p. m. 
 
 NEW HAVEN, HAKTFOED, AND SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 I^ave New Haven. Arrive in Hartford. 
 
 Accommodation at 7.55 a. m 9.30 a. m. 
 
 Express at 10.55 a. m 12.23 p. m. 
 
 Meriden, special, at 11.05 a. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 3.15 p. m 4.53 p. m. 
 
 Express at 5.55 p. m 7.19 p. m. 
 
 Accommodation to Meriden at 6.15 p. m. . . .7.07 p. m. 
 
 Mail Train at 11. 15 (night) 12.40 p. m. 
 
 Sunday Night, 7.50 9.12 p. m. 
 
 Leave Hartford. Arrive in Neio Haven. 
 
 Meriden Accommodation at 5.40 a. m 6.20 a. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 8.15 a. m 9.40 a. m. 
 
 Meriden, special, at 1.00 a. m 1.40 a. m. 
 
 Express at 12.50 p. m 2.05 a. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 3.30 p. m 4.55 a, m. 
 
 Express at 7.20 p. m 8.25 a. m. 
 
 Mail train for New York at 1.25 (night) 2.35 a. m. 
 
 Snnday night at 11.19 p. m 12.25 a. m. 
 
 SHOEE LINE KAILKOAD. 
 
 Leave New Haven. Arrive in New London, 
 
 Freight and Accommodation at 6.40 a. m 9.50 a. m. 
 
 Accommodation and Mail at 10.55 a. m 1.00 p. m. 
 
 New York and Boston Express at 3.15 p. m. .5.00 p. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 5.55 p. m 8.30 p. m. 
 
 Express Mail at 11.15 (night) 1.30 a. m. 
 
 Sunday night Mail at 7.50 p. m 9.50 p. m. 
 
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 Leave New London. Arrive in New Haven. 
 
 Accommodation and Freight at 6.40 a. m. . .9.25 a. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 11.15 a. m 1.35 p. m. 
 
 Boston and N. Y. Express at 2.35 p. m 4.25 p. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 5.10 p. m 7.35 p. m. 
 
 Express at 12.10 (night) 2.00 a. m. 
 
 Sunday night Mail at 10. 15 p. m 12. 15 a. m. 
 
 CANAL BALLKOAD. 
 
 Leave New Haven. Arrive in New Haven. 
 
 Accommodation at 6.30 a. m. for Williamsburg. 
 Plain ville at 7.40 a. m. 
 
 Accommodation at 10.55 a. m. for Collinsville. 
 Accommodation at 3.20 p. m. for Collinsville and Wil- 
 liamsburg. 
 
 {From New Haven, on the New York and New Haven B. R. ) 
 
 HOUSATONIC EAILEOAD. 
 
 Passengers for Housatonic Railroad will take the 9.50 
 a. m. and 4.30 p. m. trains to Bridgeport. 
 
 NAUGATUCK RAILKOAD. 
 
 Passengers for Naugatuck Railroad will take the 9.50 
 
 a. m. and 5 p. m. trains to the Junction ; and 
 
 6.30 p. m. for Derby and Ansonia. 
 
 DANBIJKY AND NOR WALK RAILROAD. 
 
 Passengers for Danbury and Norwalk Railroad will 
 
 take the 6.30 and 9.50 a. m., 12 m. and 5 p. m. 
 
 trains to Norwalk. 
 
 NEW CANAAN RAILROAD. 
 
 Passengers for the New Canaan Railroad will take the 
 6.30 a. m., 12 m., 4.30 p. m. trains to Stamford. 
 
 Steamboats. 
 
 The Old New Haven Steamboat Line on the 
 Sound, affords a most agreeable trip to New Haven 
 every day, at the low price of one dollar. The 
 
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 boats are : the Continental, Elm City, and Tra- 
 veler. One boat leaves New York from Peck Slip, 
 every day at 3.15 p. m., and arrives at New Haven 
 at 8.30. Another leaves every night at 11.30 p. m. 
 One boat leaves New Haven, from the dock near 
 Tomlinson's bridge, every day at 10.15 a. m., and 
 arrives in New York at about 3.15 p. m., as the other 
 is leaving there for New Haven. The return boat 
 leaves at 11 o'clock, evening. *' No charge for 
 berths," but the state rooms are charged $1.00 extra. 
 "T)inner is also an extra chiirge. 
 
 NEW HAVEN STEAMBOAT LINE FOR NEW YORK.— 
 Fare One Dollar. No charge for Berths. Commencing Mundaj% 
 May 3, 1S69. The Steamer Continental, Capt. Bowns, will leave 
 New Haven every night at 11.30 o'clock. Returning, leave New 
 York every afternoon at 3.30 (Simdays excepted ) The Elm City, 
 or the Traveler, Capt. Peck, will leave New Haven every morning, 
 at 10.15. Returning, will leave New York every night at 11 o'clock, 
 (Sundays excepted.) 
 
 Freight taken at very low rates. All Freight for the West taken at 
 New York rates from New Haven. 
 
 C. H. BROOKS, Agent. 
 
 The New Citizen's Line, formerly the Propeller, 
 makes the following notice of its Summer arrange- 
 ments. Capt. Curtiss is in command of the vessel : 
 
 FOR NEW YORK.— The first-class and elegantly furnished side- 
 wheel Steamer St.a.te of Maine has commenced to run regularly 
 between New Haven and New York. 
 
 Leaving Union Wiiarf, in New Haven, every night (Saturdays ex- 
 cepted), and New York every day (Sundays excepted.) 
 
 Time of leaving New Haven is ii 30 P. M., except Sunday. Will 
 leave Sunday night at 1 o'clock, on arrival of Night Express Train 
 from Boston. 
 
 Leave New York, from Pier 26 East River (upper side of Peck 
 Slip), at 3 30 p. M. daily. 
 
 Fare, for Passage and Berth, 75 cents. 
 
 Omnibuses leave the corner of Chapel and State streets each quar- 
 ter hour, from 9 to n P. AL Sunday nights, from 10 to 12. 
 
 Omnibuses will be on the wharf every evening on arrival of the 
 Boat from New York. 
 
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 Newspapers. 
 
 Office of the Daily Morning Journal and Courier , 
 State Sti-eet, No. 238. Yol. 37. 
 
