Geer's Hartford City Directory, 1899, Part 114

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HENRY K. MORGAN, HARMON G. HOWE, M. D., THOMAS SISSON.

Physician, JOSEPH B. HALL, M. D. BENJAMIN S. GILBERT, Superintendent. Mrs. ELIZABETH J. FOX, Matron.

CARRIE M. FOX, Assistant Matron.

This department of the Hospital was opened for the reception of inmates December 1, 1884. Tho present number of permanent inmates is 64; boarders, 9 ;- total, 73.

There is a class of aged and infirm persons who cannot find homes with their relatives or friends, either through inability in adapting themselves to new surroundings, or whose habits and dis- position render them disagreeable and uncom- fortable to their friends or relatives, who may be willing, or are morally bound, to afford them a home in their old age. These should not be considered objects of public charity. While it might be proper to admit them as boarders, their friends should be chargeable for their full support. The Home should not as- sume any responsibility for their future, unless a sum, the interest of which would be sufficient for this purpose, should be paid into the treas- ury of the Hospital, and become a part of the permanent fund.

Another class of applicants includes those aged and homeless persons who are in possession of some small amount of money, but insufficient for their comfortable support, and if their years are prolonged, the dreary prospect of the alms- house is before them. These ought to be re- coived as permanent inmates, provided the conditions of admission are satisfied ; and as the admission fee will only cover the expense of support for a year or two, any property they may possess over and above this amount should be paid over to the Treasurer of the Hospital, to indemnify the institution in some slight de- gree for the responsibility assumed.

Still another class comprises those aged, infirm and homeless ones who are destitute of friends and means of support. This class is a large one, and appeals strongly to our sympathy.

The liberality of our citizens toward the Hospital encourages us in the firm belief that, when the needs of the "Old People's Home " are fully ap- preciated and the vast amount of good to be accomplished by its agency is understood, it will not suffer for lack of funds, and that in the near future, the terms of admission may be made more liberal. It has been a source of re- gret to those in its management that for want of money they have been obliged to refuse ad- mission to many worthy aged and infirm per- sons, who have been looking forward to this

Home for shelter in their declining years.

This department has some unique features, dif- fering in many respects from institutions of similar purpose in our country. Many of the Homes for the aged and infirm are established and maintained by religious denominations for the care of those members of their own churches in need. Others are limited to residence in the city or town where they are located. Others, still, are established for the benefit of a par- ticular race. Few receive both sexes.

In some respects the Old People's Home is a novel experiment, restricted neither by relig- ious tenants, residents in the city, sex or race.

The building has proved to be admirably fitted in every respect for the purpose designed, furnishing a pleasant and comfortable home for the aged and infirm. It offers shelter, whole- some food, warmth, and medical service (a not inconsiderable item with the aged). Its doors are open and cannot be closed upon those of its inmates who desire to withdraw at any time.

Persons desiring temporary accommodation, in the Home will be charged such a sum as the Executive Committee may find necessary to cover the expenses of board, etc.

Applicants for admission to the Old People's Home must be citizens of Hartford County. persons of good character, not under 60 years of age, and in reduced circumstances.

Applications for admission must be made to the Executive Committee, and a full statement of circumstances of applicant must be given.

The friends of inmates and the public gener- ally may visit the Home on Thursday, between the hours of 10 and 12 o'clock A. M., and from 2 to 4 o'clock P. M. At other times visitors will be admitted only by permission of the Superintendent or Matron.

No physician except those connected with the Hospital will be allowed to attend the inmates, except by permission of the Chairman or some member of the Executive Committee.

No spiritnous liquors shall be brought into the Home, nor shall any be used by any inmate unless the same he prescribed by the attending physician, and placed in charge of and admin- istered by the. Matron.

Two trained nurses are in attendance con- tinuously upon the feeble and sick.

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Young Men's Christian Association of Hartford,

315 to 323 PEARL STREET, Corner of JEWELL and FORD STREETS. Open from 9 A. M. to 10 P. M. SUNDAYS, 1 to 6 P. M.

CHARLES A. JEWELL, President. CHARLES T. WELLS, Treasurer.

GEORGE M. HERSEY, General Secretary. APPLETON R. HILLYER, Treasurer Board of Trustees.

Organized in 1878. Incorporated in 1884.

First rooms were located southwest corner Grove and Prospect streets, and were opened April 29, 1878. Later the house on the opposite corner, (southeast) was occupied by the Association. In January, 1887, the Association removed to the Foster Building, corner of Asylum and Ann streets, occupying a large portion of the second floor, and introducing a Physical Department On November 8, 1893, the new and commodious building now occupied was opened to the public, with appropriate exercises. This building is the center of the youthful advocates of a large and interested membership, numbering May 1, 983.

