Tunnels, 279, 280 Varied progress: steel pens, steamships, iron, lucifer matches, kerosene oil used, machine sewing, agriculture, 280; Mr. Plant on roof of office in New York noting progress, 283; sanitary progress, life lengthened by it, 282; territorial extension of our country, increase of wealth, rapid growth of cities, 283-284; philanthropic and Christian progress; higher education, better care of the insane, aged, orphans, sailors, neglected children, seamen, and others by societies, 285, 286; conventions for mutual counsel in reform and charitable work, clubs multiplied, social, scientific, 286, 287; female education, co-education, 287; homes for all classes of dependent human beings, 288; progress of medical science, lessening disease and suffering, 288-290 World’s Fairs, International, 291; arbitration; better Christian spirit, among all who bear the name, 291; Electrical Exposition, 292; message round the world in 55 minutes, 292, 293 [Illustration: text decoration] FOOTNOTES: [1] George Frisbie Hoar. [2] Mr. Alfred Plant, of Webster Grove, Missouri, in a letter of December 11, 1897. [3] Mr. George D. Plant, Principal of the Seward School in Chicago. [4] _New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg._, April 1886. [5] _Lists of Emigrants_, by J. C. Hotten. [6] _Soldiers in King Philip’s War_, by George M. Bodge, page 442. [7] His name appears, November 6, 1677, as a witness on the record of a payment. On February 20, 1683, he was given six acres on Mulliner’s Hill, below the road, on condition of his improving it within two years. On February 4, 1688, he was given six acres more “on the way hill,” that is, half way to the iron works at the outlet of the lake. He was sworn in as a freeman at Branford, April 8, 1690. His lot was laid out below the path, bounded on the west corner by a great white-oak-tree, on the north corner by a small walnut-, on the east by a black-oak-, and by a walnut-tree at the south. The original home of the Plants seems to have been near George Plant’s present residence. The old Plant house was once used as a hotel and again as a store. A tornado once tore down a fine orchard behind the house, and overthrew a cider mill near it. John^{2} Plant, Jr., sold the part of Mulliner’s Hill, which had formerly belonged to Thomas Goodsell, to Deacon John Rose, July 13, 1713, and bought of John Goodsell, in 1727, three acres at Mulliner’s Neck. [8] Orcutt’s _History of Stratford_ says that John Plant’s wife was Betty Roundkettle, and that he was probably of the Saltonstall company, but the authority is not stated.