} .Lg’: Gilt)
I,uoaxtionni matters in2 the
.Golden always tookan in-
great, and for three years was a
tube:- of the School Committee
.55: position was
v 3.. yet a bare-
.;,-._~\e a cow to '
received the
t‘ ' . _.-r.t of 25 cents
vi ' 7. -:: too enormous
«'3 _.-;: g :0 know that
‘7' ~ 13:51 to him in
:‘ »»._‘.*' currency “83
'v ‘lion of 1864-5
. little return
. n'nich young
22 natcd. He con-
. “1'9le quarter.
rach morning
. . ...: a little shop
" ‘ , paper and pring
o: the Press as it
. .53}; "Glen Cove
1a'1cn for him.
~::r.‘.er's ink had
.- ..
. .rfcen lzlsdrenms
5A 7 - .. position at the
i LIL-came a prin‘
marked his first
1' .. Fired with a
Q :‘zrizer he learn-
. and daily did
;~ arable Jobs that
‘. done in print
’ Q . 22‘ 1r; first rolkd a
” 1-. I
“ar
“‘up’.€~d. though.
..ru of the pre-
. v me was tor-med
"“ ' .xlolmon was a
l’ - - and Abrahafm
, ‘ ; nary tongue. The
:ounded our .1
" arms. John
- rebels
. 4.1-} iii: If
dx‘oils. (lulllwl
.sz.10“!ls and:
..~ on much (or am
Golden “as
a nil
..tl‘:
i-ai‘ll
5993 Gala Cure
- ;;§
f9r . Tuberculous
k}-
MWnpéawul
curefor Mania whichhss,
' for the benefit of the town that did
~ izers of the South Xorwalk Club.
’ a. director for
tom Disirict.1t was
during this time that the Concord
School was built, and the sanitary
conditions or the Franklin School
improwed and modernized.
During these years he was active
in starting and carrying on hun-
dreds of new plans among which
were the introduction of the City
Water in South Norwalk and also
the Municipal Electric Light Plant.
There was not a. single eitort made
not find Richard Golden in active
support. .
- He was one of the original organ-
which was then in the Donovan
Building in ‘Weshlnxton street.
When the Not-wall: Country Club'
was organised, he quickly secured
an option on the present site arbor-
lon's Point for the Club. He was
elected the first Vice-President. of
the Club. and the following year was
Ina/dc President. He was a director
for a number of years utter.
When the present Trinity Church
was being re-built. it was ‘Richnrd
H. Golden that was Chairman ’ of
both the Finance and Building Corn-
mittec. When the Norwnlk'Hospi-
tel was being formed. Richard Gold-
en Was active in the work and was
ny years. 3
Starts 8 And [loan
'He was active in securing tl‘ci
charter for the Nor-walk Building!
Loan, and Investment Association;
an organization which has been rc- 5
sponsible for the construction of:
many homes in Norwalk. and which
now has assets of over $600,000. 31-
A
asacomponentpsrt. indie
fimadnstelssitat' 8°“
Sincpin uuadrillc.
and others.
Star Quadrillc,
. then. Vol During his Polkas and Quadrilles
- He argued ' honover. )oung Golden lound time
.;‘r.~‘. on auth- ; for the business and political life of
» canlpk‘ of the the community. and enttrlng poli-
_. .1. for his busi- tics, ran for Mayor on the Deino-
f filo—and final- cratic ticket. The town. at that
he becamea time. had a. normal Republican ma.—
=;".'ed his coun-
rrccivcd his dis-
jority of 200. and cveryonc expected
young Golden to suffer dct’eat. He
3
i
has beenthe Secretary of this 0;-
ganimtion for :8 tears. He was :1! E
36 actixe in securing the charter tc ‘
the South Somali; Trust Co, 2.:
in 1901 went before the Connection
Legislature for this purpose. 331.3-
1988 to say, in spite of many diiTi
cunies. he succeeded.