The Association is organized into departments, such as Business, Educational, Information and Relief, Junior, Physical, Social, Religious, and Workingmen's Exchange. Under these different departments, the needs of a varied and very large class of young men are met. All creeds and races are welcome to join, the one requirement being: self-respect and regard for the rights of others. The fees charged for the many privileges offered being placed at a moderate figure, and adjusted by departments, so that a member is not obliged to pay for features in which he is not particularly interested.

The Educational Department is worthy of the remaining space on this page. It was endowed with fifty thousand dollars ( $50,000) by Mr. APPLETON R. HILLYER and Miss CLARA E. HILLYER, as a memorial to their deceased father, Gen. CHARLES T. HILLYER. It is known as

HILLYER INSTITUTE.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR CLASS.

Industrial, Commercial, and other branches are taught. Some twenty teachers are employed, giving instruction in the following : Architectural, Freehand and Mechanical Drawing, Woodwork, Forging, Plumbing, Elec- tricity, Physics, Chemistry Arithmetic, EnglishGram- mar and Composition, Spelling, Bookkeeping, Penmanship, Shorthand, Algebra, Geometry and Spanish. If the class is large, it issubdivided, and has more than one teacher. The instruction is given in the evening, in order to reach those who are em-

ployed in the day time. There are two terms of twenty lessons each. The fall term will open about October 9, 1899. Last winter the total enrollment in all classes was 327.

Applications for membership in any department of the Association, should be made at the Business Office in the building.

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WORK OF FORGING CLASS, HILLYER INSTITUTE.

See opposite page.

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Trinity College, SUMMIT STREET, HARTFORD, CONN.

The Charter of Washington College was granted by the General Assembly in 1828; and, in consequence of the generous gifts of the citizens of Hartford to the new institution, it was located by the Trustees in that city. The Rt. Rev. T. C. Brownell, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Connecticut, was chosen president; and in 1824, two buildings afterwards known as Seabury Hall, and Jar- vis Hall, were erected on an ample site of fourteen acres, now the Capitol grounds, but then described as about three quarters of a mile from the city. Academic work was begun, in buildings temporarily engaged for that purpose, on the 28d day of September, 1824. The beginning of a good library was soon made, and in a few years the collection of books, with those belonging to the Rev. Prof. Jarvis, was said to be the most select in the country and only less in number than that in the library of one other college. There was soon, also, a valuable cabinet. Two things proposed in the scheme of instruction were novel in their character: the arrangement for practical work in the scientific department, and the admission of partial students to pursue select courses of study. In 1845 the name of the College on the petition of the Alumni and the Cor- poration, was changed to Trinity College; in the same year a third Building, Brownell Hall, was erected. In 1871 it was proposed to the College authorities that they should sell the campus to the city to be used as the site of the new State Capitol. The sale was ef- fected, the College reserving the use of the grounds and part of the building till 1877. A new site of some eighty acres on high land south of the western part of

the city, was purchased, and ground was broken in 1875 for buildings in accordance with very elaborate plans which had been secured. Two,blocks of build- ings, in accordance with modifications of those plans, were ready for occupancy in 1878; and in 1882 the west side of the great quadrangle, 600 feet in length, was completed by the erection of the central towers, the gift of Col. Charles H. Northam. Seabury Hall contains the Chapel, the Library, the Cabinet, the Dining Hall, and Lecture Rooms, besides a few suites of apartments; Jarvis Hall and Northam Towers are arranged for students' rooms. The St. John Observa- tory was built on the south campus in 1888, and the President's house on the North campus in 1885. The new gymnasium and Alumni Hall was completed in 1887, and the Jarvis Laboratories, providing for the Departments of Chemistry and Physics, for which a large gift was made by the late Geo. A. Jarvis, was occupied in 1888. Within a few years liberal additions, from gifts and legacies, have been made to the funds of the College by Stephen M. Buckingham, Mrs. Frances J. Holland, (daughter of Bishop Brownell), Henry Keney, Mrs. Walter Keney, Judge D. W. Pardee, George A. Jarvis, Henry E. Russell, and others.

The College offers four courses of instruction, viz: 1, a Course in Arts; 2, a Course in Letters and Sci- ence; 3, a Course in Science; 4, a Course in Letters.

These courses extend over four years, with the ex- ception of the Course in Science, which begins with the Sophomore year.

