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New DEaven Journal Courier
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VOL. CLXIX, NO. 33
AN INDEPENDENT PAPER
AND NEW HAVEN TIMES
NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1935
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE THREE CENTS
HE NEW HAVEN JOURNAL- COURIER is the oldest newspaper now being published in New Haven, although it is not the first. The first in New Haven and New Haven County was the Connecticut Gazette, a weekly published by J. Parker and Com- pany in 1755 and suspended in April, 1764. James Parker was a printer and a friend of Benjamin Franklin and the paper he put out was first published "near the hay market". Mr. Parker was not only the first "journalist" in New Haven, but the first postmaster.
After Parker had suspended the Gazette, it was re- vived by Franklin's nephew Benjamin Mecom, who had had a precarious career in various printshops along the Atlantic coast after an apprenticeship with Franklin at Philadelphia. Mecom operated the Gazette until 1768. "The printer of this paper now informs the public that he is preparing to remove from this place with his family; and that he chiefly depends on his debtors for something to pay the expense", he wrote in the last issue, that of February 19, 1768. Moreover, "Since he now discontinues this Gazette, it may not be improper to say that all persons may be supplied with a newspaper by Messrs. Thomas and Samuel Green . . "
JOURNAL ESTABLISHED
Four months before this second death of the Gazette, the Connecticut Journal and Nero-Hlaven Post-Boy had been established October 23, 1767, by the brothers Green, natives of Boston. A cut of a post man on horseback copied from the Boston Post- Boy, and rather badly engraved, divided the title. Printed on a "pot sheet" folio, three columns to the page, the first issue of the Journal is now preserved in the rare book room of Yale's Sterling Memorial Library, a photostatic copy being available in the newspaper stacks. In 1775 the subtitle New-Haven Post-Boy was dropped. Among the big stories of this period were those on the stamp act agitation, and the opening of the Revolutionary War.
The New Haven which subscribed to the new Journal was a village of some 3,500 inhabitants, slightly larger than present-day Guilford. Its people were still loyal subjects of King George III with no serious thought of the revolution which was soon to make them independent. Rumblings of discontent there had been, to be sure, but New Haveners could hardly foresee that the short space of less than a *[200]:
decade would bring the Declaration of Independence and the Battle of Lexington. Travel was by horse and stage-coach which seems very primitive to us nowadays and yet except for the internal combustion engine was not so much different from our own travel by motorbus. Much the same roadways were taken, as a matter of fact, as is indicated by the modern Boston post road which follows roughly the old stage route along the east shore.
INVENTIONS TO COME
Fulton and the steamboat were, however, far in the future and water travel was largely by sail packet, especially between New Haven and New York. The locomotive was unknown, and so was the cotton gin, the rubber vulcanization process and the telephone- all three to be launched within the next century by New Haven residents. The linotype and rotary press, the automatic typewriter for the transmission of wire news, all the marvellous instruments which make the modern newspaper were alike unknown. News from congress and the war in the Revolutionary period was printed when a week to two weeks old. Reports from the old world were still "late" if read within two or three months by the ultimate con- sumer.
Advertisements were an important feature of the eighteenth century Journal, as they are of its modern descendant. Such notices were numerous, some with headings like this: "Slaves for Sale"; "Slaves Wanted for Purchase"; one read, "For sale, a young lusty and very likely negro wench that can cook, wash and spin either flax or wool." Another sought the de- livery of juice pressed from corn stalks for distillation into rum, the terms to be agreed upon when the advertisement was answered. Pierpont Edwards, administrator of Benedict Arnold's estate, asked that all monies be paid which were owed the one-time New Haven soldier "before he joined the enemy".
Among the news accounts of the early months of the year 1775 was one describing the presentation of "130 run of well spun yarn to the Rev. Mr. Street, pastor of the Congregational Church in East Haven, from the ladies of the parish in imitation of the generous and laudable example of the societies in New Haven". The presentation assembly later took refreshments which included coffee, and of course excluded tea, this "baneful, exotic herb" being forbidden under the colonial boycott of the British commerce in the leaf. There were, too, letters to
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NEW HAVEN JOURNAL-COURIER
1935
THE
CONNECTICUT
FOURNAL; r.
