New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1916, Page 8

. " NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, S€ATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916. EW BRITAIN HERALD HEWRALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Propeistors. 8 gsity (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. My at Berald Building, 67 Church St red et the Post Offce at New Britaim as Becond Class Mail Matter. ltysred by carrice fo any part of the ofty 16 Centr a Week, 65 Cents a Month. bscriptions for paper to pe sent by mail payable in advance, 0 Cents a Month. $7.00 & Year. only profitabla advertlming mcdium I» the ofty. Ciroulation books and press Toom alwavs open to acvertisurs. jo Herald will be found on sais at Hora- Hog's New Stand, way, New Tork City; foard Walk at- laatic Ciry, and Martfora Depot TELIPHONR CAL sinems Onice ttaria) Raooma NEW LIFE. After the enthusiastic meeting of Bt night held in the Chamber of pmamerce rooms, the directors of the Pw Britain Charity Organization are bued with a new life. Thoy are hdy now to go out and battle in real frnest for a handsame sum with ich to carry on the work during the proaching winter. The talks were fry frank, very sincere. And every- dy left the meeting with a better derstanding of the mission at hand. ey left better friends, better citi- ps, better charity workers. All of pich augurs well for the destitute d the poor. Someone has dis- ered that the only dlfference be- een the rut and the grave is depth. Charity Organization has now pided the Tut, has started out on high road to suocess and every n and woman in the cfty with the wherewithal stands ready help along the worthy enterprise. ¢ Dolier Pund from now on will be- ne & real campaign. HAS EKEPT US OUT OF WAR.” [fhere are some men who see red p moment a supporter of President lson gives voice to the expression, e has kept us out of war.” Notably ong those who resent this senti- nt are Charles Evans Hughes, leodore Roosevelt, Chairman Will- the National Committee, and bse who edit journals advocating real campaign slogan, “Anything Beat Wilson.” These men cannot where “he has kept us out of war,” ce what they term his “weak and pillating” policy caused such loss of P In Mexico. A legal decision pre- ed by the Judge Advocate General the army is used as an argument to pve that we are actually at war. is decision is founded on the prece- t set when American troops rched to: Pekin during the Boxer ising of 1900. If we are at war h Mexico now we were at war with fina in McKinley’s administration,— no one will affirm the latter pro- pition. Judge Advocate General pwder rendered a technical deci- [a so that any American soldier 1ty of murder or rape in Mexico ht be tried before a United States itary court and not before some xican tribunal,—just as McKinley 1d not suffer them to be hauled ‘ore a Chinese mandarin in Pekin. t is a strange situation we find our- es in. Those who believe “he has pt us out of war” are now con- nted with the assertion, real or plied, that we are actually at war. s a reflection on the intelligence of American people. If we are at we should have brains enough know with whom we are fighting, i not be so foolish and stupid as to ieve we are not at war. Yet, that what they are trying to tell us. As jnatter of fact the American people lize that President Wilson has 42nd /3t und Brosd- | at all on his part to follow this advice. It did require courage to refrain. History proves that the safest thing a President can do when the oppor- tunity presents itself is to go into war, 1f he would make sure of his re- election. No war President was ever defeated. Wilson had enough oppor- tunities to wage war on Mexico to malke this campaign absolutely futile from a Republican standpoint. His brand of diplomacy is of a different order. With it President Wilson has kept the American people out of the greatest slaughter the world ever witnessed, and he has done this with- out the sacrifice of any right recog- nized in the statute books of interna- tional law. To claim that President ‘Wilson has not kept us out of war is Jjust as logical as to say that the Em- peror of Austria,“the Czar of all the Russfas or Kaiser Withelm have kept their people at peace. THE SPIRIT OF HECKLING. Rampant in the breast of every man is the spirit of the heckler, now a well founded institution which, we are oreditably informed, had its ori- gin in England. sat in an No Democrat ever audience addressed by a rabid Republcian orator without feel- ing the spinit of the heckler. No Re- publican ever listened to the public intained an honorable peace when re was every chance in the world lbecome embrofled in war. This is at hurts: Theodore Roosevelt has hed from one end of the country e other against the “timidity and pkness” that gripped the United tes when it refused to go to war h. Germany over the invasion of glum. His great source of pain s from the fact that America is now fighting Germany. Mr. ghes recognizes the damaging ef- of this sort of campaigning and f time and again asserted his love peace, but he always prefixes his arks with a