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Students completing the Course in Arts receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts ; those completing the Course in Letters and Science, or the Course in Sci- ence, receive the degree of Bachelor of Science; and those completing the Course in Letters re- ceive the degree of" Bachelor of Letters. The Statutes provide that students who do not propose to attend the whole course of instruction may be per- mitted,under the name of Students in Special Courses, to recite with regular classes in such studies as, upon examination, they shall be found qualified to pursue.

The requirements for admission to the Course in Arts are as follows:

Greek :- Grammar; Anabasis, four books; Iliad three books; Prose Composition; History.

Latin :- Grammar; Cæsar, four books; Eneid, six books; Cicero, five orations; Extempore Translation from prose and verse; Prose Composition ; History and Geography.

Mathematics :- Arithmetic; Algebra, through Quad- ratics, together with Proportion, Progressions, and the Binominal Theorem; Plane Geometry.

English :- Grammar: Composition on a subject from assigned works in English Literature.

Candidates for admission to other courses substitute elementary French or German for the requirements in Greek; those for the Course in Letters and Science also omit the requirement in extempore Latin transla- tion; and Candidates for admission to the Course in Science are also examined in six books of Cæsar with Latin Grammar and Composition, in Algebra as far as the Theory of Equations, in the whole of Geometry, in Plane Trigonometry, in Trench's Study of Words, and in the History of the United States.

A complete course in Electrical Engineering has been provided for, beginning September, 1899.

In addition to the Religious Studies (to which one hour a week is assigned throughout each course) each student is required to take at least fifteen hours a week. The Sophomores are allowed a choice of four out of seven studies, with certain restrictions, besides a course in English ; and four-fifths of the work of the last two years is in elective studies, in which over sixty courses are offered. The Freshmen and the Sophomores have regular work in the gymnasium, under the charge of an instructor.

Two Examinations for admission are held at the College in each year; the first at the end of June, in Commencement Week, and the second in September, immediately before the beginning of Christmas Term (in 1899, September 19, 20, and 21.)

The academic year is equally divided intotwo terms. The year begins with examinations for Admission about the 15th of September, and extends to Com- mencement, which falls on the last Thursday in June (in 1899, June 29th). There is a recess of two or three weeks at Christmas, and another of ten days in the spring.

Honors are conferred in fifteen studies or groups of studies. The honor grade is obtained by students hav- ing, in both term-mark and examination-mark in any study, an average of nine on a scale of ten.

Three appointments to speak at Commencement are based on the aggregate standing at the end of Christ- mas term in Senior year ; and three other speakers are ordinarily selected from the remaining members of the class after competition.

The Library, which is open every week day, contains about 88,000 volumes, exclusive of many duplicates and unbound pamphlets. The Burgess, Elton, Shef- field, Peters, Athensum, Alumni, and Northam Library Funds amount to about $40,000.

The Cabinet, open every week day, contains valua- ble collections in Natural History, Geology and Min- eralogy, including a complete suite of Ward's casts, a large collection of skeletons, specimens of rocks, pho- tographic views, etc.

The Observatory has been recently provided with a new telescope of excellent make.

The Treasurer's bills including tuition, room rent, heat and incidentals, vary from $242.50 to $177.50, according to the location of rooms. The amount of these bills is considerably reduced to holders of schol- arships. For holders of those scholarships which re- mit the entire charges for tuition and room rent, the Treasurer's bills are reduced to $42.50; and the neces- sary expenses of such students, including board and other personal items, will not exceed $250 or $300 & year. Application for any scholarship should bemade in writing to the President by the parent or guardian, at or before the beginning of the term in which the student intends to enter.

Most of the rooms in the College buildings are so arranged as to provide that two students rooming together have a common study and separate bedrooms. All the rooms are heated by steam, and ventilation is secured by open fire-places. Water is carried into each section.

Prizes are awarded each year for excellence in spe- cial work, as tested by written theses or examinations; for some of which special endowments have been provided ; and also for excellence in composition and declamation. To these prizes have been added re- cently the three Holland Prize Scholarships, each having the annual value of about $600, and the Russell Fellowship. There is also a prize offered to students . for Hartford for the best examinations for admission.

The number of the Alumni of the College is 1300, of whom about 745 survive.

The faculty is at present constituted as follows: The Rev. GEORGE WILLIAMSON SMITH, D.D., LL.D. PRESIDENT; and Hobart Professor of. Metaphysics.

The Rev. THOMAS R. PYNCHON, D.D., LLD., Brownell Professor of Moral Philosophy. The Rev. SAMUEL HART, D.D., Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. The Rev. FLAVEL S. LUTHER, M.A., Seabury Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, and Secretary.