AND NEW . HAVEN POST- BOY.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23) 1767. [No. 1.]
To the Inhabitants of the Colony the States. General, the States of Holland,
of ConneDieut, efpecially in the Town of New Haven.
MY. RESPECTED FRIENDS ..
T. "HE Lind Treatment'I have received, during a Residence of Seven or Light Viars in this Place. Las particularly endeared it 10. m .- And though I nuas intated, from the Profprat of Affairs, Two or Three Years ago, to change my Si- mation, cubieb - I did with heladance, it was with fingular Plaafure and Gratitude, toas I have received repeated - Solicitations "and Encouragement: 10 return to a biloved Acquaintance and Neighbourhood, the Su- poration from which, my Heart has often
Jeh qwith feryare. Regret s-no!withflanding committed to Wooditreet compter. It the Kindness stimy left Neighbours, which appeared by the evidence of the youngelt I acknowledge huith fincare Tearkfalaejs, girl, who is about 14 years of age, (the and fer which I Boll ever make ibe mon eldeft not being able to, fpeak) that their gratifu! Returni in mig" Power .-- This Paper will bepublished at the mode- and horfewhip them, without any real Felt Pritz ef Six-Shillings, per Annum ; caufe ) that ber mamer bever did it, but Acunifiments of not more Length than knew of his wife's cruel behavior to them; Triath, will be inferred Three Weeks, for that on Sundays they were locked up in Three. Shillings, and Six pence, bach. I mme a dark place under the faire in the cellar, afterwards, and longer Advertisements in Protection.
A: 1 barne no Reafin io doubt the Kind- weis of my Friends, in encouraging this my Second Settlement among them, fo I hope I the had received by whipping were to sistri not affure them, that I fall ufe my beft Endeavours 'to pleafe and oblige thexi, and continue that Gesd Will sonvard me, and my Family, which I have already been fo of her body was free ; and that her head happy as to experience.
THOMAS GREEN. of her fpeech, the Surgeon was of opi- Bly the Mary and Elizabeth, Capt. Sparks, had received in the glands of her neck. arrived at Philadelphia from London, , The youngeft girl is almoft reduced to a we have the following Advices, viz. HAG UE, July 31. ing fpectacle : it is thought the eldeft THE Prince of Orange arrived cannot recover ; they were both fent to here Wedrefday fant in theAf- St. Bartholomew's hofpital. This affair ternoon, ; in perfect health. was difcovered by a journey-man Baker His Serene Highnefs was wel, who ufed to hear the cries of the poor comed into town with the fite- girls. It was likewife depofed, that the y-ing of cannon, ringing of bells, and dif- faid perfons had made a practice of tak- " playing of colours from the fleeples, and ing apprentices, but it was not known "in.all the Arcets. The next morning he what become of them, it being pretended was complimented by Deputations from that they were fent into the country.
is not a temporary nomination ; and it is thought to be a circumflance that will prove highly agreeable to the Irish In general, his Lordfhip having evinced hir .- felf, on ferveral occafions, to b. an ab's Statefinan, a good Soldier, a cunvilive Orator, on excellent Writer, a diftinguift- ed Patriot, and (of all the mont valuable) an honest Man.
Auguft 11. Yefterday Monsieur Du rand, who is charged with the affairs of the French' court, in the abfence of the Count de Guerchy, had a long conference with the Right fion. the Ent of Shei- burne, on the jubje&t of fome difpatches received from bis court.
Letters received a: Lisbon, fiom ti - Bay of All Saints, mention, that cleven . men of war of the line, and frigates, wer building, and in fuch forwardnets, :bac fome world be ready to fail for Europe, by the return of next ficta.