severe denunciaion of sident Wilson and his foreign poli- the same policy that kept us out war. -Had any of the diplomatic bstions which confronted this ad- dstration during the past two and half years been handled in any jer way no one could say today that has kept us out of war.” Then Te would indeed be some cause resentment. We must be honest with ourselves. President V own hped bther. And he any number 1d have fight br the Lusitania, or the invasion of ion th son wanted to insure ection he would have the war, way re into one or have done so He could incidents. to of forced Germany igium, not to me numerous fases lat could have fought England over B seziure of mails and ships, which of submarine warfare. v patriotic(?) societies have advo- ed him to do. It required no fear utterances of a Democratic demagogue without feeling the spirit of the heck- ler. It is an inclination as old as the hills, this prompting of the heart to halt a speaker propounding doctrines foreign to his auditors’ bellefs. If in the past the heckler did not as- sert himself it was because campaligns for the most part were different than the present one. In the days when party lines were strictly defined, when it was not safe for a Democrat to show his face at a Republican rally or a Republican to enter a Democratic gathering, there was no need of the heckler. He is therefore the child of necessity. When Republicans sat and listened to Republicans all, naturally, had to be harmonious. When Dem- ocratic spellbinders soothed the ears of Democratic listeners there was no cause for interrupting the orator of the evening. But in this campaign independent voters, and by that are meant inde- pendent Democrats and independent Republicans, have gone from one side to the other to listen to the argu- ments and in so dolng they have known that all assertions are not true, no matter by which side they might be propounded. $o in came the heck- ler and, knowing both sides of the question, he interrupted the speaker of the evening, inquiring “What would you do under the same circum- stances?” At the first appearance of the heckler the natural inclination of every one was to throw him out. Upon his second, third and fourth visits, the antagonism against him became less pronounced for American orators were not really afraid of the heckler and American auditors found that they, too, in heart, were hecklers. So the heckling has gone merrily on un- til it promises to become a fine art. Perfected, it will guarantee audiences in this country the presentation of the truth, what though it does inconven- ience the men who go about trying to impress their political views upon pub- lic gatherings? REGISTRATION AND INDEPEND- ENCE. While Republican leaders rejoice, Democratic leaders are not dis- heartened by the number of citizens who have enrolled as Republicans in this city. Registration, in the past, has not even been a straw to indicate which way the wind is blowing. Many Iindependent voters decline to register because of the belief that their political creed is a personal mat- ter, not to be flaunted in public. New Britain's experience with reg- istration has demonstrated that it is not a trustworthy basis on which to forecast elections. The Republican party, if registration is a test, should far outstrip the Democratic party at the polls. ~Yet this has not always been the case and Democratic candi- date have often secured a large vote, proving that many who are registered as Republicans are not so on elec- tion day. Democrats have frequent- ly elected candidates for office, offering convincing evidence that registration not a safe Registration is purely for the purpose of assisting iends at caucuses or primaries. That it h no greater significance is shown by history. Notwithstanding the heavy Republi- can registration, if it can be called h when Republican leaders are moving heaven and earth to get out a large vote for their candidates, Dem- dent Wilson to re- criterion. ocrats expect Pre: celve a highly complimentar, from this vote on November 7 Republican fortress. Independence in voting expected to play havoc rormal Republican plurality and tho: in charge of Democracy's desti here are not alarmed. are hardly interested of the Republican publicity bureau. by the claims FACTS AND FANCIES. Greece to the Allies: “If you don’t see what you want, just ask for it.”— Atlanta Constitution. There are a whole lot of people who are mighty glad that the Command- ments are limited to ten. It might be s0 much worse.—Los Angeles Times, We like to see a notorious sinner converted. But we don’t like ta see kim start right in and try to run the church.—Kansas City Journal. Mount Lassen continues to spout at intervals to let its critics know it in- sists on being a volcano.—Washing- ton Post. The democrats of Connecticut who are complaining of Mr. Taft’'s pre- rondering political influence at Yalo seem to have forgotten the election returns of 1912.—New York World. And now we learn ‘that President Wilson should be defeated because in a speech Seoretary of War Baker said something that he declares he didn't gay.