The Rev. HENRY FERGUSON, M.A., Northam Professor of History and Political Science. CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON, M.A., Professor of English Literature.

The Rev. JOHN J. McCOOK, M.A., Professor of Modern Languages. . WM. LISPENARD ROBB, PH. D,, Professor of Physics. ROBERT BAIRD RIGGS, PH. D., . Scovill Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science.

W. R. MARTIN, LLB, PH. D., Professor of Oriental and Modern Languages. FRANK COLE BABBITT, PH. D., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. HENRY WASHINGTON PRESCOTT, M. 4, Instructor in Latin.

There are also instructors in Natural Science, Draw- ing, Elocution, History, English, Physics, and Physical Culture, and Lecturers on Law, Anatomy, Hygiene, and English and Italian Literature.

Copies of Examination papers and of Catalogues, and information of every kind touching the Courses of Instructions, Scholarships, etc., can be obtained from the President, or from the Secretary of the Faculty. For Societies, see page 727.

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CABE MEMORIAL LIBRARY. MUSEUM.

HOBMER HALL. CHAPEL. THE HARTFORD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

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The Hartford Theological Seminary;

Formerly known as "THE THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT."

Sixty-sixth Year, 1899-1900.

This Seminary is managed by Trustees elect- ed by THE PASTORAL UNION OF CONNECTICUT, a large and increasing association of Congrega- tional ministers.

THE PASTORAL UNION was formed in 1833; and the charter of the Seminary was secured in 1834. The first building was erected at East Windsor Hill, in 1834, where the Seminary remained for over 30 years. In October, 1865, it was removed to 33 Prospect street, Hartford. The corner-stone of its present commodious building, HOSMER HALL, 1507 Broad street, was laid May 8, 1879. This building was the gift of the late James B. Hoxmer. It is of brick and stone, three stories and French roof, 160 feet front, with two wings over 100 feet deep. It contains a chapel, music-room, reading-room, several lecture-rooms, office, abont sixty stu- dents' rooms, dining-room, kitchen and lann- dry, with every appliance for comfort and efficiency. A fully equipped GYMNASIUM, 32 by 60 feet, is placed somewhat in the rear.

The LIBRARY contains over 71,000 books and 37,600 pamphlets, the larger part of which was secured through the liberality of the late NEWTON CASE. It includes many rare and valuable books, and is especially rich in biblical texts, bibliography, Arabic literature, Reformation history, Lutherana and Hymnol- ogy. It is open to students and the public generally for consultation and the drawing of books from 7.30 A.M. to 9.30 P. M., Sundays excepted. The CASE MEMORIAL LIBRARY is a large, fully-equipped, fire-proof building, ample for the needs of the Library for many years to come.

The READING ROOM is supplied with over 400 periodicals, including several daily pa- pers, the various religions weeklies, and the leading American and European reviews.

The MUSEUM contains the large collection of curiosities from missionary lands, gathered by the American Board, together with many ac- quired by the Seminary, forming an unusually rich and instructive exhibit.

The calendar provides but a single session, beginning the last Wednesday in September and closing the last Wednesday in May, with re- cesses at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.

PRESIDENT OF THE SEMINARY. Rev. CHESTER D. HARTRANFT, D. D.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

President, REV. EDWIN B. WEBB, D.D. Secretary, REV. GEORGE W. WINCH. Treasurer, JOHN ALLEN.

Awtitor, DAVID W. WILLIAMS.

Term expires 1900 .- Rev. Chester D. Hartranft, D.D., Hartford, Conn .; Rev. Franklin S. Hatch. Monson, Mass .; Rev. Lewellyn Pratt, D.D., Norwich, Conn .; Rev. Charles M. Southgate, Auburndale, Mass .; Rev. Augustus C. Thompson, D.D., Boston, Mass .; Rev. Ed- win B. Webb, D.D., Wellesley, Mass .: Thomas Duncan, William Ives Washburn, New York City; David W. Williams, Glastonbury, Conn.

Term expires 1901 .- Rev. James L. Barton, D.P., Elbridge Torrey, Boston, Mass .; Rev. Michael Burn- ham, D.D., St. Louis, Mo .; Rev. Lewis W. Hicks, Rev. Henry H. Kelsey, Jeremiah M. Allen. John Allen, Fdward. W. Hooker, George R. Shepherd, M.D., Hart- ford, Conn .; Rev. Anthony R. Macoubrey, D.D., White Plains, N. Y .; Rev. George W. Winch, Holyoke, Mass .; Francis A. Palmer, New York City.

