New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 17

ROTARY SECTION o] NFEW BRITAIN HERATL VEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1924. WELCOME ROTAR NEW BRITAIN LEADS WORLD 'LATCH STRING 15 | GREETINGS 70 ROTARIANS ARE IN MAKING BUILDERS’ HDWE. | OUT FOR ROTARIANS EXTENDED BY GOV, TEMPLETON KEYNOTE OF CONFERENCE IS FOUND IN COMMETTEES REGISTERING DELEGATES PROVES TO BE A BlG J0B, ‘Ln-un Sprague, Founder of. Local l‘lub Arrival of Iuternational Rotary President Heads, General Committee and Shows ‘Results | Thirteenth District Conference Starts Influx of Visitors s, to the City Rotary Secretary | ‘Mayo Paonessa Also Stanley Works, Ameri- can Hardware Corpo- | ration and Landers, Frary and Clark Sec- ond to Nqne. | | Officers l Hard, ‘work on ceasele the lase the part New city of painstaking committee wembers I(I itain Rotary l-»rnud the | lhl success of 4 and of the With evening Iphia, tary the arrival in Opens, Auidst Scee of Fesivids Extends Oficial Glad Hand To Says It Is Siznal Hon- Phil president W. Hill o international vice of Guy Gundaker ol international Everett SR Visitors — 1oma ident, the influx of delegates of New Messrs, Two International Officers, Three 1 € second annual conference ngland Rotary clubs began, Hill with Berlin reception Burritt trict Governors and Mare Than or To New Britain. thei st wives ion by mmittee hotel, Gundaker and were met at the members of the and driven to ] where they \V.I_\\va’ Early this morning delegates began coming in by train, trolley and auto. Howard Bruemmer, chairman of the istration committee, had a’ table up in“the fobby of the hotel and busy registering delegates up | until the noon luncheon’ and even Half Thousand Delegates Here, , First Seetion)y (Con. from Iirst Page Fred Chairman L Rackliffe A. ousice Open President Skinner and Union Manu- & A ) ; I e facturing Company Plants Together Exceed Any Other City in Chuck Manufacturing. | The first session of the ivention opened today at noon with munumuu followed by nddress by Alfred Grant Walton of th Rotary con and S con pragie A afternoon as House to Guests, the time welcomed response 0dd Fellows' i President Fred 0. !the visitors and the !made by District Governor George | #1 U Cooper of Pittsfield, whicl Irom a small farming village, em- . | Rev. Henry W, Maicr made t ploying In the only shop probably oue : ! vocation, & brief business session was or two hands, New Britain has be- held, past district governors were A4 come the greatest hardware manufae- ! presented to the gathering and at 2 Hodges, turing city in the world, Much credit o'clock an address was delivered :‘ bl Leing due to the farsightedness of A . # Distriet Governor George er, ane, those hardy settlers in the early days i’“;“l‘]‘fl';‘,"fi :’{‘;‘;x’f-‘d":‘(‘_”‘fl'"‘I'; ':I‘P‘m'n" | At noon a lnncheon Y90k toutareq Lmui of the village and town. ’ ; i a Cooper and Mrs, 17 e e e, oF Naw Britatn, |10 the prealdency of Rotary he was Hile ot s PG i N singularly enough, had its inception |th® youngest Iotarian, the youngest some of the wives of Rotarlans ant in farming. The first settlers being |Chamber of Commerce director and 4 o'clock, following the arrival of Mr tarmers, the first mills quite naturally [Subseauently became the youngest Gundaker, a tea was sorved at the were flour and meal factories, later on | PanK director in the city. same place to the three distinguished saw mills and still later factorics for |, Yred :‘I“‘;‘" "‘:f)"f;;'l h""" “’l nt "" 'A‘:: feminine guests g .‘.""f_"“’t" ] z:"m“;;‘l‘\’:g ;‘u],‘xl:f;]"’\’ He was a. director of the Cham- memories of Rotariuns trom all over shop for dyeing and fulling eloth was |PeT Of Commerce at that time. Dur- | the United State X o entertainment opened shortly after the Tumber mill, |18 the following year he was elected | Leon . Sprague, founder and first was furnished by ¢ buitders . hardware business, {® director of the Commercial Trust ¢ president of New Britain Rotary club, ' Rotary club, President 1 . greater portion of New |11 18 @ native of New Britain and is s general chairman of the committee liffe presiding. Duriug the lunchcon, manufacturing business to- |Secretary and treasurer of the Rack- and under his management the aftale at which 220 guests ywere seated, a .gan with the advent of the first | 1ift¢ Bros. Co. He l.y- a member of W\Ax become an epoch-making event in ' number of songs written especially for small sawmill on & farm, from Which Centennial lodge, A, 1% and A, M, and the eity the conference were sung to the tune 3 4 > i> a graduate of the Bordentown, N. J,, Other popular melodies, who have register- from «1 up to date the cities they come are as follows: New Haven May, T.B. Sucher, Don Thomas Clark, Vernon ank Wilcox, Fred Dawless, M. H. Smith, Leman Price, W. A. McLean, ! 