The Hartford Board of Water Commissioners held a special meeting at which the board voted to offer the Garden Street Reservoir for sale to the Hartford Fire Insurance Company for $22,000. 

The American School for the Deaf re-opened at the end of its summer break, and students began moving back onto the campus.  Truckloads of trunks arrived at Cogswell Hall.  W. R. C. Corson told the Courant that architects for the American School for the Deaf were working on plans for a group of buildings at the school’s West Hartford location.  Meanwhile, Richard M. Bissell met with architects to review plans for the new building of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, as demolition of the main school building was well underway.

The Hartford Board of Water Commissioners held a regular meeting, at which Whitney Palache and Lucius Robinson of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company offered to purchase the Garden Street Reservoir property for $20,000.

The warrantee deed transferring title on the Hartford campus of the American School for the Deaf to the Hartford Fire Insurance Company was filed at the town clerk today.  The deed revealed that Hartford Fire had paid $250,000 for the property.

The Hartford Board of Water Commissioners held a special meeting at 2:00 PM in order to consider an offer of property from the Hartford Fire Insurance Company that would ultimately cause the abandonment of the Garden Street Reservoir.

A Hartford Courant reporter interviewed Richard M. Bissell about the Hartford Fire Insurance Company’s plans for its new property on Asylum Hill and the effects the planned Broad Street Extension would have on those plans.  Bissell told the reporter that if the configuration of the proposed street was not changed, the Hartford Fire Insurance Company would be forced to abandon its new building project.

The Courant announced the intention of the members of the church to raise funds for a memorial window in honor of John Voorhees.

Meeting in the afternoon, the board of directors of the American School for the Deaf voted to accept the offer of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company for the school property. 

Meeting at 10:30 in the morning, the directors of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company formally approved the plan to acquire the land and buildings of the American School for the Deaf on Asylum & Garden.

The Courant published an editorial today that hailed Hartford Fire’s move onto Asylum Hill as the most significant development in Hartford’s rapid expansion.