After the death of General TE}1L"A',
whom M_r. Golden characterizes as?
”‘0 “P. T. Dzrnum of Norwnll:." he:
continual 211.2. 12“.! Estate Businesa'é
alone. 1 ull.iix.:: :I an l-onslanily. lie
3:30 commend his ‘.\ or}: for the city!
l-cttcrtzwm. however. and during the:
gconfuscd the politicians by Winning
.. so has in his pos. E his race. however. although it was.
4‘ 11.... though. : Jun! b\ the skin of his teeth R. IL:
3 ~ Hing§_ “3.3! £001.20. was elected by a majority oz 1
. . .\‘mv 2 ' -‘ :lzt'ei‘ \ntvs.
_ l 3‘ .\. Luz-or. lie exhibited those
;..." '9 Much had served him so
'.- “.11 to that time. His troubles bc-
: . :;.:. with :he memorable row with
v . Ln...- Knights of Labor, an organized
. s “don “12.959, methods were classified
. -: . =: ‘ias “um—American" by the grand old
6 < ' MN" 1 man of labor, Samuel Gompers, who
2 ' ‘ " 411“] l shortly after this formed the Ameri-
3-5 ::,.-.,- t. Liou: 35“ can Federation of Labor in New
. his time that 11'or1;,
2 ' ~. “.111 greater. As Gold- on handled the situation;
.2 rd l‘.“ put in his :1 is case. he- did in others of like:
.; H's Business Coll- dnlfiiu‘.l‘;‘-.3. ii "ms during his term Oil:
1 .‘ “u :on of the 01hr»: 1:17.? the Salvation Army, then.
. ;: new a resi- a. next or ' :ion. in this country,
- .u. reside-min! held its : . m clings in Norwalk.
1-. "21y "trough This 012111 .;: .tiun “as submitted to
-1 if-s. ,much ridzc. m.- m those dais. and fre~
'- he hep: up his l quentl) thiir members were made to
.Q 2.: plant which 'gufrer much abuse.
5 .. " toss" TWILE Wlwn their first open air meeting
I . York City-:was to be? bold hero. Golden heard
- . ans lcarnins’ that there was trouble brewing. DC-
3 '1:2- and “Drum lei-mined to lime no rowdtv'ism. he
.5_- who continua] ‘ ordered the people to lot the Sana-
t: ‘ .‘..~!3: Curing lh’." :icm Army continue its meetings in
:- r._ -.. ~12: his broth- {...-1.55,.
. 5 .n- 7:11": a small . ("hocking Rowdies
...“ '. 1w- 2. of Soufh 2‘1 'h gin- 2mm gust as much
1“. "l'WJ‘v.
N‘mincl
‘- ..m'rimions :“v
' ‘5 2‘ tovn. 1i. H-
l!“-
n
t...
. an I Mould to any or the
12-3 congrigaliuns in this
(3 old on.
: h? Il.‘ '11}:
' n-J o". Pct-liar 22._xe-r:-_l )uuu; bloods, imbue-d
-‘ 12- Nor-“31k. ...: :mschlvf. perhaps.
"5’ ll. Hoyle-z": oppOsml to the religious
1: ,x r The; “V" - Eahmion Army, began
”'1 "1?le the Salwationists. and tried
‘ .. it’ll?
1-1353.
2,“ l:l‘.. illfif
7m paper}
3 Baxter, ‘
store. g
. ‘ lim-
ll.‘- ;.~.cthods;
ml in list: pro-l
tn: the cylindoi
them “as
hand Tim 5
. ,.,.
. u}
hembcr 4, 1557
up theme-cling. True to his
Gcidcn prolt’clvd the new or-
~.‘«. :2. and mo of the youny‘men were
d and tried tor their acm.
Elm: Line on Norwalk heard
~. ..al: anon Armx in peace.