1ew Clarence Parker. Norwich rpenter, Edwin - Harris, Lucius 'Briges, Al Bliyer, Grosve nor Ely, Charles Saxton, William Park, Willis Austin, . Worth, Joseph Waymouth, George Carroll, Doc Campbell, Greenwich Riteh, . G Wils Frville s, FPRANK I sHIELD FRED O. RACKLIFFE Fred O, Rackliffe is not necessarily by of vt rd Linsley, Lo M 3 sition of vice to tr the typical was true dition tory From Goveno much as r Templeton rence of the 30th diterict one long to be remembered in the spring confe wion a be coming { Connecticut 1 {City T Business college 220 at Noon Luncheon, Iy, at B Wrigiit Smith 1908, Burlington, Vi, Beecher Rutland, Vt,, rd, H. 1., Hindley Olne W. R Perey Woods, Oliver Pond Steven Lo L. Stafr Waurd, . L Per Tee Smith, Darbey, the former slon of the In 1916 h Hardwar« tion, handli tat nd that he mimittee members are of b Bridgeport City W, . Hindle, Ray French, ard Smith Neil Muirhead Cooper, George Hawley, Spargo, V. H. Kineaid ery, Ben Adams, Louis John Bresnahan, Al Fox, M stock, Harry Curtiss, George e ckliffe fruemmer, George How Fred Edward Al Lay Pawlett, ' ers’ 1 n but insisted rt, Com made tools. Axes, hoes, shovels, tongs Registrations—IHoward Horton’s voice was the subje of Woods, thriving business in this scetion. [} 1 G Russell (Continued on Pag even chains werem ade before the elalrman; Joc Andrews, much eomment by the visiting Rota —————— oh I At one time cornmeal was ground sbert Clark, Steve Robb, : Metals 2A) (Continued step the manufacture of nalls, spikes, lows: - 5 Fipenaen o1 | Military academy, follows Three soprano solos were sung hy window springs, ete., followed, Smail X Troasurer—itrank W Mol oWk 10, Hartan. i ““m 2 togers, ilans, who refused to permit n mqum-, now a maiter of for- Reception—A, F. Corbin, man; stop after her third solo. gotlen history was that of making W. L. Hatch, Louls Young, Elbridge on another. in New Britain and shipped to the|e 3 Publicity rter, chairman; West Indles, as were barrel hoops and Gold .nd Othel Orville Parker, Hartwell lor, saves, Found Also—Indians Once Program—Isnac Black, chairman; Clifford Vivian, Hunted on & Lambert Lord, Decorations Albert chairman: Herman Jones, Albert Vol “Bats" -~ Eugen Porter temby mo in wl He prosi blasksmich shops turned out hand Secretary-—Fred O, 1 companied by Theron W, Hart. Mps cider brandy and at one time was a WERE 0PERATE“ “ERE M. \\],fl‘,,,m,_ Logan Page | Builders' Hardware in 1780, Arthur Kimball, As carly as 1780 the builders’ hard- industry had Dbegun to make es in this eity, and from the books of James North, blacksmith, are found charges agaonst the accounts ¢ “Benjamin Heart, dlijah Heart,” fames Booth, Lot Stanley, Joseph Mather, Levi Judd, Dr, Smalley and othe for making augurs, Dbrads, bits, "bails, chest locks, com- eranks, chisels, crow bars, bush seythes, grips, hoes, knives, keys, pitch- epikes, shovels, tongs, spades, staples, sleigh irons, ks and a great variety Hall Jourdan, Arthur Many of the familios now prominent he Cew Brits | in the city New Britalr n Meetinge—Cieorge Dyaon, identified with the growth de- Jlepiy Mills, William velopment of the community since the Charles Chase oarly sixteen hundreds when thos Music—Ralph ‘ Britton, el hardy farmers such John Clark, "_!'"" Hart, Leland | Daniel Hart, Thomas Btanley and & l»-vl\vlu ||..vn\ \‘um g chairman; six sons, Jonat Griswold, Rober A. Mille, ¥red Chamberlain, BY LEON A. SPRAGUE Ju have ) and o s airman; Waskey, airman; T 1w NEW PUBLIC EUILDINGY ARE SOURGE GF PRIDE Hotel Factories lin City Al ks, shave New Orphe Trade School, and Hos; ges, na at that manufact ginning in er developed character known wed iy tions of the weodland and began till : “‘"” ¢ v ing their farms, Sl " The beginning of New Britain dates “The Tin Peddler. back to March 18, 1631, when the T Frenclh and Tndian war and grant of Robert, Harl of Warwick to e Revolutionary war stimulated a Viecount .Say and al, Robert Lord demand for supplies in the commu-| . ng gther conveyed the territory of nity rst commerclal factory, | Copmectneut’and included Farmington, w6y, " v outside of xm "{Q ‘L"'“‘ h d“'l’D," n:t“mmm amd Berlin, The grant Prexy l‘e”“ “a Daddy vas established by Willlam and Bd="l gpee "ohtained previously from th F N ot | ward Paterson, who came 10 this | Besi wod i vamone b of New