By a letter from on board his Majefl y's Thip the Carcafs, at Port Egmont, in the ifland of Faulkland, in South-Sens, in the lat. of ; * : so footh, about 100 leagues to the northward of Cape-Horn, we. leain. that ifland is about 40 miles long, an-t' has not one tree of any kind, nor any beatts but foxes. That there are fea- lions in great plenty, two or three times .as big as cart hoffes in England, which, when killed, produce very good oil, which is buint in the room of candles. That nion, was occafioned. by fome hurt. the there are wild geefe in great plenty, and very good, with all kinds of wild fowl. and great plenty of fine fifn. That m fkeleton, much wounded, and is a fhock- the egg fealon they gather upwards of 2500 per day, and they are ferved cat ac ten a man per dav ; each egg weighs nine ounces,. The French have a very delight - ful harbour to the callward ofthe ifland, about 35 leagnes ; they have about 50 houfes, and about zoo men befides wo- men and children.
This day the Right Hon. Loid Town- fiend will have the honour to kifs his Nsjefly's hand, on being appointed Loid Lieutenant of Ireland.
Page 1 of the first issue of the CONNECTICUT JOURNAL. The early issues of the CONNECTICUT JOURNAL, fore- runner of the JOURNAL-COURIER, are carefully preserved in Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University
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The appointment of Lord Vifcount and all the other Colleges, upon the no- Townshend, elder brother of the Right tification he had given of his marriage ; Hon. Charles Townfiend, to the impo - ,and the rejoicing upon the occafion con- ran: poft of Loid Lieutenant of lielarx. tiņued two nights.
LONDON, Augunt 5.
Yefterday an inhabitant of Aldgate pa- rifli was committed to thePoultry-comp- ter by the Lord-Mayor, for further exa- mination, charged with tlabbing a woman in the neck in fo dangerous a manuer that her life is difpared of.
Yefterday aPainter in Fetter-Jane, Fleet- Street, was examined before Alderman Crofby at Guildhall, charged with fla:v- ing, beating, and otherwife cruelly ufing, in conjunction with his wife not yet . ta- ken, two girl's their apprentices, and was
" miftreis afed to tye thein" up to a Naple that they had each of them a piece of bread, but nothing to drink, not even water. A -Surgeon who had examined the eldeft girl, declared that the wounds bad, for want of dreffing, that her fhift bad eaten into them, and they appeared as if cut with a knife ; that hardly a part and face were much wounded. The lofs
ИЗЭСТОНИИОО
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NEW HAVEN JOURNAL-COURIER
1935
JOHN B. CARRINGTON
As publisher in its transitional period, Mr. Carrington piloted THE JOURNAL-COURIER from the historical to the modern stage
the editor in that day, and one of them vigorously chided certain New Haveners who "in these troublous times" would witness a farce and a "decalogue". Another story reminds us that then as now there was a gown as well as a town: it tells of a celebration among the students at the college which included an "illumination" of the houses "about the market place", i.e., of course, the Green. The high com- missary of the college, called the steward, advertised for offers of cheese and butter, payments to be made therefor "with the best rock salt, molasses, continental or state money and a part in hard money". Even then apparently, solid folk preferred gold to paper in exchange for goods.
In July, 1775, the Journal reported: "Last Wed- nesday, His Excellency, General Washington, Major-General Lee, Major Thomas Mifflin, General Washington's aide-de-camp and Samuel Griffin, Esq. General Lee's aide-de-camp, arrived in town, and early next morning they set out for the provincial camp near Boston attended by great numbers of the inhabitants of the town. They were escorted out of town, by two companies dressed in uniform, and by a company of young gentlemen belonging to the seminary (probably Yale College ) in this place, who made a handsome appearance, and whose expert- ness in the military exercises gained them the ap- probation of the Generals." News reporting was not as full then as now; but the town was so well- knit that everybody knew by word of mouth, even
if the Connecticut Journal did not make it explicit, that General Washington was on his way to Cam- bridge to take command of the Continental armies.