L.oldcn's menu as Mayor was for
one }'§.‘iir, and the next. year he again
éorvcd the city, this time as Council-
man. It was shortly after this—'No-
that Golden
)oincd hands with General Nelson
laylor, then one o: the lending at-
tomeys of the iowm and formed a
partnership in the Real Estate and
insurance business. Between them
: ~- on: the run ‘1 ho) carried on a. progressive POI'CY‘
.1 .m' f~
ommumty
‘ Iiour.‘
the
.. .::picd the sec.
" 2 . l‘uilding, but
quarters
gton Street
- . d by General
‘7 4 '1 n3 dt-h'ng into
moanwhiii‘.
..Ltd the Bur-
corner of
' .',;l)cth Streets.
and story
Av Dr. Bonan-
published
of Mars, andi
‘. "Iv. quarters on
3 .. 1" on: at this
. . ’ Golden sold out
’ ' .~ brother, for he
. > "»5 m the rapidly
- ' ' . .. 321:: called to
-._. Yr; “-
.. \ ‘..
...“.Hu
.1: I2.” .‘ ,-‘
,.
‘-‘- lib
..." 7' this period. was
‘ 2:13.] life of the
. long
before
“as dreamed
: in the lively
:12: latest thing
. ml at all social
1.: the Secretary
right up to the time of General Ta)-
lurs death. January 16 1594. Many
of the residential sections of the
.O“n were first conceixcd as possible
building lots in the minds of Tznlor
& Golden. General Taylor had the
'prcstige and the posiion and Gol—
den the fertility of mind and active
..bilitv. Between them they purchas-
. d the land known today as Crwocnt
Terrace, which. they dei doped. Gol-
den also. together with the late
Sicphen s. Batch. bought and devel-
Oped the Benedict Property which
was near the corncr at ‘West Avenue
and Cedar Street. Golden and Hatch-
ol also dcxcloped .111; property
around “Gosling Brook and then
built himself a house at 60 West
A‘j,£‘!lll€ until recently owned by
Dudley and Ely Hammond. He also
bought part oi the Snmour Prop-
erty corner or Certlend Street and
West Avenue and and improved the
homestead and occupied it for a.
umber of years, and later built his
present home at ‘2 East -'&venue.
Bell Island
He became interested in the land
now known as Bell Island. and soon
was elected President of the Bell 15—
land Improvement Association. He
A: 1.5.: "Home 80— bought: 13,115 down there ~11“! dawn}-
which promoted oped the pioneer 30W "med by
‘ -. s in the town. Arch Selwyn the mining Picnic"
- f '2': eoclci world magnate. Prefionély he ”on t
' ’ same property to Charles- -Klein. “36
. - r... um Dances playwright, who was lost 91‘ “‘9
k " ‘ " z-sszrxes some of memorable Lucia-8i?» mm‘ He
9 'In £1) lexees i; today aim actively «twilight:
ctr-us age, when Bell mm. owning hiihmm'e'
.. more than in~
. 11035 of a walk to
Here are some 6
ed in one pro-
0- -dat=_ xoung man
know them all:
it'll} e. “aitz, Pol-
Lurmiers. Cale~
‘ “'altz Polka.
9m
Basket
and holding the cities W;
thelmproveruen ~
is also‘a stockholder in the Bell; Is-
land Company. and Selped organise
the Bell 1mm! club. ,, -
A Notifier of today might won-
der, pondering over the present re-
sideline at the M at: the news
that in 1851‘ $811 Hana was an
i: too. For that m 9-4
first:
l
xiiiC‘n unto: -cornmigsioncrs and
slump times. when. he and Protest-
or Knudsen started a tree coflee and
reading room. he with T ?——
and Prof. Kindsen and others cou-
cclx ed the idea of starting a library.
He was then active in beginning the
South Korean: Public Library. and .
was a director for several years un~
til the present Carnegie Building
was adopted.
