Show BENEDICT SIGN SIGS It Is Still Stitt to Be Seen at New Saven Baven Connecticut Benedict Arnold lived d In New Haven Conn Cona from front 1261 to 1775 Writing to t the New York Tribune a correspondent says sars Arnold had learned l the trade trad of at atan an apothecary a and he took this up when he came to New Haven H en with success He started in business b In Chapel Street treet t opposite the Yale Tale campus but later lat r moved to a substantial su shop in Leather Leath lane now now G George street near the spot where New Ngn Haven was settled In This shop was at the town mar market market market ket place where countrymen co and trades tradesmen tradesmen tradesmen men gathered every day and nd his bu bud busl budness i ness nesa waxed prosperous at once The Tha sign which he swung over his aho shop door doorIs Is 15 now hanging in the New Raven Haven Col Cot Colony Colony ony Historical Historic l society rooms and reads B ARNOLD DRUGGIST BOOKSELLER C c FROM LONDON E SIBl TOI UE F For hi himself s t and a others and ind rightly for Cor himself first The old Leather L ather lane shop of ot Arnold is now gone In front of It stood the town whipping post and the town scaled scaleS And Anti it was waa on this spot in hi later l ter years that the last public sale bale of a slave In Connecticut Conne took place At Atthe Atthe Atthe the right the th road readied led through a cluster r rot of ot houses to the t e New N w York Tork turnpike in front ran the road to the wharves and to the left to the thEt public green and the college collee While Arnolds sign read From rom London this was as probably a purely dec decorative advertisement as Arnold had never been in London and it was doubt doubtless doubtless doubtless less put on as his neighbors adopted fic tic fictitious fIctitious honors to draw trade Arnold was first and last la t egotistical and this I early earb subterfuge was in line with his I future attitude toward the world I |