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NEW HAVEN EVENING REGISTER
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and dissension about the city. Arts and letters were flourishing, Col. John Trumbull, whose paintings are the pride of the Yale Art School, was making occa- sional visits to the city where he was to spend his last years and Noah Webster was at work on his great dictionary of the English language.
The city was mentally alert, fertile ground for another newspaper, the Connecticut Herald and the Connecticut Journal having been established earlier. Into the field, then came Joseph Barber. Politics were the main interest of the day, the War had stimulated interest in the affairs of the old world. Mr. Barber, with keen insight into the needs of the town, decided to publish a paper with this intent:
"The columns of this paper will contain the sub- stance of all congressional affairs as well as foreign and domestic news. A small portion of our columns will be devoted to such miscellany as may provide a moral repast to youth."
The new paper was called the Columbian Register, the first issue being published on December 1, 1812, in an old building in Church Street, south of Chapel. At first the Columbian Register was a weekly paper, coming out every Tuesday morning at a subscription price of two dollars yearly. Printing and publishing were slow processes in those days. Type was hand set, young boys inked the type by hand with cushions. The press turned out no more than 250 papers per hour. Advertising, as it is known today, was unknown and the early issues of the Columbian Register were mainly devoted to news.
Barber was a staunch Democrat, and there were few others in New England at the time who were more loyal supporters of Andrew Jackson and his policies. The paper, for its day, was a lively one, and well received by the people of the city. In 1826 Mr. Barber moved his paper to Chapel Street, near Orange, and in 1834 he took his nephew, Minott A. Osborn, into partnership with him. After four years Barber withdrew over what was supposed to be an argument over policies, and Osborn took William A. Baldwin into partnership with him. The firm continued under the name of Osborn & Baldwin for the next twenty-eight years.
The Columbian Register continued solely as a weekly until August 10, 1840, when a tri-weekly was published. On January 1, 1846, the name was changed to The New Haven Register, and on May 5 of the same year it became The New Haven Daily Register. The Register was growing up. On May 2, 1864, it became the New Haven Morning Register, and on July IT of the same year the name was changed again. It became the New Haven Evening Register.
Once more increasing business brought a need for larger quarters. In 1868 the paper moved to a new building at 783 Chapel Street, where, eleven years later, in 1879, the first Sunday Register was pub- lished. The old building still stands with the name "The Register" carved in its brownstone front.
Later it moved to Crown Street. The paper, how- ever, continued to expand. When the Crown Street building was opened it was regarded as adequate for the needs of The Register. Time, however, proved that the old site was not large enough to comfortably house the ever-increasing and developing depart- ments that make up a modern newspaper, the cir- culation department, the advertising departments including classified and display, the Sunday depart- ment, the business offices, the editorial staff, not to speak of the ever-increasing batteries of linotype ma- chines, presses and other equipment. Accordingly, in 1929 The New Haven Register moved once more, this time into a fine modern plant on the corner of Orange and Audubon Streets.
The latter part of the century was to see a new editor and publisher directing the paper. In 1896 John Day Jackson, a native of Hartford and a gradu- ate of Yale, became associated with The New Haven Register as manager.
Mr. Jackson, who began his journalistic career as a reporter in New York, later going to Washington as a correspondent for the New York Evening Post and the Newark News, the Journal of Commerce and other papers, remained in this capacity until 1905, when he became proprietor and editor.
In order to serve the needs of the farmers and of the residents of the towns within reach of New Haven, the publication of a weekly Columbian Register continued until December 28, 1911, besides the Daily and Sunday.
The history of The New Haven Register and of modern printing go hand in hand. The early presses were hand run, the type was hand set. Rapid service of news to the people of the community was impos- sible. As the new improvements and inventions in printing came out, The Register was quick to take advantage of them. While the first linotype machine was set up in the office of the New York Tribune, it was not long before they were installed in the Register composing room. The old "turtle" press gave way to the Webb press and the stereotyping of forms. More speedy production became possible every year until today the huge Hoe presses in The Register plant are capable of turning out 50,000 60-page papers per hour.
The telegraph came to the aid of the newspaper and The Register was one of the first newspapers in
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Connecticut to avail its readers of the services of, independent political attitude which it has since main- tained.
first, the old United Press and, on its demise, the Associated Press, in which, as before stated, The Register has exclusive rights in the evening and Sunday field. One of the first telephones of the first commercial switchboard in the world, which was in- stalled in this city in January, 1878, was in the office of The New Haven Register.