—Utica Observes. A tarveling political correspondent finds Wisconsin too much of a puzzle, The state is full of Hughes democrats and Wilson republicans, not to men- tion the hyphen and La Fallette.— Springfield Republican. Coronation. At the king’s gate the subtle noon Wove fllmy yellow nets of sun; Into the drowsy snare too soon The guards fell one by one. Through the king’s gate unquestioned then, A beggar went and laughed, brings Me chance, at least, to see 1f men Fare better, being kings.” “This The king sat his crown, Propping his hand; Watching the down Too slow its shining sand. bowed beneath face with listless hour glass sifting “Poor man, what wouldst thou have of me?” The beggar turned, and pitying, Replled, like one in dream, “‘Of thee, Nothing. I want the king.” Up rose the king, and from his head Shook off the crown, and threw it by, “O man, thou must have known,” he said, “A greater king than I.” Through all the gates, unquestioned ing and beggar hand in hand. Whispered the king, when Before his throne I stand?” “Shall I know The beggar laughed. haste Were wiping from the king’s brow The crimson lines the traced, “This is his presence now.” Free winds in hot crown had At the king’s gate, the crafty noon Unwove its yellow nets of sun; Out of their sleep in terror soon The guards waked one by one. “Ho here! seen The king?” fro; Beggar and king, ween, The laugh that free men know. Ho there! Has no man The cry ran to and they laughed, I On the king's gray; The Kking came out. him dead; And made his eldest son one day Slave in his fathery stead. —Helen Hunt Jackson. gate the moss grew They called 597 VOTERS MADE, Sclectmen and Registrars 11o1d Final Session for Few Ynder a1 Out of a list approximating 1.000. the selectmen, registrars anq clerk in their three sessions m voters, including a few who are ro. stored. The officials Will mect again for a few minutes on Monday, Novem.. ber 6, to make voters of those sy have attained their majority since yo. terdas ] ,According to the registration of the 97 voters made at the present time, 245 registered as rcpublicans and 167 as democrats. The number, did not resis Towards the close of the sesslon last evening, Registrar William Ziegler ro- ceived a telegram from Hartford asking that a convevance meet 7:55 train at the local depot. message was from Frnest son of William Ritter of the Cremao Brewing company. He came from Amherst, Mass., to be made a voter, ard realizing that it would be neces: sary to reach C sent the telegram. Mr. Zeigler com- plied with the request and Mr. Ritter was made a voter just in the nick of time. town ade 597 The BOY’S JAW BROKE: Hartford Avenue Youngster Run Down by New York Automobilist. John Sadie of 162 Hartford avenue, seven years old, is at the New Britain General hospital suffering from a Lroken jaw and other injuries about tihe bddy received shortly befoy> 6 o’clock last evening when, near Tal- cott street and Hartford avenue he rushed blindly into the road directly In fact, they | in front of a heavy touring car driven ! by Wilson Potter, Jr.. of U | Square, New York cit The driver teen ye of age, mother, Lydia Potter was with but who t the young New t fault. They s driving slowly and his horn. Dr. Mendel attending the injured declare he wa was sounding Volkenhein is boy. the | Ritter, | hall before 8 o’clock | | old | ous. | Town Topics The political situation in New Brit- ain is growing more complex each day. Representatives of both parties breathe an opinion of genuine and unassumed optimism for the success of their nominees on November 7, but the conditions in New Britain on both state and national issues are such that any predictions may be surprisingly upset when the final vote is counted. An attempted analysis, however, indicates that the strong republican majority here may be greatly reduced. New Britain is nor- mally a republican stronghold with a majority of about 1,200. Were the conditions surrounding the fall elec- tion normal this majority might be expected to hold true. are not normal. They are abnormal and the voters realize it The voting But conditions | citizens of New Britain read and think | for themselves and during the past two or three weeks theré has been a surprising change of republican sen- timent in favor of Wilson. In some the teeling is fostered by the belief that in a time of national crisis, when ail the rest of the world is involved in war, it is best to let well enough alone. It is the examinations for captain. d that in some of the leading cities this rule is very different. The claim is made that the local eligibility rules are unfair to the ranking offi- cers of several years' service. As it is a virtually raw recruit of a fireman has an equal chance of jumping over | the heads of lieutenants older in the service and becoming captain. It has been suggested that, as is the case in some other cities, candidates for ! the captaincy should be only from the ranks of the lieutenants. . When is a vote not a vote This has been a very perplexing question in Berlin since the election of several weelks ago. Democrats, and some re- publicans, thought it was definitely ! settled when Judge Tuttle announced | his decision in the superior court not | long ago, but now, if.reports are true, | it will be many months before it is | finally settled for its'is said that the | republican nominee, - finally declared | defeated, will carry the matter to the | supreme court of the state. In the | meantime, who's who in Berlin will | be a pertinent question. e Freak bets are mow being made every day and we may look for some i | | amusement after clection day, To leave the reins of the government | in the hands of a man who has been tried, rather than try the untried. These statements the republicans will aeny, but general sentiment expressed freely would indicate that the Wil- son sentiment is really gaining here With these opinions in mind is firmly elleved that the republican majority for Hughes will be cut down material- ly and some of the more optimis democrats have ventured to predict that in this city Hughes will not roll more within several hundred of what a G. O. P. man should. In view of the hot national campalgn, I Due to the fact that they failed to notice the small advertisements in the papers stating that all who desired to | be made voters must apply before Oc- tober 16, an unusually large number of young men in this city will be un- | able to exercise the right of franchise the | general state ticket is almost forgot- | ten, but general opinion seems to in- | dicate that the higher offices will go to the republican forces, with Gov- ernor Holcomb and State Treasurer F. S. Chamberlain being returned to | office. But while the national and | subernatorial election is an event of great interest in this city, the con- test of Senator George W. Klett, re- publican, and Senator Landers, democrat, for the general assembly honors is the paramount is- sue and all others fall in the shadows when compared to it locally. Both men are popular and both men are standing on their merits of past per formances well done. As a sportin proposition, Mr. Klett should be th favorite over Mr. Landers, rarty strength, but it is argued that 1enewed political popularity, much slashing of the republican ticket national issues and a whirlwind cam- paign among the Polish voters of the city should count heavily in Mr. Landers’ favor. Where Mr. XKlett should under normal conditions win krands down, it is now believed that the contest will be unusually close, and while the odds would predict the latter’s election, it is by no means as- sured. Lonergan and Landers are ex- pected to run ahead of their ticket. George M. | due to | on | It is with interest that many of the | older citizens of this city read dur- ing the past week of an old fashianed spelling bee that is to be tween the adult members of the Par ents’ and Teachers’ association of the Smith and Northend schools. With the growth of the cities and the in- crease in public amusements these fashioned spelling bees have ceased to exist except in rural com- edies or ‘way down east stories. Years ago, however, in the days of the little old red school house, the husking bee days and the house rais- ing days, days not yet forgotten by many New Britain people, spelling bees were affairs of some interest in the community. A large crowd of community dwellers assembled to- gether, a couple of “captains” would be chosen and then sides would be selected. The competitors would line up on opposite sides of the room and a judge would then read from a spell- ing book. First a member of one team would be given a word to spell and then the other side would be given a chance. AS soon as one com- petitor misspelled a word that party had to sit down. Thus the friendly contest of knowledge would wax fu- riously until at only two would be left. TFinally one of the would fail to correctly spell a given word and the other would be declared victori- During the entire procedure, there would he much amusement. Oftimes the heretofore best speller would fail on a simple word, much to the amusement of the rest. Those were the good old days. however, e e civil ion the With the service to give commi about examinations and safety board to malke an appointment captain in the fire y of the firemen, and well, feel that the civil in this connection are not really the best way to select the most capable man. It is argued that a fireman who second to none as a fighter of smoke and flames and who may e an e cellent disciplinarion and have the entire confidence of his fellow fire- men, may not be sufficiently well ed- ucated to pass a reading, and writing high a record as some better edu- ucated, but less eficlent fireman. Thus, the best man for the position might be at aa mterial disadvantage and the deparment woald suffer. Some people think that with the educational side of the vil i the candidate’s physical, his stend- and in the well as hi considered Tt d that the va- given an oppor- they can actually ! work of Is, ote. as department maj public tests as service the department of the men, cords should be sueg ing in opinion past r as also been candidates be to show what the line of the comypic rious tunity do i a man | Some criticism, not