. Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, business and commercial center; with brief sketches of its history, attractions, leading industries, and institutions ... 77 Increase, I38,173-68 202, 249, 312, 558, 1,191, 695,895-32 2,423, [,048, 3,525, 606, 2,949, 3,246, 74 THE CITY OF HARTFORD, CONN. It would be difficult to classify the depositors by occupation,and we know of but one serious effort ever made to accomplish thisobject, and that was fifteen years ago by the State Savings classification made at that time is as fol
. Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, business and commercial center; with brief sketches of its history, attractions, leading industries, and institutions ... 77 Increase, I38,173-68 202, 249, 312, 558, 1,191, 695,895-32 2,423, [,048, 3,525, 606, 2,949, 3,246, 74 THE CITY OF HARTFORD, CONN. It would be difficult to classify the depositors by occupation,and we know of but one serious effort ever made to accomplish thisobject, and that was fifteen years ago by the State Savings classification made at that time is as follows, and would un-doubtedly apply to die present time: Per cent. Mechanics, laborers, and operatives in factories, . Women and children, 42-5° Farmers, 91S Clerks and agents, 3°5 Merchants and Traders, Professional men, Teachers, male, .29 Artists, musicians, hotel and boarding-house keepers, officers of the army and navy, keepers of livery stables, editors and publishers, .... .41 Unknown, It is reasonable to assume that the unknown are so dividedamong the known classes that the relative proportions would MEMORIAL ARCH. /T\aQufaeture5 ip j^artford. THE BEGINNINGS. ~^^OR many years after the settlement of the country the energiesr (5 of Hartford were largely monopolized by agriculture and as new towns were planted in the wilderness, theevolution of ancillary industries followed for generations withinnarrow limits certain well-defined lines, and it was not till well intothe present century that differentiation on a geometrical scale ofprogress began. Such aids to muscle as were most urgent, andcould be supplied from the resources of a primitive community, camefirst. In 1637, a grist mill was built on *Little river, on a site thathas been continuously occupied for the same purpose since. Morethan twenty years elapsed before the colonists enjoyed the benefitsof a saw-mill, having built all their early homes from lo
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