Show KEPT THE NAILS i How Trustees of Early Yankee I Church Solved Problem I I Bots M Merchant Made the Mistake of Hi His HI Life When He Wrote No Error Errors Rectified In one of the older colder churches of ot New NewHaven NewHaven NewHaven Haven th there r is a quaint and beautiful m J service set of silver and not M Ius quaint Is the tale of how the old church came by It IL The year ar that Yorktown fell tell the trustee of the church decided that the framo frame building must have repairs and sent to Boston for six kegs at of nails In course of time the kegs arrived on one of or J the hu huge e and slow moving 1 freight wagons of the day and were duly delivered to the carpenters Nails Nalls In those dayi days were Tere scarce and expensive each eRch one being the handwork handwork hand band work of ot a blacksmith and as a consequence consequence conse conse- quence of the methods followed In their manufacture the smiths usually turning out a hundred or Jl so on days wh when n they had nothing In particular to engage Diage their attention they were apt to be Ie very Irregular In size and degree decree of perfection The delight of th the chief carpenter was therefore great tat when knocking in the head of one k keg g he found the nails of remarkably remarkably remark remark- ably ly uniform size and Indicating the best beat workmanship and material T Y were In luck deacon he be reMarked re- re Marked to to- toone one of the trustees who had been beon present to give receipt for the x kegs keil for these be Spanish nails nalls made at Toledo Belike they were taken from some com Spanish ship by a aHa aMA MA Ha rover Be Bt began to boat beat in the head of ot another k keg r and uttered an exclamation I tio tion of ot astonishment Th The s be nt nulls nan deacon I he he- he gasped his eyes staring they wire were not The Th keg keff was wu full of ot Spanish sliver silver dollars So I see ee Master Thomas the deacon deacon dea den con remarked quietly Suppose you head hue up that keg kog again and I will call catl calla a ft meeting of th the trustees to discuss discuSs' this matter We must write to the I Boston Booton merchant concerning it it The meeting of the trustees was c duly dulT held that very day and long and earne earnest t were the arguments What was the proper course for them to follow fellow Should the they thoy simply limply write tho the Boston merchant that one of the kegs had been found to be bo full of silver dollars doUan The church was poor and the deacons were wire Connecticut Yankee Yankees to the Ch bone It was wa obvious that the Boston Bos Boa ton toa merchant ha had obtained the keg In some seine unusual manner and it was wal a logical assumption that that- he had paid i for r It oa on a nail value basis as he had sold it IL Then who o might have pro one ODe aye I I done don m mighty things in had haQ no ne lived a M century ane and a half later L t us UI he BUIre suggested tod write to this merchant of ot Boston Boton town simply Imply the facts tacta that there wa was an error In shipment And so they did In time tIns came cams tho merchants merchant's reply K s said eald that he had bought the Ute kegs from a Ii that they were wore old sold as bought and that no mistakes e could be b. rectified And Dd there there- Is no doubt that the deacons dea dea- eon cons chuckled somewhat dryly as they ordered the silver ether r doll dollars an of Spain melted down and cast Into that service which can b be pointed out nut today to the tho youth of New Haven as an on example of ot of of well will something |