 Office of the New Haven Daily Morning Pallad- 
 turn, 120 Union Street, opposite E. E. Depot 
 Vol. 29. 
 
 Office of the I^ew Raven Daily Evening Eegiater^ 
 259 Chapel Street. Vol. 29. 
 
 Office of the College Courant^ Glebe Building, 
 corner Chapel and Church Streets. Vol. 4. 
 
 Office of Loomis' Musical Journal^ 299 Chapel 
 Street. Vol. 3. 
 
 OFFICE OF THE GERMAN PAPERS. 
 
 The Connecticut Repiiblilcaner^ 120 Orange Street. 
 The Connecticut Beohachter, Chapel Street. 
 The Connecticut Staats Zeitung. 
 
 The Fire Department 
 
 Of this City is under a very thorough and efficient 
 order of things. By the use of Fairchild's Tele- 
 graphic Alarm, a connection with the Head Station 
 and Alarm Bell at the City Hall, has been made 
 with all portions of the City. Immediate notice of 
 fire is thus received and communicated, and the 
 whole force of the Ilepartment can be under way in 
 three minutes. At this time there are in New Haven 
 powerful Engines, fully manned for service, and well 
 supported by Hose and Hook and Ladder depart- 
 
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 ments. Ordinarily tliey soon put out the flames 
 and restore safety to the city. 
 
 THE ALARM TELEGRAPH. 
 
 No. and Location of Boxes, 
 
 No. 2, City Hall, Police Station. 
 
 3, Cor. Howard St. and Whitney Ave. 
 
 4, Cor. Grove and College Sts. 
 
 5, Cor. York and Grove Sts. 
 
 6, No. 3 Engine House, cor. Park and Elm Sts. 
 
 7, Cor. VVhalley Ave. and Orchard St. 
 
 8, Cor. West Chapel and Orchard Sts. 
 
 12, Cor. West Chapel and Howe Sts. 
 
 13, Cor. Chapel and High Sts. 
 
 14, Cor. Park and South Sts. 
 
 15, Cor. Congress Ave, and Daggett St. 
 
 16, Cor. Howard Ave. and Columbus St. 
 
 17, Cor. West Water and Columbus Sts. 
 21, No. I Engine House, Congress Ave. 
 
 23, Custom House Square. 
 
 24, No. I Hose House. George St. 
 
 25, Cor. Churcli and Crown Sts. 
 
 26, Railway Depot, Chapel St. 
 
 31, No. 2 Engine House, Artizan St. 
 
 32, Cor. East Water and Brewery Sts. 
 
 34, No. 2 Hose House, Chestnut St. 
 
 35, Cor. Chapel and Hamilton Sis. 
 
 36, Cor. East and CoUis Sts. 
 
 41, No. 4 Engine House, cor. St. J. and Wallace Sts. 
 
 42, Cor. Grand and Franklin Sts. 
 
 43, Cor. East and Myrtle Sts. 
 45, Cor. State and Pearl Sts. 
 
 51, Cor. Chapel and Orange Sts. 
 
 52, Cor. Orange and Bradley Sts. 
 
 53, Junction State and Olive Sts. 
 
 New Havex abounds in persons of truly inventive 
 character. Of course we cannot mention the multi- 
 tude, but it is a pleasure to speak of Mr. C. O. 
 Crosby, celebrated for his improvement on the fish- 
 hook, and in the manufacture of the needle, etc. ; 
 O. F. Winchester, Ex-Lieut. Governor of the State, 
 for his repeating fire-arms ; J. B. Sargent, and C. B. 
 
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 Bristol, for hardware ; K IT. Andrews, for locks and 
 latches ; John O'Neill, for a self-car coupling, a 
 revolving horse-bit, etc. Mr. O'Neill is a young, un- 
 married man, son of the watch-maker. His mind is 
 instinctively inventive, and he would he a most val- 
 uable assistant in any large manufacturing establish- 
 ment. 
 
 Telegraph OfiSces. 
 
 The Western IJnion Telegeaph Office is in 
 large and well-arranged rooms on Chapel Street, 
 nearly opposite the North entrance of the Depot. 
 Drop in there if you have a message to send to any 
 part of the country, or to Europe. It v/ill meet 
 with instant dispatch. 
 
 The Franklin Telegraph Office is on State 
 Street, near Chapel, on the North side of Chapel, 
 and is prompt in the dispatcli of all messages. At 
 one or the other of these offices you can have your 
 business transacted immediately. They are both 
 near the Depot ; near the Newspaper Offices, and 
 Express house of Adams & Co. 
 
 Adams' Express Co. 
 
 The Office of this celebrated Express Company in 
 New Haven is very near the Telegraph Office. It is 
 situated in the next building East, across Union 
 
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 Street on Chapel Street, having a freight entrance 
 and exit on the rear, by way of Union Street. In 
 the same building is the well-known paint, gilding, 
 glass and paper hanging house of the late firm of 
 Hills & Butler. Near by is one of the old family re- 
 sidences of the late James Brewster^ now occupied 
 by Insurance Agents and Real Estate Brokers. 
 Here also is the Assessor's Office of Internal Reve- 
 nue. And opposite to these we have the large and 
 popular Confectionery of Mr. H. II. Snow ; the Iron 
 Burglar and Fire-proof Safe Office, conducted by 
 Messrs. Thompson ; the Judson buildings, and the 
 Chapel Street Church. Nearly opposite these, in 
 Collins' Block, is the large and attractive Grocery 
 Store of Mr. Edward S. Rowland. 
 
 The City Government 
 Consists of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Council^ 
 
 Mayor — "William FiTcn, Esq. Office in City Hall. 
 
 Aldermen — Rufus G. Russell ; Wilson H. Clark ; 
 Patrick Ward ; Amos F. Beers ; John Egan ; Elias 
 Pierpont. 
 
 Common Council — H. A. Carrington ; "Wm. H. 
 Eno ; Johnson T. Piatt ; Horace P. Dibble ; Lewis 
 Le Bars ; Thompson W. Nugent ; Patrick Burns ; 
 Abraham Krauss ; Daniel T. Bailey ; Jas. Reynolds ; 
 Jacob Mailhouse; Daniel Carroll; Henry H. Bun- 
 nell; Leonard Winship ; Daniel S.Cooper; George 
 A. Butler ; P. 11. O'Brien ; James Reilly, 2d ; Thos. 
 Dunn; Henry F. Andrews; George D. Gower; 
 
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 Stephen R. Smith ; George Blakeman ; George A. 
 Durand. 
 