Washington returned to New Haven on the tour he took through New England to recover his health after the illness which followed immediately on his inauguration in 1789. His arrival in the city is told in the Journal for October 21, 1789, and his return on his way back to New York in the issue of Novem- ber II. On that journey he. "traveled in his own carriage."
One of the biggest local "smashes" in the whole history of the paper was the account of the British attack on New Haven July 5, 1779, which was duly described in the issue of July 7.
In 1781 there was news of the passage through New Haven "on their way to join the American army, of the Duc de Lauzun with his Legion of 600 men, the strictest order being preserved". In May 1783, the Journal carried this story: "Thurs- day last was observed as a day of festivity and re- joicing in this town, on receipt of indubitable testi- mony of the most important, grand and memorable event-the total cessation of hostilities between these United States and Great Britain ." The formal treaty of peace was to be signed in Paris in September. In 1799 the Journal changed title, becoming the Connecticut Journal and Weekly Advertiser, but dropped the new subtitle a few months later to revive it again for a short period in 1809.
OWNERSHIP CHANGES
The Journal went through several changes in ownership and at length became the property of the firm of Woodward and Carrington who also owned the Connecticut Herald. The Herald had been founded as a weekly in 1803 by Comstock, Griswold and Co. Thomas Green Woodward had established the Herald, and made it a daily with the issue of November 26, 1832. Among Woodward's printers was John B. Carrington, who became his partner January 1, 1835. The Journal was merged with the Ilerald, and ten years later the name Herald was dropped and the Journal emerged as a daily. When Woodward died Mr. Carrington several times reorganized the paper, William Bacon becoming a member of the firm in 1846. The firm absorbed the Daily Morning Courier three years later, and the paper became The Morning Journal and Courier. John B. Hotchkiss succeeded Mr. Bacon in 1849 and the firm became Carrington and Hotchkiss, until Mr. Hotchkiss retired, when a stock company was formed with John B. Carrington as manager and largest owner.
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Mr. Carrington, a native of Bethany, had come to New Haven at an early age, where he engaged in newspaper work in all its branches, and it was owing to his personal popularity as well as to his keen fore- sight and judgment that The Journal and Courier was able to overcome the competition and general depression in business of that time. In 1875 he bought out all other owners and admitted two sons, Edward T. and John B. into partnership. Follow- ing the death of the elder Carrington in 1881, The Journal and Courier passed to the management of the sons, but the younger, Edward T., dying soon after his father, John B. became president.
The younger John B. Carrington was well cquipped to direct the newspaper which has played so important a part in New Haven's history. Born · in New Haven and educated at the famous Russell School, he started his newspaper career by working at the case, later doing reportorial work on state news and finally carrying on the business depart- ment. In 1906 Mr. Carrington sold a half interest in the paper to Col. Norris G. Osborn, and at this time the "and" was dropped from the title, the paper becoming The Journal-Courier, its present title. Edward T. Carrington, a nephew of J. B. Carring- ton, became publisher in 1923, and continued in this position until his sudden death by accident in August, 1925. He was a son of Edward T. Carrington, the younger son of the first John B. In 1923 he had been with the paper for ten years, having been advertising and business manager before becoming publisher. When Col. Osborn became Editor-in-Chief of The Journal-Courier the elder Mr. Carrington's wish for a business association with his old friend was realized. On the death of Col. Osborn in 1932, C. P. Ives became editor. Andrew J. Pease is present publisher.
The history of The Journal-Courier, unlike that of the New Haven Register, has been marked by the acquisition from time to time of other papers in the city. Among them were the New Haven Palladium and the New Haven Times. The Palladium was established in 1829 by Charles Adams, taken over in the 1830's by James Babcock and published under his editorship and management for some thirty-two years. It was absorbed by the
The Carrington . Publishing Company in 1911.
New Haven Morning Necos, established in 1882, was absorbed by the Carrington Publishing Com- pany in 1898. The New Haven Times, founded in 1892 and like the old Palladium, a Republican organ, in 1927 absorbed the Democratic New Haven Union, which had been established by Alexander Troup in 1871; the Times was acquired by The
COLONEL NORRIS G. OSBORN
Colonel Osborn directed the editorial policy of THE JOURNAL- COURIER as Editor-in-Chief from igot to 1932
Journal-Courier in 1932. The Journal-Courier is owned by the Carrington Publishing Company.