alocne among the firemen, has also been heard con- cerning the eligibility rules. In New Britain any fireman who has been a regular for a year is eligible to take held be- | | thie higher re | guardsmen this fall. In past years notices were published in large type, attracting general attention, but due possibly to a desire to curtail expenses, these ad- vertisemnets were made smaller this vear and were passed unnoticed by many. Almost every day the reg trars have to turn back some hopeful voung voter who wished to “be made” that he might cast his first ballot for cither Wilson or Hughes. o Tt has been learned with satisfaction that the board of public works that has charge of installing the new white way system does not intend to leave the broken concrete walks about the center in a patched up condition. In order to lay the subway wires it has been necessary to rip up big blocks of side walks, and property owners feared that these would be repaired by simply filling in the broken places. The public works board gives assur- | ance, however, that this is not to be | so, and entire new blocks of concrete | will be set in. . Members of the local military com- | panies are now warning their friends that they must no them as militiamen. According to the recent army bill the state militia units ceased to exist. All such mili- tary bodies are units of the national guard and the members, unless in the federal service should be termed or national guardsmen. 3w e Lovely woman's instinctive desire to get a bargain wherever possible has cost a number of New Britain women, particularly the younger ones, a number of dimes that were weaned from their purses by an alluring ad from a supposed Minneapolis con- cern. This fake concern advertised that any woman who would send 10 cents in silver and write to five of her rriends urging them to join the end- less chain would receive a “new, 1917 model petticoat.” Some of this clty’s fair sex, in common with those throughont the country, “bit”” Fed- eral agents are now on the trail, look- ing for the clever swindlers who did not even have a petticoat for a sam- rle. longer refer to * Bither maliciously or on a spirit of fun, a local soldier returned from the border played a trick on a local mer- chant during the past week that cost the business man the price of a neck- tie. With considerably noise the re- turned soldier entered the store, sought out the proprietor and shook Lim by the hand. Later he sauntered through the store and picked out a reck-tie. Instead of paying for it he told the clerk that it was all right, 2 said T could have it. Having | cen the two in discussion the clerk accepted the statement as true, when ‘s 2 matter of fact it was pure fabri- | ation. - x ox e Without heir cour: rve their detracting one whit from or their willingness to country, it may be stated t it was indeed a happy moment for the local soldiers when they were finally mustered out of the federal vice. While they were on the bor- der the was not so bad. and there was ever the possiblity that the morrow might bring exciting devel- cpments. But back home, the time was most wearisome. To be freed from the sheckles that bound them to the armory and permitted to go their separate wavs was certainly gratify- ing pecially since the privates who in the role of citizens were cab- able of earning, In many instanc itheir $2 or $4 per day, had to con- tent themselves with their meager ormy pay of fifty cents a day. With imental officers this was different as many of them received higher government salaries than they routine | do in private life. Back on the plain status of na- | tional guardsmen, a campaign is to be together | | e to fill the ranks of both Recruits will be solicited possible done to in- crease the muster roll of each com- mand. One thing however, that will | work against the efforts of the re- | cruiting officers is the new rule which requires the guardsmen to report at 1ihe armory for drill on two nights of cach week. Among the younger men particularly wili this ruling be objec- tionable. While many men would willingly give up one night each week o the tedious ordeal of drill :lnd»m' itary the thought of giving up two nights, under penalty of a fine for not reporting, is not the most temptin It is feared that this one thing v deter many first class men from the ranks. Canned goods are gaing up. An- | other Wow to matrimony!