 CITY CLEEK. 
 
 William E. Downes, Esq., Mayor's Office. 
 William C. Robinson, Becorder. 
 John S. Beach, City Attorney. 
 Henry E. Pardee, Assistant Attorney. 
 Julius Twiss, Cleric of the City CouH. 
 
 The Ex-Mayors of the City now alive are : 
 His Honor Mayor Galpin. 
 " " " Welch. 
 
 " " *' Blackman. 
 
 " " " Tyler, 
 
 " " " Sperry. 
 
 John E. Eaele, Esq., is Solicitor of U. S. Patents. 
 Office— 350 Chapel Street. 
 
 Military Affairs. 
 
 We have room but for a few matters relating to 
 Military Affairs, and these chiefly of New Haven. 
 For fuller statements, see New Haven Directory :— 
 
 Commander-in-Chief— B-is Excellency the Governor of 
 the State, Hon. Maeshaxl Jewell, Hartford. 
 
 Adjutant- General, — Rank, Brigadier-Oeneral — Samuel 
 £. Merwin, Jr., New Haven. 
 
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 Qitartermasier- General, — Rank, Brigadier- General — 
 Leonard A. Dickinson. 
 
 Commissary- General, — Bank, Colonel — James D. Frary, 
 New Britain. 
 
 Paymaster- General, — jRanfc, Colonel — George P. Bissell, 
 Hartford, May 5, 1869. 
 
 Assistant Adjutant- General, — Rank, Captain — Simeon 
 J. Fox, New Haven. 
 
 Aides-de-Camp — Cols. Chas. D. Blum, of NewMilford ; 
 Sabiu L. Sayles, of Killingly ; James F. Preston, of 
 Vernon ; John Tweedy, of Danbury. 
 
 DIVISION. 
 
 Major- General — William H. Eussell, New Haven. 
 
 Assistant Adjuiani-General, — Rank, Lieutenant- Colonel — 
 Francis Wayland, New Haven. 
 
 Division-Inspector, — Rank, Lieutenant- Colonel — F. St. 
 John Lockwood, Norwalk. 
 
 Aids to Major-Ge)wral, — Rank, Major — John C. Day, 
 Hartford ; George H. Larned, New Haven. 
 
 Division Quarter- Master, — Rank, Major — Edward W. 
 Johnson, Norwich. 
 
 Division Commissary, — Rank, Major — Edward H. 
 Townsend, New Haven. 
 
 SECOND BRIGADE. 
 
 Urigadier- General — Stephen "W. Kellogg, "Waterbury 
 Brigade-Inspector, — Rank, Major — Thomas S. Gilbert, 
 
 Derby. 
 
 Assistant Adjutant- General, — Rank, Captain — George 
 
 E. Terry, Waterbury. 
 
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 Brigade Quartermaster, — Bank, Captain — William W. 
 Hart, Madison. 
 
 Brigade Commissary, — Bank, Cajytain — ^Edward M. 
 Neville, Hartford. 
 
 Aid-de-Camp, — Bank, Captain — H. Lynde Harrison, 
 Branford. 
 
 SECOND KEQIMENT. 
 
 Fidd and Staff— Colonel, Greorge A. Basserman, New 
 Haven; Lieut. -Colonel, Edward E. Bradley; Major, 
 Stephen R. Smith ; Surgeon, Evelyn L. Bissell ; Quar- 
 termaster, William A. Hall ; Paymaster, Henry F. Nor- 
 cross ; Chaplain, Charles H. Seibke ; Asst. Surgeon, 
 George R. Shepherd. 
 
 Company A. — Captain, George W. Tucker, Water- 
 bury ; 1st Lieutenant, Augustus L Goodrich ; 2d Lieu- 
 tenant, Lenthel S. Davis. 
 
 Company B. — City Guard — Captain, Frederick Buck- 
 holz, New Haven ; 1st Lieutenant, Frederick Ploger ; 
 2d Lieutenant, Louis Manthe. 
 
 Company C. — Sar afield Q-uard — Captain, Joseph H. 
 Keefe, New Haven ; 1st Lieutenant, John Cunning- 
 ham ; 2d Lieutenant, John J. Flanagan. 
 
 Company D. — Captain, Edwin L. Cook, Waterbury ; 
 1st Lieutenant, James B. Perkins ; 2d Lieutenant, Ben- 
 jamin F. Bronson. 
 
 Company E. — Light Guard — Captain, Russell Thomp- 
 son, Now Haven ; Ist Lieutenant, Willard R. Francis ; 
 2d Lieutenant, Noyes D. Pardee. 
 
 Company F.—New Haven Grays — Captain, Wilbur G. 
 
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 Howarth, New Haven ; 1st Lieutenant, George S. 
 Minor ; 2d Lieutenant, Harry C. Ward. 
 
 IN THE SIXTH REGIMENT. 
 
 Company C. — Montgomery Light Guard — Captain^ 
 Thomas O'Brien, New Haven ; 1st Lieutenant, John J, 
 McMahon ; 2d Lieutenant, James Cahill. 
 
 BELONGINQ TO THE LIGHT AETHiLERT. 
 
 Battery F, (Drilling as Infantry, — National Blues — 
 Captain, Elizur Cook, New Haven ; 1st Lieutenant, 
 Alexander S. Hubbard ; 2d Lieutenant, Henry Dv 
 Phillips. 
 
 German Rifle Co. — Captain, Ploger 
 
 Emmet Guards. 
 
 Wooster Guards. 
 
 2d Gov. Horse Guards — Major, H. P. Hoadley.. 
 
 2d Gov. Foot Guards— Cs^]^t Jacob G. Phile. 
 
MOSES THOMAS, 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER 
 
 IN 
 
 TEA, 
 
 Coffee and Spices, 
 
 285 Chapel Street, 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 Coffee and Spices fresh ffround by our- 
 seti'es eyerjr day. 
 
