Research Notes, 1900-1909, Undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Summary
- Jan 3, 1900 Kennedy Guards; Annual meeting Board of Trade
- Jan 30, 1900 Figures on hat production
- Jan 31, 1900 Secretary Trustee of Law and Order League; Agents found gambling in progress and at least 14 stands freely selling liquor; At least 60 persons could have been arrested; 15 gambling games stopped;
- Feb 7, 1900 Special meeting of Italian Research Club and Italian Socialist Club
- Feb 21, 1900 Special censor agent will be 2 weeks; Agents paid by number of submitted
- Feb 28, 1900 Barber club charged
- May 2, 1900 Italian Socialist Club Meeting
- May 2, 1900 List of census
- Oct 10, 1900 Main street Connecticut House opened
- Oct 24, 1900 Italian Society
- Jan 30, 1901 Expansion of Town; Trustees meeting
- Apr 24, 1901 Danbury News Expanded
- May 15, 1901 Danbury Shirt Company
- Jun 5, 1901 Reverend J.H. Young, Anne Zion Merson; Trustee of building; Alfred Bell; C.H. Merritt: E.A. Housen, T.C. Millard
- Jun 12, 1901 Another long article on how the building of the Danbury and Harlem Railroad will begin very soon.
- Jun 26, 1901 Meeting of Board of Danbury and Harlem
- Jul 31, 1901 Fatal death on Danbury street; Hatters, shortage of staff
- Aug 14, 1901 Interview with C.J. Brown, assorted with Stedel and Siebert who are associated with Danbury and Harlem.
- Aug 28, 1901 Greater prosperity for Danbury in 10 years; Hatters as respectable; Wages better
- Sep 4, 1901 Payday on Danbury and Harlem
- Jan 1, 1902 Carpenters expanding College; Wave of prosperity; Danbury Day, summer of 1901; Interview with 12 local merchants;
- Jan 22, 1902 Laying Danbury and Harlem track in Ridgebury
- Feb 5, 1902 Congressman contracts past trustees about need for new building
- Mar 5, 1902 Danbury and Harlem will be purchased and funded by Westchester Tractor Company; Sold because it was too expensive to finish
- Apr 9, 1902 Marconi Society ( new Italian Benefit Society) organizes; 52 members; Meeting of Hat finishers Association (Union); Voted to ratify new bill of 1.00 per day
- Apr 23, 1902 Danbury expected prosperity of last year or two reflected; New Wile Building, new high school, Danbury and Harlem Railroad
- May 21, 1902 Interview Eugene C. Dempster; Conference of Danbury Hat Makers Association
- Jun 4, 1902 Trimmer Association votes to officiate state AFL; 500 people move to Danbury in the past year, " I was to astonished to see how many new people move to the city in the past year."
- Aug 6, 1902 Fur Worker Union
- Dec 10, 1902 Shortage; High prices for coal
- Jan 7, 1903 Hatters Association and high price of coal
- Jan 14, 1903 Association of Hat Makers meeting; Coal situation stabilizes
- Mar 8, 1903 2nd Baptist church organizes Young Men's Debate Club
- Apr 1, 1903 Danbury and Harlem withdraw from Railroad Commission; Request entrance into Danbury; Agree to have Danbury St. Railroad line
- May 20, 1903 Mayor Booth appoints David Bradley as Police Chief.
- Aug 19, 1903 Over 1000 Hatters Mar in Labor Day parade in Bridgeport; Large float
- Sep 7, 1903 New hat company, National Hat Company
- Sep 14, 1903 New High School opens; 48,000 attend fair
- Dec 9, 1903 Danbury and Bethel G + E complete
- Jan 4, 1904 St. Peter's annual report
- Jan 10, 1904 30 year old Italian man arrested for stabbing 2 men on White Street
- Jan 19, 1904 Meeting of Italian Men of St. Peters; Form organization
- May 18, 1904 Captain Torch play at Taylor Opera House
- May 21, 1904 Danbury open and trade shops
- May 27, 1904 Hatbox Shoe Store
- Jul 6, 1904 United Hatters
- Aug 30, 1904 Hat trade picks up; Most shops full
- Oct 19, 1904 Danbury leads state number of cars
- Nov 29, 1904 Letter to editor Samuel A. Doves
- Jan 2, 1905 Large attendance at annual meeting of Fur Hat Makers in New York; Danbury Relief Secretary offers plan to help "worthy poor."
- Jan 10, 1905 Van Gal again declines presidency
- Jan 16, 1905 NHRR approves Highland Drive through Danbury part of development of Poughkeepsie bridge freight route; St. Peters YMCA rents rooms in Hall Building
- Jan 23, 1905 Trial of 3 Syrian of assault on fellow countrymen on Elm St.