Today The Register, printing at least three edi- tions daily, serves not only the residents of New Haven, Hamden and West Haven, but of all com- munities within a radius of thirty-five miles. A staff of thirty-eight correspondents located in as many towns, sends in news daily.
Because of its strong political leanings The Register's early history was dotted with many lively incidents. In the old days it was violently Demo- cratic. Later in 1898, it bolted Bryan and came out for the "Gold Democrats" and later for Mckinley. Those times demanded strong partizanship, and the editor of a newspaper controlled thousands of votes through his office. During the Civil War there was considerable antagonism against the paper. In the days of the first Sunday Register political organiza- tions had no headquarters where they could meet, and the Democrats used The Register offices as their meeting place. Some years ago it assumed a definitely
During the 123 years that The New Haven Register has been published it has played an ever- increasing part in the political, civic and cultural life of the city. It has been a live factor in public affairs and improvements. The Tower Driveway, the new Railroad Station, the State Armory, and the widen- ing and extension of several -main streets have all been Register projects, carried through almost single- handed. It has always fought for municipal economy and good government without regard to party lines. For many years, its work in providing a Vacation Cottage for the needy children of the city through The Register-Family Society Fresh Air Fund has had the loyal support of its readers.
Year by year, decade by decade, it has grown with the city in which it was founded. As new in- ventions making more rapid transmission of news possible were developed they were introduced by The Register. Time after time, the mechanical set up of the paper has been changed, all its depart- ments, editorial, Sunday, advertising, circulation and mechanical, have expanded, until now, in its new plant, it is prepared for the other changes that must come with the future years.
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THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK OF NEW HAVEN Originally Organized in 1854
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ELM CITY BANK
Chartered by State in 1854
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Building in which Elm City Bank was First Located in 1855, from photograph taken in 1850.
HE SECOND NATIONAL BANK OF NEW HAVEN was originally organized under a Special Act of the Connecticut General Assembly passed in 1854, as the Elm City Bank, and operated under that name as a State bank until its acceptance of a charter under the National Bank Act. By the Act of 1854 it was created a corporation with a capital of $500,000, with the usual banking powers, with the restriction, however, that no one person or corporation should subscribe for more than $50,000 of stock and, under an amendment passed in 1855, that it should not begin business until $100,000 had been paid in on the stock.
In 1854 New Haven had no public or general water supply. For fire protection the city depended upon reservoirs, constructed at convenient points, from which the water could be pumped by hand oper- ated apparatus. It had no sewerage system. Steam railroads, recently constructed, were operated by separate companies from New Haven to New York,
New London, Hartford, and on the route of the old Farmington canal. The railroad station was at the corner of Chapel and Union Streets. There were no street railways. Public conveyance to Fair Haven, Westville and Centerville was by omnibus, and a resident of Fair Haven to avail himself of that ser- vice must have finished his errands in the city by eight o'clock in the evening. The New Haven Gas Light Company had been organized and was already furnishing gas for illumination in the central area. The first decade of the Bank's business was an era of constructive progress, in which banking capital found useful employment in the development of the city, its industries and especially its transportation facilities.
On August 9th, 1854, the Commissioners desig- nated by the General Assembly to take subscriptions to stock, ten per cent of which subscriptions had been paid, supervised a meeting of the subscribers for the election of nine directors. Some difficulty, however, was experienced and many subscribers asked for or
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consented to the cancellation of their subscriptions and new lists were opened and a new Board of Direc- tors elected. Among the subscribers who refused to complete their payments was P. T. Barnum of Fair- field, who originally subscribed for $ 50,000 of stock. The first loan was made on August 7th, 1855, and among the earliest loans appear advances to the Jerome Manufacturing Company, the Scovill Manu- facturing Company, the New Haven Clock Company and Sargent Brothers & Company.