—Chicago News. waged he companies. and everything Jjoinin, { miliar with | bert’s will. PAGONCHA Old Indian Term, First Known Place-Name for This ‘ Locality, Which Included New Britain. ‘ (By James Shepard M. A.) A portion of the territory now in- | cluded within the towns of New Bri- tain and Berlin was first called by the name of Pa-gon-chau-mis-chage. It was so called by the Indians before it was known by the white man, and was thus called by white settlers from the very first until that name was supplanted by the name of Great Swamp, the first English name ever applied to this locality. My attention was called to this sub- ject by Judge John H. Kirkham, Bsq., who referred me to a certain deed which mentions the said name as re- corded on page 440., vol. 10, of Ber- Iin land records. This deed is by “Richard Seymour-of Farmington in New . England” to Jonathan Gilbert of Hattford, conveying eighteen acres | of land ‘“situated, lying and being at a place called by the Indian name of Pagunthammixchaug and in the town of Farmington, bounded south on land belonging to said Jonathan Gilbert and north and east on land at present not laid out but lying in com- mon, and west on land belonging to Samuel Heywick.” This deed is dated March 10, 1678 and was recorded May 16, 1815, one hundred and thirty- seven years, two months and six days | after its execution, as stated in a memorandum immediately following the record of said deed. The consid- | cration stated in the record is twenty four acres and fifty rods of land con- veyed to said Seymour by the said Gilbert. The town clerk of Farming- ton has furnished me with an stract of the companion deed thus referred to, showing that the sald Gil- bert conveyed to Richard Seymour twenty-four acres and fifty rods of “land situate, lying and being at a place called by the Indian name of Pagunchaumischauge and is in the township of Farmington * * * butted south on a riverlet, then east on other land belonging to me the sd. J. Gil- bert, west on lott of land layed out to several of Farmington men and North on land belonging to Samuel Hoicock. Farmington land records, vol. 3, p. 210. This deed was executed on the same day as the former deed and recorded March 10, 1714, just thirty-six years after the date of its execution. Christian Lane Cemetery. It is stated both in Andrews’and in Camp's history that Richard Seymour gave the land for the Christian Lane cemetery and was the first person buried thercin. This cemetery is bounded south by what has been called “Gilbert’s River” or riverlet and hence it is probable that this deed from Gilbert to Seymour is that by which Mr. Seymour acquired the land which he gave for the cemetery. If so, it proves conclusively that the Christian Lane vicinity is the place that was formerly called Pagonchau- mischauge. It is a singular coincident that neither of these companion deeds of both parties thereto. The deed of Seymour was recorded within a few ab- | part I, by gives this comments. Each of these four publications spell the name the as it 1s found n the Court Paper is very rearly but not exactly the same as in Mr. Gilbert's original will, and is slightly different from the spelling in_ cither of the other documents herein before mentioned. Mr. Curtis applies the name to Great Swamp or Chris- t:an Lane and was I believe the first ts do so in any publication. The cther publications, herein before cited, did not locate the place fur- ther than to state that Massecup and Gilbert were both of Hartford. This same Massecup was one of the Ifi- dians who, in 1670, deeded land to samuel Stone, William Goodwin and company of Hartford. He also gave A quit claim of certain lands in Farmington to the town in 1681, but at present I have been unable to find any record of this sale of land to Gilbert, further than that such sale is alleged in Mr. Gilbert's will Never Called Meriden. Mr. Curtis in the “Century of Mer- iden” part I, calls attention to an er- ror in Deacon Alfred Andrew’s His- tory of the First Church, p. 17, as to the name of Meriden having been ap- plied to the Christian Lane territory and afterwards abandoned for that of Great Swamp. Mr. Andrews was probably led Into this error by sup- posing that .the words ‘“Moridan where Mr. Jonathan Gilbert’s farm is" in the deed which Mr. Andrews quot? cd from, refer to land located in Ber- lin, when in fact they only refer to land located in Meriden. The 300 acres of land conveyed by this deed was in two separate pieces, several miles apart, the one in Meriden and the other in Berlin. The name Meri- den did not apply to the Berlin land and I know of no instance in which the Christian Lane teritory has ever been described as in Meriden. Mr. Gilbert evidently knew of the old Indian name for the Christian Lane territory long prior to 1660. Fle was the first white man to own lond in Meriden and built a house of entertainment there, to accommodate travellers between Hartford and New Haven, as early as 1660. It was kept by Edward Higby, who was the first white man to have resided within the rresent boundaries of Meriden (““Cen- tury of Meriden,” part I p. 16.) Mr, CGilbert’s Berlin farm was not only at a place called “Pagonchaumis- chaage” when he made his will in 1674 but it was then “commonly” so- culled. When his estate was inven. s toried in 1683, that farm was sti]l known by that name. This farm ré- mained in the possession of his fam- 1ly until it was acquired by the City of New Britain a few years ago. 1 suppose that this territory, including the southeastern part of New Britain, was not known by any other than that Indian name until it was called “Great Swamp’’ about 1706. But the use of the Indian name probably con# tiued, to some extent, for some time |longer. The mother of Chief Raw- the late George M. Curtis, same Indian name with years after his death, while the deed to Gilbert