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 WHOLES.\X,E AND RETAL DEALERS IN 
 
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 We make specialties of and keep the largest Stock 
 in the State of 
 
 Table Cutlery, Poclcet Cutlery, Mccliauics' Tools, 
 Housekeeping Goods), etc. 
 
 Our prices are at the " low water mark." Our Store for 
 the last half century has been known as the Store that 
 kept every thing. A stock of the celebrated SAWS, 
 made by the New Haven Saw Co. , can at all times be 
 found with us. 
 
 J. E. BASSETT & CO., 
 
 236 Chapel Sired, New Haven, 
 
ALPHONSO THILL, 
 
 Merchant Tailor, 
 
 AND 
 
 ^se Olia^ipel Street, 
 
 JVeff^ Haven, Con?i., 
 
 HAS ALWAYS ON HAND THE 
 
 Best Selected and Most Fashionable 
 STOCK OF GOODS 
 
 For Gei\tlemen's Wear in tlxis City. 
 
 AH Orders promptly and satisfactorily ezecuted. 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 All Styles of SHIKTS made to Order. 
 
E. S. SCRANTON & Co., 
 BANKERS, 
 
 No. 89 Orange Street, (near Chapel), 
 
 {Home Insurance Co. Buildittg,') 
 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 Deposits in Currency and Coin received 
 from Firms, Individuals and Corpor- 
 ations, subject to check at sight, and 
 interest allowed on daily balances. 
 
 Certificates of Deposit issued, bear- 
 ing interest payable on demand or 
 after fixed dates. 
 
 Buy and Sell all classes of Govern- 
 ment Securities, Stocks, Bonds, Gold, 
 Silver and Coin Coupons. 
 
 Collections made on all accessible 
 points at lowest rates, with quick re- 
 turns. 
 
 Inland and Foreign Exchange in 
 sums to suit. 
 
 Letters of Credit procured on Mes- 
 srs. John Munroe & Co., Paris, avail- 
 able in all the principal cities of Eu- 
 i-ope. 
 
 Orders by mail or telegraph promptly 
 executed. 
 
 ISdwartl S. Scranton. Sereno H. Scranton. 
 
Iffice of §eo. f . Jester, 
 
 YALE NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, 
 Cor, Chapel a7id Stale Sis., 
 
 NEW HATEN, CONN. 
 
 Fire Insurance. 
 Life Insurance. 
 Marine Insurance. 
 Accident Insurance, 
 
 TO ALL POINTS, 
 Sovitli aixcl ^V est. 
 
 yr^petn and Oatlf@rcita 
 
 TICIiETS. 
 
 FOREIGN EXCHANGE. 
 
 REAL ESTATE. 
 
Savin Rock House, 
 
 WEST HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 J. H. & T. H. DAWE & CO., Proprietors. 
 
 This popular place of resort, situate on 
 Long Island Sound, about four miles from 
 New Haven, and accessible by pleasant 
 roads, is in readiness for the reception of 
 guests. 
 
 No place on the Sound combines in a 
 greater degree the requisites for health and 
 comfort than this. The grounds have been 
 remodeled and splendidly laid out; and as 
 regards the appointments of the House, it is 
 the intention of the proprietors that they 
 shall be strictly first-class in every respect. 
 
 The beach for bathing is the finest on the 
 Sound ; good fishing grounds ; elegant 
 drives and walks ; sailing and boating. 
 
 Horse cars run regularly (every tifteeu 
 minutes) during the season, between New 
 Haven and the " Savin Eock House." 
 
 a?er ms: 
 
 $3.00 Per Day, or $15.00 per "Week. Extra for 
 clioice of Rooms. 
 
 All letters addressed to Mv. Samuel 
 H. Crane, will receive prompt attention. 
 
BY THE CA^TIOO! 
 
 CO A L !~CO A L !! 
 
 Lehigh, Scranton, Lackawana, Franklin & Cumberland 
 Always on hand, ready for immediate shipment, by 
 
 S. R. SMITH cfe CO., 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in all the best kinds of Anthracite and 
 
 Bituminous COALS. 
 
 I»rincipal 0ffioe-a03 State ©tx'eet. 
 
 P.p AvrH Dpp-.rKQ • i ^^^^^ Nos. 147 to 157 East Street. 
 Branch Offices . | y^^^ ^^ ^^^ Long Wharf. 
 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 Our facilities for shipping Coal to all accessible points by the various 
 "Railways centering at New Haven, are unsurpassed by any other 
 jrm in New England. We pledge to purchasers by the CARGO or 
 CAR LOAD, our personal attention to all shipments. 
 
 J^^Orders by mail or telegraph promptly filled, at the lowest 
 market rates. 
 
 tt¥lS, 
 
 Refrigerators, and Tinware, 
 
 AT 
 
 CUDWORTH'S. 
 
 The Largest Assortment of 
 
 SiTCHEN fluRNISHING loODS 
 
 IN THE CITY. 
 
 JESSE CUDWORTH, JR., 
 
 313 CHAPSL STREET NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
LIWREM, BRADLEY & PARDEE, 
 
 MANUFACTURERS Or 
 
 CARRIAGES 
 
 OP 
 
 EVERY DESCKIPTION, 
 ^^s. 6/ to 67 CHATJ^Z ST:EBU2, 
 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 ALWAYS ON HAND: 
 
 THE 
 AND 
 
 GREATEST VARIETY 
 
 OF 
 
 Fii\islied Carriages 
 
 That can be found in any place in the World ! 
 PROPRIETORS: 
 
 JOHX R. I4AWRE.VCE & CO., 558 Broadway, 
 
 Ne-w York. 
 COAN «Sf TEIVBROEKE, 67 and 69 Adams Street, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 John R. Lawrknch. Wm. H. Bradley. Wm. B. Pardes. 
 
SEA VIEW HOUSE, 
 
 SHEEMAN EUSSELL, - - Proprietor. 
 THIS MW AND SPLENDID HOUSE, 
 
 JUST OPENED, 
 
 AND, FOR A 
 
 QUIET SUMMER RESORT 
 
 AND 
 
 special A^ccommoclatioiis 
 
 FOR 
 
 o d^ Jm^ Jo Mi& JL tk ' 
 
 ARE PROVIDED, AND] 
 
 Bathing Grounds Excellei\t. 
 
 H'ofse Cars run to and from New 
 Haven every fifteen minutes. 
 
