It is well known that the Congregational denomination has made but very small advancement compared with others for the last twenty years.  It is supposed that the inhabitants of New Haven have doubled in number during that time; but only one small Mission church has been added to the Congregational churches.  Four Episcopal churches have been built, and filled with worshipers, many of whom formerly belonged to Congregational families.  The Methodists have built two large churches, and more than trebled in number.  The Baptists have more than doubled, and now own and occupy the Wooster Place church.  And to have kept pace with the others, the Congregational denomination should now have as many as three more large churches.

CHAPTER XIV.

NEW HAVEN AS A BUSINESS PLACE—­GROWTH—­EXTENSIVE MANUFACTORIES, ETC.

For many years I have extensively advertised throughout every part of the civilized world, and in the most conspicuous places, such a city as New Haven Connecticut, U.S.A., and its name is hourly brought to notice wherever American clocks are used, and I know of no more conspicuous or prominent place than the dial of a clock for this purpose.  More of these clocks have been manufactured in this city for the past sixteen years than any other one place in this country, and the company now manufacturing, turn out seven hundred daily.

I now propose to give a brief description of New Haven and its inhabitants in the words of a business man who loves the town.  New Haven, is to-day a city of more than forty thousand inhabitants, remarkable as the New Englanders generally are for their ingenuity, industry, shrewd practical good sense, and their large aggregate wealth; and with forty thousand such people it is not strange that New Haven is now growing like a city in the west.  It was settled in 1638, and incorporated as a city in 1784.  Its population in 1830, was less than eleven thousand, and in 1840, but little more than fourteen thousand, its increase from 1840 to 1850, was about eight thousand, and from 1850 to 1860, the population has nearly doubled.  The assessed value of property in 1830, amounted to about two and a half millions.  The amount at the present time is estimated at over twenty seven millions.  New Haven is situated at the head of a fine bay, four miles from Long Island Sound, and seventy-six miles from New York, on the direct line of Rail-road, and great thoroughfare between that city and Boston, and can be reached in three hours by Rail-road and about five by water from New York.  New Haven has long been known as the city of Elms, and it far surpasses any other city in America in the number and beauty of these noble elm trees which shade and adorn its streets and public squares.  It is a place of large manufacturing interests, the persevering genius and enterprise of its people having made New Haven in a variety of ways, prominent in