- Feb 1, 1905 White St. Railroad Station lighted with electricity for the first time
- Feb 4, 1905 Coal shortages on railroad
- Feb 6, 1905 Industrial census being taken
- Mar 1, 1905 Article on Truman's style in Orange
- Mar 3, 1905 Alderman passes resolution to build new reservoir
- Mar 4, 1905 Good government club favor consolidation
- Mar 20, 1905 Boston real estate firm buys Tweedy's Wools on upper Main St.
- Apr 1, 1905 Tag letter from "Ulysses"
- Apr 8, 1905 Polish mass at St. Peters
- Jul 6 and Aug 9, 1905 Soon 10,000 cars a week crossing Poughkeepsie bridge ; Large quantities of freight able to come via Danbury
- Jul 15, 1905 F. Tee negotiating with New Milford to move entire meeting from Danbury to New Milford; Mew Milford and offer to build a $150,000 plant and Tee will start with equal value of equipment
- Jul 27, 1905 Haitsch Hat Co.
- Aug 14, 1905 400 people at Italian assembly
- Aug 15, 1905 Danbury has 640 phones
- Aug 29, 1905 new reservoir described
- Sep 5, 1905 Mayor Labor Day Parade in Danbury; Over 5,000 Mar in 1st state labor parade
- Sep 6, 1905 Danbury Fair to be a "great moral exposition"
- Sep 9, 1905 New reservoir
- Sep 23, 1905 Italian draws gun at railroad bridge construction site
- Nov 9, 1905 Tee to build addition to Railroad Ave
- Nov 13, 1905 Hebrew Cemetery Association (small Jewish population in Danbury) raises money for Russian Jews
- Nov 21, 1905 Hospital crowded
- Jan 1, 1906 Summary of 1905; year of "unexplored prosperity for Danbury"; one of most prosperous in hatting history; State Normal School; Completion of Dabury and Harlem Railroad; Resevoir
- Jan 8, 1906 Danbury Hospital increase in patients, 174-1900, 317-1905
- Feb 6, 1906 Danbury Hat Meeting
- Feb 20, 1906 Office of Labor League of Danbury endorsed Organization of Local Labor League
- February 21, 1906 Local meeting with elective power station of D and B, and G and E
- Mar 20, 1906 Reprints, The Hatters Constitution, or Rules and Regulations Adopted by Central Hatters in Danbury Connecticut
- Mar 31, 1906 Survey of large public building built in past few years: Fairfield County Court House, Danbury High School, Railroad, St. Joseph Church
- Apr 6, 1906 15 year old Italian girl working at Hatters
- Apr 7, 1906 NHRR directs cutting immediate construction of Danbury and Portchester, will tie Ridgefield to Danbury
- Apr 9, 1906 Two new railroads in 1) Danbury track by NY 2) Connecting with Harlem Valley
- May 29, 1906 NY Central extends for Danbury to Harlem
- Jun 7, 1906 C. Augustus Wildmen property on Main St
- Jun 8, 1906 Detailed article on Middle River; Water use
- Jun 12, 1906 WCTU has large meeting at Church
- Jun 16, 1906 Description of new telephone building to be erected on Main Street
- Jul 10, 1906 Main public and private construction in Danbury
- Aug 8, 1906 City council agrees to contribute $1,000 to hospital. First time city contributed to appropriate corporation but now reorganized and city represented on board
- Aug 17, 1906 Sign of Danbury prosperity; 6 new hat businesses started in Danbury and Bethel during summer
- Sep 1, 1906 WCTU rally at Danbury Church
- Oct 20, 1906 Large number of new houses built, 20 constructed; Picture and description of hotel
- Nov 16, 1906 Italian Museum at St. Peters
- Dec 18, 1906 Conference for Danbury and Harlem Railroad
- Dec 31, 1906 List of events of 1906
- Nov 24, 1906 New street car opens
Dates
- Creation: Undated
Creator
- From the Collection: Devlin, William E., 1949- (Person)
- From the Collection: Janick, Herbert F. (Person)
Access Restrictions
Open for research with some restrictions. Interviews are available upon request.
Extent
From the Collection: 7 Linear Feet (, 6 boxes, digital audio interviews)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Western Connecticut State University Archives and Special Collections Repository
Contact:
Haas Library
181 White St
Danbury 06810 USA US
203.837.8992
203.837.8322 (Fax)
stevensb@wcsu.edu
Haas Library
181 White St
Danbury 06810 USA US
203.837.8992
203.837.8322 (Fax)
stevensb@wcsu.edu