 Charges ^XodLex'ate. 
 
Wholesale Fruit Store. 
 
 FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, 
 
 Of Every Description ; 
 
 PICKLES, JELLIES, SARDINES, 
 
 Wilmington, Virginia, and African Pea Nuts, 
 
 and Nuts of all kinds ; 
 
 In fact^ the Largest Stock of Goods in our line 
 
 kept by any House in the State. 
 
 A. J. beehs «fe CO., 
 
 184 State Street, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 Charles H. Oaks, 
 
 DEAI.ER IN 
 
 raiLfTROCERIES, 
 
 Fine Teas, Coffees, 
 
 Wholesale and Retail^ 
 
 46 & 50 Church St,, Cor. Crown, 
 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
H. H. BUNNELL, 
 
 B^NKEI\ & Bl\OKER, 
 
 YALE NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, 
 
 U. S. Securities, State, Town, City, Railroad Bonds, 
 Stocks, Gold and Silver bought and sold on Commis- 
 sion, Certificates of Deposit issued, bearing Interest, 
 Interest on Deposits. 
 
 CARPET WAREHOUSE. 
 
 390 Chapel Street, 
 
 Ne^w Haven, Ooixn. 
 
 It^jCS! J& O). o Jit A is «L^ 
 
 Dealer in every thing to be found in a first-class 
 CARPET WAREHOUSE. 
 
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 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 Annual Stateinent~Jan. 1, 1869. 
 
 A.ssets : 
 
 United States Bonds, at par $136,100 00 
 
 National Bank Stock, at par 56,033 00 
 
 Bonds of the State of Connecticut, at par. 12,000 00 
 
 Eailroad Bonds and Stock, at par 9,500 00 
 
 Mortgages on Keal Estate 169,600 00 
 
 Loans secured by collaterals 68,915 00 
 
 Agency balances (mostly now paid) 17,580 69 
 
 Real Estate 399 95 
 
 Furniture, &c. , acc't 1, 503 85 
 
 Cash in Treasury 3,905 85 
 
 All other assets not before included 5,624 62 
 
 Deferred Premiums maturing 17,500 00 
 
 Accrued Interest on Loans 3,132 14 
 
 Gross Assets $501,927 63 
 
 — Amount at Eisk, $2,500,000. Per centage of assets 
 on gross Bisks, 20 per cent., which is the largest per 
 centage acquired by any Company in the United 
 States. 
 
 Premiums reduced and payable in cash. No Policies 
 issued except at the Home OflBce — No. 1, Adelphi 
 
 BurLDING. 
 
 Persons desiring Insurance, can apply by mail. 
 
 BENJAMIN NOYES, Pkesident. 
 EicHAKD F. Lyon, Secretary. 
 
 Trustees : — John B. Eobertson, Willis Bristol, Benja- 
 min Noyes, James Punderford, Charles L. Chaplain, 
 Cyrus P. Smith, Jesse W. Benedict, Cornelius S. Bush- 
 nell, and Lucius E. Finch. 
 
SUPERIOR 
 
 CONFECTIONEI^Y, 
 
 AT 
 
 H. H. Snow's Emporium, 
 
 No. 194 CHAPEL street; 
 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 WM. A. STODDARD, 
 
 DEAX,EB IN 
 
 IrUIT and loNFECTIONERY, 
 
 g; 
 
 Cor. Church and Chapel Streets. 
 
 ^W^ Choice Con/ectioftery, Foreign and Domestic F^-uits. Also, 
 Family and Fancy Bakery. — Families and Parties supplied with 
 Cakes, Pies, Fruits, Nttts, d^c. Dr. Irish's Medicated Ottawa 
 Beer. Soda Water, with all th^ variety 0/ Pure Syrups. 
 
 C. COWLES & Co., 
 
 Manufacturers o_/ and Dealers in 
 NORWAY BOLTS, COACH LAMPS, 
 
 l^rimminjgs for ^llulditn's aarrmrjcs, 
 
 AND STOVE ORNAMENTS. 
 
 Nos. 47 and 49 Orange Street, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 Patent Leather, Enamel Cloth, Malleable Iron Axles, Springs, 
 Axle Clips, Shackles, Clamps, Slat Irons, Fifth Wheels, Lining 
 Nails, Curtain Frames, &=c. Jobbing in Sheet Metals. 
 
 Wood 'W ork—S ilrer, Brass, and Electro, Plating. 
 J. N. Babcock, Prest. R, P. Cowles, Sec'y. H. P. Dibble, Treas, 
 
" The Truthwill bear Repeating." 
 EDWARD B. BOWl & CO., 
 
 COAL DEALERS, 
 
 88 STATE STREET, AND 143 LONG MTHARP, 
 
 NEW HA VEN, Conn. 
 orrEK TO 
 
 FAMILIES AND CONSUMERS OF COAL 
 
 The Choicest Varieties of Coals Mined, 
 
 AT 
 
 LESS PRICES, 
 
 As a Ruhy 
 
 THAN THE SAME QUALITIES CAN BE PUECHASED OP 
 
 Any other Dealers in New Haven. 
 
 THEY MAKE IT FOK THE 
 
 ADVANTAGE OF BUYEBS 
 
 TO TRADE AT THEIR OFFICES, 
 
 AND 
 
 They Guarantee Satisfaction in all Cases 
 
 OB 
 
 BEFUND THE MONEY. 
 
 Belonging to no Combination, their Prices are gov- 
 erned only by those prevailing at the mines and 
 shipping ports. 
 
 Persons desiring JFirst Qualify of Coal, well 
 
 screened, and delivered dry from under cover, at low 
 prices, can obtain it, and will do well to call as above. 
 
Go Mo LOOmSj 
 
 299 C/iapel and /OO Orange Street^ 
 
 Is the sole Agent in New Haven and vicinity for the 
 
 Messrs. Chickering & Son's and Haines Bro. 
 
 which are not only the best but the cheapest Pianos 
 made in this country or the world ; and our plan of 
 Belling PIANOS, ORGANS, and MELODEONS, upon 
 instalments, has been the means of placing within 
 the homes of many, a first-class instrument, and of 
 meeting the strong desire of hundreds, we may say, 
 to own a good Piano. 
 
 j^- P. s. -®a 
 
 Tl:\e Musical Jouri\al, 
 
 Wliich will commence its Third Volume in August, we 
 are happy to say has lived through its infancy, and is 
 now coming fast up to the present demand of the age 
 for a faithful Musical Paper. We have a large sub- 
 scription list, which is proof to us that we have many 
 friends. Before the end of the Third Volume, we 
 hope to have at least 
 
 sooo 
 
 paid up Subscribers. Price $1 per Year ; 10 cts. pr. copy. 
 Specimen copies sent free on application. 
 
life Snsttrana fompaug. 
 