Term expires 1902 .- Rev. Asher Anderson, Meriden, Conn .; Rev. Russell T. Hall, p.D., New Britain, Conn .; Rev. Frederick W. Greene, Middletown, Conn .; Rev. John E. Tuttle, D.D., Worcester, Mass .; George E. Bar- stow, Providence, R. I .; Rowland Swift, Hartford; Edward A. Studley, Thomas Weston, Boston, Mass.

Executive Committee .- John Allen. . J. M. Allen, C. D. Hartranft, Rowland Swift, L. W. Hicks.

FACULTY.

CHESTER DAVID HARTRANFT, D.D., President. Riley Professor of Christian Theology, and In- structor in Encyclopædia and Methodology.

WALDO SELDEN PRATT, A.M., MUS.D., Pro- fessor of Ecclesiastical Music and Hymnology. MRLANCTHON WILLIAMS JACOBUS, D.D., H08- mer Professor of New Testament Exegesis.

WILLISTON WALKER, PH.D., D.D., Waldo Pro- fessor of Germanic and Western Church History.

EDWIN KNOX MITCHELL, D.D., Professor of Greco-Roman and Eastern Church History.

CLARK SMITH BEARDSLEE, A.M., Professor of Biblical Dogmatics and Ethics.

ALEXANDER ROSS MERRIAM, A.B., Samuel Hawes Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Sociology.

ARTHUR LINCOLN GILLETT, A.M., Professor of Apologetics.

ALFRED TYLER PERRY, A.M., Professor of Bibliology, Instructor in Church Polity, and Librarian.

LEWIS BAYLES PATON, PH.D., Professor of Old Testament Exegesis and Criticism, In- structor in Assyrian and Cognate Languages, and Registrar.

DUNCAN BLACK MACDONALD, B.D., Professor of Semitic Languages.

EDWARD EVERETT NOURSE, A.M., Instructor in Biblical Theology and in New Testament Canonicity and Textual Criticism.

CECIL HARPER, A. M., Boston, Mass., In- structor in Oratory.

AUGUSTUS C. THOMPSON, D.D., Boston, Mass., Lecturer on Foreign Missions.

AUSTIN B. BASSETT, B.D., Ware, Mass., Lec- turer on Experiential Theology.

Prof. GEORGE P. FISHER, D. D., LL.D., of Yale; Prof. WOODROW WILSON, PH., L.L. D., of Prince- ton; Prof. FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS, PH.D. of Columbia; Prof. ROBERT M. WENLEY, SC.D., D.PHIL. of Michigan; Carew Lecturers, 1898- '99. Rev. ALBERT J. LYMAN, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y., Carew Lecturer, 1899-1900.

WILLIAM CUSHMAN HAWKS, Tutor in Ara- maic and Assistant Librarian.

OTTO SCHLUTTER, Tutor in the German Language and Literature.

Letters of inquiry should be addressed to Professor JACOBUS.

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Woodside Seminary FOR GIRLS, No. 1204 ASYLUM AVENUE. Special Advantages for French, German and Music. Call, or Address for Terms and Particulars Miss SARA J. SMITH, Principal

Mrs. L. H. COOK, Typewriter Copyist,

Room 113, (formerly numbered 6,) 80 STATE ST.

Writing from dictation (direct on the machine.) Also manifold work. Instruction given. Copies made of pleadings, affidavits, briefs, testimony, official reports, sermons, literary papers, unpublished dramas and theatrical work. Architects', engineers' and builders' specifications, etc., etc.

PAPERS and other TYPEWRITER SUPPLIES Constantly on hand.

THE HARTFORD SANITARIUM CO., 96 ANN STREET, HARTFORD, CONN. TELEPHONE.

For Treatment and Cure of Nervous and Chronic Diseases re- sulting from excessive use of Narcotic Drugs or Alcoholic Liquors, and the Absolute Re- moval of the Appetite and Desire for Liquor, Morphine and Cocaine by the

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HON. GEO. W. HODGE, President.

REV. DR. H. H. KELSEY, Vice President.

P. D. PELTIER, M. D., Physician & Treas.

N. A. SPRINGER, M. D., Medical Director. W. B. MUCKLOW, Secretary. DIRECTORS. COL. CHAS. A. JKWELI. HON. WM. H. WATROUA HON. HENRY ROBERTE. MAJ. L. R. CHRNEY, AND THE OFFICEE&

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Geer's Hartford City Directory, 1899, Part 114

Author: Publication date: 1843 Publisher: Hartford : Hartford Steam Print. Co Number of Pages: 787

Author:
Publication date: 1843
Publisher: Hartford : Hartford Steam Print. Co
Number of Pages: 787