was not recorded until one hundred and thirty-two years after his decease. The land that Mr. Gil- bert bought of Mr. Seymour, descend- ed to Gilbert's son Hbenezer, of Ken- sington, and then passed to Ebenezer’s son, Moses, in the year 1736. The original will of Jonathan Gil- bert, and the inventory of his estate are now in the files of the Hartford Probate court, which may be seen at the State Library. This will bequeaths to his son Ebenezer ‘“all that 300 acres of land I bought of Capt. Daniel Clark in Farmington, also that pur- chase of land I bought of Massecup, commonly called and known by the name of Pagonchaumischage.” Thi will is dated Sept. 10, 1674. ventory of Mr. Gilbert's estate, taken Xeb. 12, 1682-3, includes his farm at Meriden and also “his farm at Pa- ganshamischaug and buildings on it.” The old brick house on Christian Lane is known as a part of the Gilbert farm, and, as it is not in Meriden, we may safely conclude that it is at Pagonshamischaug. It will be no- ticed that this name has thus been found in four different documents. | Two of these are original documents, | and two are copies of other original documents. No two of the four docu- | Jaents have the name in precisely the same form. Jonathan Gilbert, at one time, acted as an interpreter in; negotiations between the Indians and | the English and must have been fa- | this name. While this name in each of the four documents | refer to the p where a part of ilbert’s land was situated, the will | the only orginal document I have ifound bearing his signature, hence | the spelling of this name in the “llll is more likely to be correct than is | the spelling in either of the other | documents. An Indian Name. name ‘“Pagonchaumischaug” in Dr. Trumbull’s Indian | rnames. It is prefixed by an interroga- tion mark, and no interpretation i given. Only one reference is cited, | whereby it appears that Dr. Trum- full had folnd only a single instance ci the use of the said name. He cites Connecticut Archives Court paper 124, which proves to be a copy of Mr. Gil- Gilbert cut off his son Jonathan with only £20, whereby a contest arose over the will and a copy of the will thus came to be found in the Court papers. I am in- formed that this was the first case in the colony of a legal contest over o will. Lithgow’s Dictlonary of Indian rames of New England, gives this same name but with no additional in- | fermation Mannarring’s digest of Probate | tecords Vol. 1, 307, gives a copy of | Mr. Gilbert's will as taken from Vol. IV pp 111-115 Hartford Probate rec- | ords. The is given The in- | | signification can be given. | expert thinks that they en | Lane | place, | tion that in some way referred to the lings well remembered that this ter- | ritory was formerly known by an In- | dain name and she knew what that |rame was. The Chief, and his sister, | Mrs. Towers, both remember of hear- | ing their mother tell about the old | Indian name for this territory, bug !they do not remember what that ! name was. i Expert Interpretations. | I have written to several parties for jan i far have only two attempts towards a Joel N. Eno M. A, an | expert on Connecticut Indian names . | writes that it “can be for paugaute- iisk-auke which means—"White Oak ce” The Bureau of Ethnology, of | Washington, D. C., report that it is probably an attempt ‘“‘to represent the common Algonquin name Pagan- fiminjishak, which signifies “The place of hazelnut bushes.” For various and obvious reasons, the old Indian names, #s handed down by the English, are often so corrupted that no interpre- tation of them can be given if taken literally. Hence it is necessary to decide what such names were In- tended to represent before the true When one represent one name, anc. another expert considers that they represent another, there is necessarily a doubt as to their con- clusions. Indlan names, however, are most generally descriptive so that interpretation which does not ap- ply to the characteristic features of the place may well be doubted. Chief Itawlings spent his boyhood days at the site of the old fort at Christian and he states that this section was, even in his day, a place where there were many white oak trees, and also a vast quentity of hazelnut lushes with nuts of enormous size. It thus appears that each of the afore- gaid interpretations are fairly descrip- tive. In asking for an interpreta- tion, T gave no description of the but I wanted an interpreta- nterpretation of this name but so translation. sreat extent of low and wet, flat lands of the Great Swamp: For convenience of comparison T liereby place, one over the other, the five different spellings of the name as Yerein given, together with the two supposed names of what the first five spellings are attempts to represent: Pagonchaumischage. . Pagonshaumischausg. Pagunthammixchaug. Pagunchaumischauge. Paggnchaumischaug. Pafgautemisk-auke. Paganiminjishak. A New Jersey farmer has paid off a $20,000 mortgage with the money icceived for his potatoes, and at pres- cnt prices some of us may have to mortgage our homes to eat his pro= “A Century of Meriden,” pp- 89-41, duct—New York Sua.