Two other incidents stand out in
the life- of Richard H. Golden. One;
was his unreasing work in mosquito .
extermination, and another his fight =
which resulted in pure water
Sortvalk.
I! Was Mar 1‘.
and
for -
1908 that the film.
water purification plant of mu?
city of South wNorwalk was placed ;
into commission in the Town of “‘51- ;
ton. This was one of the thin-gee
1113: Golden fought for repeatedly
Turned down many times he persisi-
ed until the matter went through. 3
Knowing that the valor match: or 5
horwalk was so impure as to keep:
away people who might like Lin Y“
town for a home. Golden went ly-
fora a. Coumil meeting. His 1‘1le
was disregarded in a public air-:1
ing.
'But." says Mr. Golden today. "i '
made a. mistake. 1 went in “in
“hen the water use prev.) fat. 2
That's why I got turned doom '3‘...
supporters of the plan waited on
next summer, when the water la.;::.s;
to taste and smell very bad.‘ It gm
worse and worse as the hot neath- 5
wc—nt on. so that when we amml
came before the people in the hot;
more to have a filter b-sd.”
Getting Pure “ita-
The water was found to be bad.
and experts upheld the opinion
or Mr -Goldcn when they reported!
”,Anabeenae Dinobyron. Uroglens, ‘1
S} m"; “d Chlamydomonas organ- 1
isms" in the water. Golden nas ap- 3
pointed on a Special Water Commit-
tee together with \Viiliam Moran
and Edwin H. Mathewson with 1m
to-
gethcr Cfiév put" through the prcsrm.
nitration plant at a cost or :1: re
0190. which has to this time gin.)
the people of Norwalk 3. pure 311;:-
ply of good water.
It was in 191:. that the mosquito
extermination plan round R.; H
Golden once more to the fore in?
bettering city conditions. and he “as
active in the campaign which re-
sulted in $7,500 being raised by pop-
ular subscription for this work.
Since that time Norwalk has ' been
fairly well free from this pest. due
to the initial work which has been
followed by the work of the Town,
which annually appropriates $1,500
for mosquito work. .
It is typical that other towns!
and authorities have called upon Mr. E
Golden for aid in special cases. 112;
has a. statewide reputation as a real
estate appraiser, due to his constant
handling at hundreds of acres 0:
property, and did much of the bus—
ing of land for the New York New
Haven and Hartford Railroad wh. n '
the quadruple tracks Were . pill .
through. Hisreel estate knowledgt
has been of use in many civil-cases,
and‘h helped the Town of Ban- 5
bury settle matters of this kind. Dar-“ 5
ing the condemnation proceeding in
Stamford relative to Atlantic Street,
now the main thoroughfare of that
town. Mr. Golden was filled from
Norwaik tom as a mem‘ber of file
Committee appointed by the Supreme
court for that purpose. .'
,BegmuhavingseruedasaDirec-
tor of the First National Bank or
South Norwalk. Mr. Golden 10611.3
holds the Inflow; oilicel- Beds;
President of the South NW
m (30.. Pren'dent o! the Taylor é'
Golden Co” Went of the For.
thaNoretoeW
#0:,“de NM
mmmmemn‘
mammalian” ‘
portionwotlflethneio-theworkot“
exterminaflomflfmfinm ' _‘
agotnBroo
“clown: iotlr‘fiéA- 3“
season. our plea was authorized. “'c I
anywhere. and all the merchandise has the Collins Compsnv Guarantee. _ . _ . . 5 "I-
at Butler Leda- figs. 9?. or them:
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for Dad Mother Brother. Sister or Sweetheart.
' ~‘ Clocks
. _ Nothing could be more 5-
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ciock’. cm: that will :0”
time truly- for years m ;
O
_ .' 'come. .
Mahogany Desk Clock . 54.98 .
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$139.00 up.
Sewing Cabinets
A delightful little gift
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. , A 7 .' r f. "
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Several A \'\2l‘_\“ useful gift.
a
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