ADDRESSES AND REMARKS.

REV. MR. D. MCMULLEN, PASTOR OF THE METHODIST SOCIETY, HAMDEN PLAINS.

CELEBRATED minister, now dead, being called upon to speak, said, "that speech is silvery and silence is golden." I prefer to give you the gold and sit down, for I am only a "bird of passage" and am not "to the manor born," and probably owe it to the fact that I am a minister amongst you that I am now called upon to speak.

I am glad to have the pleasure and honor of taking part in this Centennial celebration, and to congratulate the town of Hamden for having attained the ripe old age of one hundred years to-day. We have heard that it is not in the power of the General Assembly to disfranchise you, and constitutions are not likely to be changed, and so a hundred years from to-day the town of Hamden will doubtless be a great deal more populous and a great deal stronger than it is to-day. I appreciate the sentiment uttered by the Governor of the State, that all the citizens of the town of Hamden will go home better citizens than when they came this morning. I am sure that I shall go home to-night feeling prouder and better than I did this morning.

I was much interested in the discourse concerning the flag. The red, the white and the blue may be regarded as emblems; the red of war, the white of purity, and the blue of loyalty.

I was glad to hear of the origin of the name HamdenJohn Hampden! A great name, and I pray that the town of Hamden may never disgrace the name it bears, as it never has disgraced it in the past.

And I am glad that we stand here to-day together around the firm platform of religious understanding.

We are all standing on the same platform, and we have in our churches the only kind of unity that we can have; we have the unity of the spirit in a bond of peace. We agree to disagree on unessential things, and the time has come when the fences have been broken down between the different churches, that we can attend each other's places of worship, and yet we all prefer our own religious belief. I pray God that His blessing may rest upon all churches, and I thank Him that the time has come when Father Putnam and myself can exchange pulpits. And as revolutions never go backwards the time will never come again when the old time fences will be built up between the churches.

REV. FATHER HUGH MALLON.

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I am in a position that is rather awkward to me. not accustomed to address such a large body of people, but the occasion certainly is one that I could not well pass without being present, and scarcely could let pass without saying a word of encouragement and congratulation to the town of Hamden. I have been associated with you for the last nineteen years, and certainly my relations with you have been of the most congenial kind. I have always found you ready to assist me and my struggling people in anything that I undertook. The good will that you have always shown and felt, I feel and always will feel. And I am very glad that the occasion has come-the Centennial celebration of the town of Hamden.

And I have learned more from his Excellency, the Governor of Connecticut, regarding the power that is placed in the towns of the State of Connecticut than ever I knew before, and he has given me a new idea of what would make our home across the Atlantic happy-self government. Home Rule, as he well says, a town in itself, is a little

community of men who control their own affairs and promote their own prosperity, and thus make themselves happy.

This certainly is new information to me in regard to the laws that govern the towns and counties and the State in general. I have learned certainly to-day to think more of this town of Hamden; especially its history has been to me a new one in many particulars.

I did not understand fully its beginning, its troubles, and its willingness to help in everything that required manhood. They went forth in the early days of the declaration of independence, and they upheld it with firmness and brought it home in glory.

HON. HENRY TUTTLE.

I will not weary your patience long, for there are large numbers present whom I would much rather listen to than to have you listen to me. It is with the greatest pride and pleasure that I see before me such a multitude assembled here for the purpose of uniting with us in this grand celebration of ours; it is also an additional pleasure to me, and I presume to all of you, to see so large a number of old men here to-day; old gray-headed men who have lived past the usual age of men, many of them nearly 90 years of age, many who have filled important positions for the people in this town. And let me say to you, old men, that your race and mine is nearly run, and the places that you have filled have soon got to be filled by the young men, and I believe that I speak the sentiments of all of you, when I say that I hope and trust the young men will fill the places far more acceptably than we have. We hope that the young and rising generation will so economically manage the affairs of this town hereafter that the people will be ready to exclaim, "well done good and faithful servants."

If we are rightly informed by history, our people have been noted for preparing for war in time of peace. Come to the Loan Exhibition, and you will there see exhibits showing that men from this place took a part in the Revolution. Again, when the British entered New Haven, the farmers of the town of Hamden left their plows in the field. to seize the muskets and whatever arms they had, and rush in to the city of New Haven, to help repel the invaders. Still later on, in the war of 1812, when the call for troops was made, Hamden responded to the call and sent a large number of men who served in that war until peace was declared. A record of every one of them has been preserved by me.

Still later, in the war of the rebellion, the patriotic young men of Hamden responded to the call for men, they went to the front and were in many a hard fought battle, and there are many present here who mourn the loss of near and dear friends who fell while fighting manfully for the American Union.

It is with great pleasure that we see our State officially so well represented here to-day. We hope and trust that all proposed laws of our State will be wisely considered before being made, and so properly administered that the rising generations may have reason to look with pride upon this good old Commonwealth of Connecticut.

JAMES H. WEBB.

Having already had my dinner, I feel somewhat constrained to perpetrate upon you one of the stupid speeches of Mr. Hale's double. A clergyman, who was always called upon to make speeches on occasions like this, found it such a bore that he went to a poor house and found a man that looked like him and sent him around in his place. His double was instructed to say, that so much had already been said on the subject, and so well said, that he could not see the necessity of saying any more.

But I am conscientious, although I belong to a profession the members of which some people say have no conscience.

And so, having had my dinner, and received my pay, I cannot sit down without saying something. Indeed, I never realized until this day what a grand old town Hamden is. And I don't believe the people of this town half realize their privileges.

We have heard a great deal to-day, and a great many things that we ought to be very proud of. In New York State the poor are cared for by counties, and the roads are cared for by counties, but here the town controls, and as you have heard to-day, from the act of incorporation, the town has the right to fish in New Haven, which is a very valuable right. I recall only yesterday, a man came into my office and complained that somebody had been digging clams in front of his barn, down at Short Beach. I dare say it was some Hamden farmer who had been to the town clerk's office and read this act of incorporation.

I have never before realized the natural beauties of this valley so vividly and forcibly as now, with its magnificent mountain range on the north, and East and West Rocks on its sides. We have, indeed, a goodly heritage, and we ought to be proud of it.

And I feel proud of this town that it shows such a public sentiment, such a local town pride, as has made this occasion possible. And I feel it the more deeply because there are two difficulties which the people of this town have to contend with; first, we are so near New Haven that every important movement tends to be swallowed up in the great city lying only five miles away, and the second is that we have no common center, and that in itself is a very great disadvantage, and retards the building up of a town pride and local sentiment of our own.

And another thing is very important, we have no concentration of population in the town of Hamden; it is diffused. This Centerville should be called Hamden; the