Erastus C. Scranton of Madison was the first presi- dent of the Bank and in 1856 the other directors were L. R. Finch, Thomas B. Osborne, Leverett Candee, Ezekiel H. Trowbridge, James Punderford, Augus- tus C. Wilcox, and F. H. North, the last of New Britain. L. R. Finch was a wholesale grocer; Thomas B. Osborne a professor in the Yale Law School, who had removed to New Haven from Fairfield; Lever- ett Candee was already engaged in the manufacture of rubber goods afterwards to be developed into the industry so long and successfully conducted in New Haven; Ezekiel H. Trowbridge was the senior mem- ber of H. Trowbridge's Sons, who were engaged in the prosperous shipping trade, with their own vessels, between New Haven and the West Indies; James Punderford was a wholesale boot and shoe dealer; Augustus C. Wilcox was in the dry-goods business which he afterwards so successfully developed. These men were substantial subscribers to the stock. The list of early subscribers contains many other names of interest, including among them that of Arthur D). Osborne, afterwards to become president of the Bank, for five shares, then rising in the legal profession in association with his father Thomas B. Osborne; and Samuel Hemingway for ten shares, who was after- wards to become president of the Bank and whose sons, Samuel Hemingway, Jr., and James S. Hem- ingway, and later two grandsons, were to succeed him in the Bank down to the present time. Another original subscriber and one who appears to have been very active in the early organization was Benjamin Noyes, the leading and evil spirit of the American Mutual Life Insurance Company, who a score of years later invested the moneys of his companies in the large building on Chapel Street now occupied by the Gamble Desmond Company and then known as the Insurance Building-an ambitious project. He was later found to have been guilty of criminal prac- tices and was sent to jail and his companies were liquidated. His influence, though, at the time that the Elm City Bank was organized is proved by the fact that directors Finch, Trowbridge and Punderford of the Bank became resident trustees of Noyes' com- pany.
The organization meeting of the subscribers to
stock was held in the office of Noyes in the Adelphi Building, southeast corner of Chapel and Union Streets, directly opposite the building shown in the accompanying cut, in which was located at that time the Postoffice. At that time this location was the center of New Haven business, owing to the proxim- ity of the railroad station and because it was the point at which two important lines of travel and traffic met-that from Fair Haven and the line down State Street through Custom House Square to Union Wharf.
Shortly before this time the Postoffice had been moved by the then Postmaster from the basement of the Tontine Hotel on Church Street to the building shown in the accompanying cut, which is from a photograph taken about 1850. In 1854 or the fol- lowing year Knevals & Company ( whose sign appears in the cut ) removed to another location and the new bank occupied that space. In 1860, at which time the Postoffice was moved to Church Street, between Crown and Center, the Elm City Bank bought of James Brewster the building shown in the cut and in 1873 erected upon the site a large bank, store and office building.
As conditions of travel and trade changed this site became less desirable, and in 1904 a one-story build- ing was erected and occupied by the Bank on Church Street, near the corner of Court Street, facing the Green. In 1912 that site was acquired by the Gov- ernment as a part of the land occupied now by the United States Postoffice. The Second National Bank, having purchased in 1913 the site of the old New Haven Library, just south of the present Postoffice, erected the modern eight-story office building, the whole ground and mezzanine floors of which are occupied for banking quarters.
It is not the purpose of this article to give in detail the financial history of the Bank. It is enough to say that its capital has been changed occasionally to meet the varying demands for banking capital; that it has done and is doing its part in the business of the community.
Erastus C. Scranton, the first president of the Elm City Bank, who continued as its president until it received its national charter in 1864, and of the National Bank until his death in 1866, was one of the most forceful and successful men of his time, active and prominent in development of railroads, street railways, and trade. A native of Madison, where his ancestors first settled in 1639, he had begun his business career as a cabin boy, became the owner and master of a vessel, conducted wholesale grocery and banking business in the South, and returned to Madison in 1844 at the age of thirty-seven, having already won a substantial fortune. He then acquired
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EIGHTY-ONE YEARS OF BANKING SERVICE TO NEW HAVEN
large interests in shipping, and was active also in the promotion and building of the Shore Line Railroad from New Haven to New London. He was for years president of that Railroad, and at the time of his death in 1866 was president of the New York & New Haven Railroad. His personal force and character and his business judgment contributed much to the carly success of the Bank, and the relation between the Railroad interests and the Bank established by him have continued to the present day. He was succeeded as president of the Bank by Samuel Hem- ingway, who served until 1881, bringing the Bank through that critical period of the Country's history. Upon his death Arthur D). Osborne, whose name has already been mentioned, was chosen president and served until 1899, when Samuel Hemingway, son of the second president, was elected president and served in that office until his sudden death in March 1930. Having entered employment in the Bank in 1879, his
fifty years of service was one of the longest and most successful banking careers in New Haven. He was succeeded in the management of the Bank by Eugene G. Allyn, now its president, and Louis I .. Heming- way, Chairman of the Board of Directors, son of the deceased president, Samuel Hemingway. Another son, Donald H. Hemingway, is a Vice-President.
