DANBURY, a city of south-western Connecticut, 65m. N.N.E. of New York city, on the Still river; one of the county' seats of Fairfield county. It is served by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. The population was 13,943 in 192o (21% foreign-born white) and was 22,261 in 193o by the Federal census. The city lies in a broad plain, surrounded by the foot hills of the Berkshires, and retains much of the delightful asp , of a New England village. It is the seat of a State normal schoo:, opened 1904. The predominant industry is the manufacture of felt hats, begun in 178o, which in 1928 was represented by over 3o factories, employing 5,000 workers. Other important manufac tures are hat-making machinery, silver-plated ware, electric trucks, silk braid, thread, ball and roller bearings and electric insulators. The aggregate factory output in 1927 was valued at An agricultural fair is an annual event. The town of Danbury was settled in 1684. The borough was chartered in 1822 and became a city in 1889. In 1776 a depot of military supplies was estab lished here, which in April, 1777, was raided by Governor Tryon of New York. In his retreat he was attacked at Ridgefield (9m. S.) by the Americans under General David Wooster, who was fatally wounded in the conflict. Several books about Danbury were written by James Montgomery Bailey (1841-94) , founder and for many years proprietor of the Danbury News, whose hu morous sketches in the News made himself and the paper famous. The "Danbury Hatters' Case," a suit for damages brought by a manufacturing firm against 186 hatters of Danbury in 1902, on the ground that their boycott was a violation of the Sherman Act, is important in the annals of organized labour in America. Dam ages were awarded to the plaintiff and his contention was upheld by a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1915.