 Assets over $21,000,000. 
 
 This Company lias Insured more liives tliau any 
 otlier Company in tlie "World ! 
 
 It has no stockholders to absorb the profits, but all 
 the earnings are divided among the policj^-holders, 
 •who have received already over 5,000,000 in dividends 
 (besides the insurance). The Company, after paying 
 over $8,000,000 in losses, has $154: of assets for every 
 $100 of liabiUties. 
 
 Persons insuring in this Company on the new tables, 
 can draw a cash dividend annually after the fii'st pay- 
 ment, or increase their policies without increased cost. 
 Whereas its income from its assets has more than paid 
 its losses for the past nine years, it can of course pro- 
 duce insurance at much less cost than those companies 
 who have yet to create their business, and wait for 
 accumulations. 
 
 Please call at corner of Chapel and State streets for 
 further information. 
 
 JOHN G. NORTH & CO., 
 
 General Agents, 
 
TO THE 
 
 Practical Departm't of Yale College, 
 
 AT 
 
 ■4:54: 02i.6i:pel Street, 
 
 IS THE 
 
 Gastronomical Department, 
 
 M-HERE YOU \STXIi FIND 
 
 Choice imported and domestic Fruits, Nuts, Cigars, 
 and Meerschaum Goods. 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 Oysters, Ham, Eggs, Sandwiches, Coifee, Tea, &c. 
 
 The Intellectual Department, 
 
 Al J^o. A52 C?iapel St., 
 
 Is well stocked with College Text Books, College Songs, 
 and all College Publications, Daily Papers, Weekly 
 and Monthly Periodicals, Base Ball Goods, Stationery, 
 Cutlerj'', Pocket Books, etc. 
 
 THE VELOCIPEDE MUSCLE-DEVELOPING DEPARTMENT 
 
 Is at 96 Crown Street, Music Hall Building, 
 
 AND CONTAINS 
 
 Monod, Wood, Pickering, Pearsall, Demarest, and 
 other first-class Bicycles. 
 JSctc/i Department open at all hours of the day and evening. 
 Eespectfully, 
 
 GEO. C. HOADLEY, 
 
 Opposite tlie Colleges, New Haven. 
 
AT 
 
 SOQ 01aa.:p>el 3treet- 
 
 AliSO, 
 
 §0mm0n 1001111x0 Skss^s, 
 AT 
 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 N. W. MERWIN, 
 
 WHOLESALE DEALER IN 
 
 GRAIN MEAL, 
 
 Feed, &c. 
 
 100 and 102 State Street, cor. George, 
 
 J^eh^ Hay 671 J Conn, 
 
T. P. MER WIN & CO., 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 FRENCH, GERIVIAN, ENGLISH, ITALIAN, 
 AND AMERICAN 
 
 BRY ۩OBg, 
 
 Shawls, Gloves, Hosiery, Embroideries, and 
 
 ALEXANDRE'S KIDS. 
 QQl c^ 2Q3 01:La.:pel St., 
 
 NEIV HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 HENRY PLUMB, 
 
 WHOLESALE AND EETAIL BEALEE IN 
 
 RENCH Embroideries, §aces, 
 
 AND "WHITE GOODS. 
 Cloak, MantiHa and Dress Trimmings, 
 
 AND NOTIONS OF ALL KINDS. 
 ■Worsteds, (^lietlancl TV^ool, Hosiery, 
 
 OLOVEJS ji^ivi> m:itts. 
 318 Chapel Street New Haven f Conn, 
 
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ESTABLISHED JAN. 1836. 
 
 FANCY ARTICLES, CHINA VASES, 
 
 TOILET SETS, CHAMBER SETS, 
 
 SMOKING SETS, COFFEES, &c. «fcc. 
 
 H. N. Whittelsey & Co., 
 
 305 Chapel Street, 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 Crockery^ Ctiaasi 
 
 GLASSWARE, 
 
 SILVER PLATED WARE, CUTLERY, 
 
 Kerosene Lamps, Oliandeliers, &c. 
 
 GLASS FRUIT JARS, 
 
 Common White and Yellow Baking Ware, 
 
 Keeosene Chandeliebs and Trimmings, of the 
 most recent and approved styles, 
 always oflfered. 
 
 Our selections are from the first houses in New 
 York and in Europe. Our Stock, therefore, stands 
 unrivaled. 
 
 ^S^ We make a specialty of furnishing and refitting 
 Hotels, Restaurants, &c. , on the most favorable terms. 
 
Benjamin & Ford, 
 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 
 Of the most approved and perfect manufacture. 
 
 INE f EWELRY, § ILVER ^ARE, 
 
 &c., for Bridal Presents, in unequaled fine and 
 showy styles. 
 
 Knives, Forks, and Spoons, 
 
 The pure article, stamped, and guaranteed 
 standard coin. 
 
 Mi> X M is? S 5 
 
 Constantly on hand, and made to order. 
 
 For latest styles, exceeding variety, quality and 
 price of Goods, we are bound to excel. 
 
 .^^"Watches, Chronometkbs and Jewelby Repaired 
 with utmost care. 
 
Weed Sewing Macliiiie Office, 
 
 317 and 319 Chapel St,, 
 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 f HE ^EED -f EWING ^ACHINE, 
 
 For Duratilitj, Simplicity, Workmanship, Ease of 
 
 Running, Adaptability to different kinds of 
 
 Work, and Beauty of Stitch, is 
 
 Over Two T/iOKsand of these Machines have 
 been sold in this vicinity, and the sales are increasing 
 every month, which sho%vs they are appreciated. 
 
 IS WARRANTED TO GIVE PERFECT SATISFACTION. 
 