It would be interesting, but space forbids, to show further the continued strength of the personal and business contacts established at the origin of the Bank. The Trowbridge, the Osborne and other families, descendants of early subscribers to the stock of the Elm City Bank, have continued their interest as owners and their influence as members of the Board of Directors to this day. The descendants of Samuel Hemingway the first are still giving the service for which his subscription for ten shares of stock opened the way eighty years ago, when finance was just beginning to play its important part.
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NEW HAVEN
1935
"100 YEARS OF GOOD FURNITURE"
HAMBER- LAIN CO., INC., cele- brates its 100th Anniver- sary this year, taking the date of February 21st, 1835, when its first advertisement ap- peared in the New Haven Palladium, as the time of its founding.
No theatrical setting or glittering descriptions are necessary in our writing the ROBERT R. CHAMBERLAIN history of this old concern endeared to the hearts of thousands of Connecticut's parents and grandparents. In its 100 years of faithful service. Chamberlain's has weathered all storms and stands as one of the oldest business enterprises in New England.
Since the time when Abel C. Chamberlain came from Wood- stock, Connecticut, and started in the furniture business in New Haven in 1832, this concern has gradually grown in pace with the city and today is one of the largest, most reliable and pro- gressive furniture houses in Connecticut.
The following advertisement from the files of the New Ha- ven Journal Courier, shows how the business called for en- larged quarters on June 23rd, 1835.
"CABINET FURNITURE"
. "The subscribers have recently extended their former premises and fitted up three different warerooms with a great variety of cabinet furniture and chairs and are now prepared to furnish their customers and the public gen- erally with any article in their line, either elegant or plain, which may be called for. All work warranted.
LINES & CHAMBERLAIN
East side of Orange Street, 10 rods south of New Haven Bank. Wanted as above two first-class journeymen and an apprentice."
In 1838, Mr. Lines retired from the business and shortly after migrated to Kansas, with a party of Connecticut families, to settle the West. Mr. A. C. Cham- berlain continued the business and later took in with him, his two sons, George R. and James H. P. Chamberlain. In 1886, Wil- liam M. Parsons of Northampton, Massachusetts, brother of Mrs. George R. Chamberlain, became a partner in the business. A. C. Chamberlain died in 1885. Jim Chamberlain died in 1895. George Chamberlain died in 1910. William Parsons retired from the business in 1915. These
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gentlemen were beloved by all and to this day, are men- tioned with words of great affection by the older peo- ple of New Haven.
Robert R. Chamberlain entered the business in Janu- ary, 1903, and in 1915, with a former Yale classmate, pur- chased the business when William Parsons retired to ac- cept the treasurership of the Broadway Bank & Trust Company. In 1922, Mr. Rob- ert E. Hyman purchased half ROBERT E. HYMAN interest in the concern, and since this time the "Two Bobs", as they are called, have con- tinued to uphold the reputation of reliability associated with this old concern.
Robert R. Chamberlain, the president of the company, is a grduate of Taft School and of Yale and later spent two years studying under Frank Alvah Parsons, President of The New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. Mr. Chamberlain's articles on practical interior decorating appeared in the Grand Rapids Furniture Record for over a year's period and he is recog- nized as an authority on the subject.
Robert E. Hyman, the treasurer of the company, is connected with many local organizations and was for seventeen years con- nected with The Register, New Haven's leading newspaper directly across the street from Chamberlain's Crown Street cn- trance. It is, significant that after watching the growth of the company for seventeen years, Mr. Hyman is now connected in furthering the advance of the concern today.
Robert R. Chamberlain is descended from old Pilgrim and Puritan stock, and numbers among his ancestors ten Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower in 1620, including Captain Miles Standish, John Alden and his wife, Priscilla, and banc Allerton, the only Mayflower Pilgrim who came to live in New Haven when it was first settled. Robert E. Hyman came to America when a young boy. The "Two Bobs", therefore, repre- sent the old and the new. in the settlement of New England.
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