Britain Club— country from Treland with their sis- | o Now Britadn section ’e q Deaad ter Ant 740 and started a 8h0p | 41,10 wan expected to develop into a Was Its First President for the ure of tinware, which | Jo6i v1e mining region and copper - — the this section of .44, gold, asphaltun, caleite crys on A. Sprague, kuown' to his that | DICUr- | 4nd other minerals were found here f ar # . belongs as “The YR {404 not enough to warrant the ex- (1 the “Daddy” of pense of production, although for e N brite * club. Mr, som¢ time a copper mine worked eviously when near the southern end of what is now Chamber of Com South Main strect, It _finally was businessmen together i abandened as unprofitable vithout ‘distinction be- FYossil Remains Found Here differ mes of business and | Vossil femains have been found viendly and s6cial basis with in and about New Britain and in 183 t indnated. The first effo James Nortl, son of the and Joseph Ehipman, gon \ipman, who had been dtockburidge to learn the brass d who had Leen conduct- separated and es- of thelr own. Justries in New In 1507 the formed and a jewelry the nmumi Y business a partnership, 1ed brass factorie on 1 this t began to corporation factory ma va Fro Pritain first the entire skeleton Mastodon fai e left the Chamber of Americanus” the cer und joined tie staft of the ter of the city Trust company as busi je territory gain tried, town of Berlin and the southers RS = . the “a service of New Dritain comprised of the hunting grounds o besett Indians, T 5. lunder control of the made excursions from grounds in the Hudson vs | section and they wer was found near Guy Gundaker PHILADELPHIA, PA. President Rotary Intemanonal was nufacturing now embraced by t tiris pat portior M started In 1810 Hezeklah C. ¢l a factory at e Main and Stanl ufacture of silver cloak clasps, ete. In North and Alvin Norti ip with him. Jesse Deacon Hart, built a t on the site of the Britain Nationa! bank small cuttlery and other The stream of water ¢ street in a southerly supplied Thoma for the making hards “ a8 the present site Cong tional ¢h the Whippje slart- g corner of ¢ stréets for the m. ated buckle 1812 Seth formed a par Hart, sof o water power present New | by the English’ and the native indians l Incorporated in 1786, In 17 the Britain was incorporated and the deaths 3 of the neciing was charge con- n K. Atwood ng M Irench their ley i1 nich George was ners) fear Al and made a hardware. ossed Main | direction and $aw with power also | Lee, are. His shop | In€ of the First New ] om actually one most the orga Britain, n as ea 8 south end Jon; is soup ouse wit sta Norman Wopdruf brags foundry, and Samuel made bureau locks, bellows efp., where the South chure stands GREETINGS TO OUR GUESTS [ - Visiting Rotarians from cities in New England are most heartily weleomed by’ the people of the city of New Britain upon the occasion of the Thirtieth Distriet conven- tion. The public kpows Rotary, its objectives and its achievements, well, the spirit that moves the oreanization is enthusiastically ~upmrtf~d here and the humanity that is eares’ . sponsoring that spirit is an asset to any community. As ? Dot mived itz el . human embodiments of the principle, you are welcome to e a city that approves of vou. “The Hardware City” has such points that it is anx- ious that all should become familiar with them, it is glad of the opportunity to show them to those whe may not have been in New Britain before. Community spirit warrants otie our pride in the city, that pride will lead us to ‘serve visi- 1: R Bk Totars Achicvem tors well. May every man of Rotary be thoroughly as- : Al el 96 1 e . sured that all will be done to make his stay here so happy ot that his desire to come again will be great. tud a Booth pipes, Adon the parish st o —0 built iir he limits of N Before the | Brit The war of put a num out business nd rdware busingss was confined to 1 and Whippie company. Tusi- na css(in general reverted to farming, houses 1 hot until arter 1820 d1d the man- 'now consti facturing industry Some of |Stanley Quarter b « shops yhich had been elosed were ington, the north wwened and new buildings erected Xewington and ng of and cyes for Kensington. The jer the ain” was given the “lion of ¢ gestion of Col In 1851 1 First Hooks and Fyes, first ma malke by distinct 4% & scparat and ) the wers a7l €hope ° (school societs here but in a half utes thse me, wit wile 2 ce revive, part o o 31 Everett W. Hill d :r«,i n OKLAHOMA OTY, OKLA tion in that hook Henry 1siness whieh the Soth J -,.1 ne on Page 12-A).