 The Purchaser can procure a Machine by 
 
 Paying a sii\.all Ariaoui\t eacl\ n\or\tli 
 
 until paid for. 
 
 A full line of Machine Twist, Linen and 
 Cotton Threads, Machine Oil, 
 
 AND 
 
 General SEWING MACHINE EINDINGS 
 
 CONSTANTLY ON HAND. 
 
 We are at all times pleased to exhibit our Ma- 
 chines and their xoorking. 
 
 J. W*OSB0BN, 
 
 Agent* 
 
BIMTISTET! 
 
 E. STRONG, 
 
 Corner Chapel and College Streets, 
 
 NE-Wr HAVEN, CONN., 
 
 Has just received the largest and best Stock of 
 
 ever brought to ,this city, and is prepared to insert 
 them at very low prices. 
 All our Teeth are carefully selected, and are war- 
 ranted to be of the very best quality — Strong, Life-like 
 and Handsome. Our very large stock of Teeth, em- 
 bracing all sizes, forms, shades, etc., enables us to 
 
 Match tixe Natural Teeth exactly. 
 
 All requiring Artificial Teeth, are invited to come 
 and examine specimens of our work, and look over our 
 immense stock of Teeth, just received from the Manu- 
 factory. 
 
 as usual, without the least pain, by the aid of the 
 Nitrous Oxide, or Laughing Gas, made perfectly pure 
 and fresh every day. 
 
 Special attention paid to buildino out and eestorino 
 
 BROKEN TEETH 
 
 to their former shape and usefulness ; also, perma- 
 nently cures the worst cases of Ulcerated Teeth. 
 
A. Walker & Co., 
 
 Wincio^;?^ IDeoora^tioias, 
 
 PIER GLASSES. 
 No. 85 Church St., NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 H. A. & L H. GRAY, 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 NEW AND SECOND-HAND 
 
 FUEJSriTURE, 
 
 House Furrxislxing Goods, etc. 
 73 Church St., NEW HAVEN, CONN . 
 
 M. & T. SAULT COMPANY, 
 
 MANUFACTUKEES OF 
 
 fARINE & -f TATIONARY ^NGINES, 
 
 ROLLIl eUBBER MILL WORK, 
 
 Castings, Gearing, 
 
 SHAFTING, HANOERS, 
 
 Pulleys, and Machinery of every description. 
 
 ALSO, MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 SAULT'S FRICTIONLESS SLIDE VAIiVES for 
 
 Stationary <fc Locomotiv© Engines* 
 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
LAKE, BROWNING & CO., 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 T QO a 
 
 AND MANUFACTUKERS OF 
 
 255 Chapel St., JST^^W IlA.r£:j^, Co?29i, 
 
 Wholesale Dealers in and Shippers of all kinds of 
 
 FEESH FISH, LOBSTERS, CLAMS, &c., 
 
 168 and 169 Long Wharf, 
 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 Chas. Hyde. E. W. Hjbbakt. 
 
 Retail Market, No. 5 Church St., 
 CHAS. HYDE. 
 
 ^USIC AND §TATIONERY. 
 
 ^34 Chape] St. 
 
 AKE FULLY SUPPLIED WITH EVEEY DESCRIPTION OF 
 
 STA.TI01VEI1Y OOOOS, 
 
 Elegant Articles for Presents, 
 PORTABLE DESKS, GOLD PENS, ETC. 
 
 Their stock of Sheet Music, Music Books and Musi- 
 cal Merchandize is not surpassed by 
 
 any in the State. 
 
 IN their music rooms can be found 
 
 SUPERIOR PIANOS, CABINET ORGANS* 
 
 And every other Instrument. 
 
 On their second floor they have a fine Hall for Musical Soirees, for 
 the Exhibition of Instruments, and the musical convenience of their 
 friends and customers in general. The citizens of New Haven are 
 invited to call and see their new rooms and accommodations. 
 
E. Knight Sperry^ 
 
 AOf Chajpely Cor. Jliffh Sis,y 
 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN,, 
 I>ealer in. 
 
 CHOICE 
 
 FAMILY GEOCERIES, 
 
 MEAT ^ FISHo 
 
 ALSO IJV 
 
 FARi^ERS' PRODUCE. 
 
 FLOUR. 
 
 Tlie 01ieai3est i>lace to "buy 
 
 Clubs Furnislied at Lowest Rates. 
 
CHARLES BOSTWICK, 
 
 31!aiiixfactu.x'er of and. Dcalei* in 
 
 SADDLES, 
 
 Trunks, Traveling Bags, 
 
 tl Church Street {ojyposite JPost Office), 
 NEW HAYEN, CONN. 
 
 PUNDERSON, CrISAND & Co., 
 
 Divight Building, 221 Chapel, Cor. State St., 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 BOOK, JOB, AND PLATE 
 
 PRINTEES. 
 
 Portraits, Views, Plans, Books, Pamphlets, Cata- 
 logues, Show Cards, Manufacturers' Labels, Circulars, 
 Bill and Letter Heads, Certificates, Policies ; Business, 
 Professional, Wedding and Visiting Cards ; Drafts, 
 Checks, Notes, Bonds, Maps, etc. etc., executed in the 
 best manner, and on reasonable terms. 
 
 L, S. PuNDEESON. E. Ckisand. E. Eobbins 
 
ROBERT VEITCII, 
 Seedsman and Florist, 
 
 428 Chapel Strest (opposite the State House,) 
 JVe>i^ IIaye?i, Conn, 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 ¥©f©tafe[© and FK^weir 
 
 SEEDS, 
 
 0±* Evci-y I>escrii>tion. 
 
 Greenhouse and Stone Plants, Verbenas, and all 
 leading varieties of Bedding Plants. 
 
 Tuberoses, Gladiola, Hyacinths, Tulips, Crocus 
 and other Bulbs. 
 
 Boquets, Cut Flowers, Wreaths, Crosses, etc. 
 
 Wire Hanging Baskets, Rustic Baskets, Chairs, and 
 Stands. 
 
 The Corner Hat Store, 
 
 226 Chapel^ cornier of State Street, 
 
 Is considered by good judges to be the best place in 
 New Haven to buy 
 
 Sills: Hats, ft^oft Hats,, 
 
 And Cloth CAPS, 
 
 With the fullest assortment of Ladies' and Misses' Fine 
 and Fancy FUHS, 
 
 BUFFALO AND FANCY LAP ROBES, 
 
 Driving and Dress GLOVES. 
 