SEVERAL PLANTS
The Journal-Courier, like the Register, has been published in several plants, including a building at Temple and Center Streets, the old Union Building on Temple Street, and is now published in Crown Street. Its sphere of influence has increased until to- day it has a daily circulation of approximately 18,000.
The editorial policy of The Journal-Courier has been in the liberal tradition. The Journal and Post- Boy was a revolutionary and later espoused Federal- ism. Woodward, of the old Daily Herald had been a Whig and John B. Carrington, Sr., was at first a follower of Henry Clay, later supported the old "American" party and then, after that faction had been dynamited by William H. Seward, aligned his editorial influence on the side of the new Republi- can party. During the Civil War the paper was stoutly Republican and anti-secession and it re- mained nominally in the Republican faith until Colonel Osborn came to it. Colonel Osborn im- parted a more markedly Democratic tinge, but the paper had never been narrowly partisan and was distinguished in the nineteenth century throughout the regime of the elder Carrington for its temperance and forbearance in an era when editorial utterance rankled with venom and abuse. It now continues as an independent newspaper with Democratic Jeanings.
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STORM FLOODS HIGHWAYS OF SHORE TOWNS
Icy Roads, Walks Cause 3 Deaths
TROOPS GUARD PANAMA CANAL AFTER THREAT
HAUPTMANN TRIAL OPENS TOMORROW
Rain and Snow Delay Traf- fic-Part of Guilford Green Submerged; Trolleys Late
Man Killed as Auto Skids Into Tree in Canal Street- Father of Two Victim of Skip Driver in Winchester Avenue-West Havener Dies After Fall
Two motorists met sudden death here early today as icy pavements combined with the erratic Jrwing of # lut-and-run operator caused two fatal accidents. A third man died in hus home in West Haven without regaining consciousness after shipping on the ice-covered sidewalk and striking his head in the fall. Another person received serious injuries in a | threat to blow up the massive gates Reports circulated that H M Thom- as, dosistaLl superintendent ** Gatun.
Colon Panama, Jin 1 -A-Un- usual pr rations to guard the Oatun Locks of the Panama Canal Weit taken today after rumors were heard of n
Where "Trial Of Century" Will Be Held
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NEW HAVEN REGISTER
New Haven Register Building at Corner of Orange and Audubon Streets
HE NEW HAVEN REGISTER, Eve- ning and Sunday, with an average net paid circulation of over 60,000 copies per issue, the largest circulation in Connecticut, with its new and completely equipped plant, with its di- versified news services, the exclusive Associated Press Evening and Sunday franchise, its thirty-eight cor- respondents in towns nearby, with its service not only to the residents of the city but to all towns and com- munities within a radius of thirty-five miles, has its roots buried deep in the early Colonial history of New Haven. Now the only evening and Sunday newspaper in New Haven, it was founded during the stirring days of the War of 1812.
In 1812, at the time that the paper was first pub- lished, New Haven was a thriving little city of 7,000 residents, a city of simple pleasures, of keen interest in the events of the state and nation, of a number of thriving industries, of unpaved elm-shaded streets.
The amusements of early New Haven were simple. Wrestling matches were a frequent form of diver- sion; barn-raisings always brought large gatherings of light-hearted folk; the Groton Lottery was just beginning and was drawn at the South corner of the Green.
Political questions, then as now, occupied the atten- tion of New Haveners. James Hillhouse, a vener- able old gentleman, was the focus of political praise
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Extraordinary Precautions Taken Following Rumors of Plot to Blow Up Gatun Locks
Preceded by a four nch fall of snow, fain poured down on New Haven and southern Connecticut this morning while 28-mlle an hour winda lashed the coastline, swept the tide of water over bevetal stretches of shore roads and skidding crash.
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