292 THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



"I BELIEVE IN STAMFORD" 



A Page of Stamford Interests 



"Silver and Gold" 

 This is the title of a beautiful and in- 

 teresting book giving a history of Stam- 

 ford and of pecuniary interests, by 

 Louise Willis Snead of Noroton, pub- 

 lished by The Stamford Trust Com- 

 pany, Stamford, Connecticut, and print- 

 ed by The Gillespie Brothers. It is a 

 valuable book and a credit to all con- 

 cerned in its publication. The author 

 has had the skill and the rare good taste 

 to select just the right things to make 

 her work valuable and worth preserv- 

 ing. The printing is a credit to our lo- 

 cal printing house ; it is exquisite. The 

 growth and prosperity of The Stam- 

 ford Trust Company is viewed with 

 pride by every one interested in this 

 community. The institution is an index 

 to the prosperity of this rapidly grow- 

 ing city of Stamford, which in many re- 

 spects is rightly regarded as the most 

 beautiful in the state. There is no other 

 city in Connecticut so replete with the 

 metropolitan spirit, with its own enter- 

 prising local spirit and, what is more 

 important from our point of view, with 

 such picturesque gifts from Mother 

 Nature. No part of the Connecticut 

 coast is more attractive. In no other 

 place in the state are there country 

 scenes, — brooks, meadows, forests — so 

 picturesque. Here we have everything 

 to add to the suburban and country 

 charm. 



Local Officials Visit ArcAdiA. 



[daily advocate, STAMFORD, JAN. I3] 



Eleven city and town officials visited 

 ArcAdiA, at Sound Beach, last evening, 

 guests of Dr. E. F. Bigelow. One of 

 the officials expressed the sentiment of 

 all when he said today : 



"One has no comprehension of the 

 work which is being done at ArcAdiA. 

 Any one who hasn't been there does not 

 know what he is missing. Dr. Bigelow 

 is waking us up, ninety-nine out of 

 every hundred of us, who have been 

 asleep." 



Mayor Treat, Selectman Moore and 

 Chief Brennan were impressed, as well 

 as greatly surprised, with ArcAdiA. 

 Chief Brennan said he would take the 



entire police force there next summer. 



It was not a minute after the hour of 

 8 that the social evening started. It 

 isn't always that city officers get to- 

 gether so promptly, but prompt to the 

 minute they were last evening. Among 

 those who enjoyed three hours were 

 Mayor Treat, Selectmen Moore and 

 Michaels, Town Clerk Close, Assistant 

 Town Clerk Wisdom, Assessor Fran- 

 cis S. Tipper, Chief Brennan, Council- 

 man M. R. Marquand, City Clerk Jos- 

 eph H. Provost, Mr. Marquand's sister 

 and Mrs. Brennan. 



Pleasing entertainment was furnish- 

 ed by Miss Marjon De \"ore, a violin- 

 ist from Greenwich and Miss Viola 

 Worrell, who played her accompani- 

 ments. Before the party broke up, re- 

 marks were heard from all present, and 

 it was quite astonishing to all save Dr. 

 Bigelow to hear the surprise that was 

 expressed over ArcAdiA. 



"Of course most of them had heard 

 enough about it" as one of the officials 

 said, "but we never half imagined it to 

 be anything it really is. 



A feature of the evening was a talk 

 by Dr. Bigelow. "I Believe in Stam- 

 ford," "ArcAdiA." and "General Views 

 of Nature," were three subjects treated 

 with the aid of the projection lantern 

 and projection microscope. A fourth 

 series of slides showed the em- 

 bryo of a "chick," 36 hours old, with 

 the backbone completely formed and 

 showing every vertebrae. 



"I Believe in Stamford" showed a 

 very interesting group of slides, with 

 which the party, of course, were much 

 impressed. Pictures taken at the Town 

 Hall, "making roads in Stamford," 

 birds, insects, etc., in Stamford, and 

 any number of things which were new 

 to those who saw them, made up a ser- 

 ies of interesting views. Dr. Bigelow 

 spent 15 years in Stamford and was 

 thus well able to show the results of his 

 work here. 



The members of the party even mis- 

 sed the II p. m. car home, to stay a 

 half hour longer. Refreshments were 

 served and a social time was enjoyed 

 after the talks. 