 In fact, everything in the HAT, CAP, and FUK line, 
 
 at the lowest living prices ! 
 
 C. A. BRADLEY, 
 Late Bradley & Peatt, 
 First ZPi'eiiaixim. Hatters <fc Fvn^riers. 
 
SHELLY & LYON, 
 
 Tin and Sheet Iron Workers, 
 
 AND DEALERS IX 
 
 Stoves, Ranges, Hot Air Furnaces, Hollow 
 
 Ware, Tin Ware, Wooden Ware, 
 
 Tubs, Pails, Brushes, Brooms, 
 
 Eefrigerators, etc., etc. 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 TIN ROOFINa, STEAM PIPING, AND JOBEINa OP 
 
 ALL KINDS DONE IN THE BES MANNER. 
 
 4.84. Chapel Street, Co?^?ier of Hig/i, 
 
 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 G. Shelly. A. S. Lton. 
 
 "^"^^"MTT So SPECECj 
 
 CHAPEL St., NEW HAVEN, Conn. 
 
 PllOTOGRlPlilC EmBLMMEXT 
 
 loV THE CITY. 
 
 PnoTOGRAPHic Views of everything of interest about 
 New Haven. Card Stereoscopic Views, and the large 
 sizes to frame. 
 
 Oil Paintings, Life-size Photographs ; copies from 
 old pictures of deceased persons, enlarged and finished 
 in the finest style ; Cartes de Visite, and everything 
 pertaining to the art. 
 
WILLIAM FRANKLIN, 
 
 Merchant Tailor, 
 
 93 Orange Street, 
 
 Home Insxirance JSuilding^y 
 
 WHEEE YOU CAN GET A 
 
 Good Suit of Clothes at a reasonable Price. 
 
 Call when you are in need. 
 
 General Engraver, Die Sinker, and 
 Letter Cutter, 
 
 Furnishes to order — Die Work, Engraving, Steel Stamps, Burning 
 
 Brands, Checks, Metallic Labels, Steel Letters and Figures, 
 
 Seals, and Seal Presses, Ink, Ribbon, and Elastic Hand 
 
 Stamps, Stencil Marking Plates, Stencil Paste and 
 
 Brushes, Name Plates and Type for Clothing, with 
 
 Indelible Ink, Pattern Letters, Tags, Rings, 
 
 Snaps, etc. etc., at 
 
 125 Union Street, New Haven, Conn. 
 Til E CUB APE ST B O OKSTOIIE. 
 
 PECK &^COAN, 
 
 346 CHAPEL ST., NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 SCHOOL BOOKS, BLANK BOOKS, 
 Miscellaneous Books and. Stationery, 
 
 The largest Stock and lowest Prices. 
 
A. BEECHER & SONS, 
 
 Manufacturers of and Wholesale Dealers in 
 
 Superior Friction, TelegrapU and Klectric 
 
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 All Standard Lengths of Bound and Square 
 And the most improved kinds of 
 
 Match-making Machinery. 
 
 Also, Sole Manufacturers of the celebrated 
 
 BEECHEB BASKET CO. 
 
 FACTORIES AND GENEEAL OFFICl] : 
 
 fiew York Office 141 Maiden Lane. 
 
 A. Beecher. E. B. Beechee. L. W. Beechek. 
 
Lockwood's City Hall 
 
 mW6 ROOMS, 
 
 FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 
 CORNER CHURCH AND COURT STREETS, NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 Oake, Ice Oream, 
 
 ICES, 
 
 THE LADIES' ©EPAIITMEI^T 
 
 Nice and complete in every respect. 
 
 7^" Caterer for Parties; Weddings, Parties, and 
 Families supplied with Ice Cream, Ices, Cake, etc. , by 
 giving due notice. China, Glass, and Silver Ware 
 loaned. Also, attentive Waiters furnished. 
 
 C. F. LOOKWOOD, 
 
 151 and 155 CTiurch Street^ corner Court St, 
 
oa^k: hill 
 
 adies^ Sesniaary^ 
 
 WEST HAVEN, CONN, 
 
 Mks. S. E. W. ATWATEE, Principal. 
 
 Thi3 Institution, having completed 22 years of suc- 
 cessful progress, is still open, under its founder and 
 continued Principal. It is located in a beautiful and 
 retired village on the New York and New Haven Rail- 
 road, two and a half miles from New Haven, with which 
 it is connected by a horse railroad. The Seminary is 
 only a pleasant walk from Long Island Sound, where 
 Pupils are furnished with a private Bathing House. 
 
 Expenses.— Board and Tuition, $270 per year ; $95 
 the first term, $90 the second, and $85 the third — in 
 advance. This sum covers all except extras, as specified. 
 
 Common English Branches, for Day Scholars $7 00 
 
 Higher English Branches, including Latin 9 00 
 
 EXTRA CHARGES : 
 
 French and German, each, per term 8 00 
 
 Instrumental Music, 24 Lessons $15.00 to 20 00 
 
 Use of Piano, one hour per day, per term 2 00 
 
 Seat in Church, per term 2 00 
 
 Washing, per dozen 75 
 
 Drawing, Painting, and Vocal Music, according to the 
 price of Teachers. 
 
 Each Lady will furnish her own Towels, Table Napkins, 
 Napkin Ring, one pair Sheets and Pillow Slips, one Blanket, 
 one Outside Spread for Bed. A Dress suitable for Gymnas- 
 tic practice is required. 
 
 Daughters of Clergymen, and those in limited circumstan- 
 ces, who wish to prepare for Teaching, will be received at a 
 reduced price. 
 
 The Year is divided into three Terms. The Winter Term 
 commences January 2d. and closes April 1st. The Summer 
 Term commences April 22d, and closes July 14th. The Fall 
 Term commences September 16th, and closes December 24th. 
 The full course of Study, embracing both the Primary and 
 Higher Branches, occupies four years. To those who honor- 
 ably complete it. Diplomas are awarded. 
 
 No deduction made for absence or withdrawal before the 
 close of the Term, except in case of protracted illness. 
 The number of Boarding Pupils is limited. 
 For further particulars, address the Principal. 
 
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