Morning journal and courier., 1885-04-30
FAIR HAVEN.


The New Steamer Luzefme hu0dAM&-
ton-GeneraI News.
A, B. Brown, brother of the late G. s.
Brown, has returned to his home in Boston.
Frederick Potter, a former resident of Fair
Haven, was in town visiting old friends yes
terday, after an absence of eight years.
Mrs. H. w. LOOMS has mammoth Gala
that has borne sixteen lilies this season.
The amount realized at the sale of seats at
the Second church will aggregate nearly
So, 500.
The unloading of the schooner Marguerite
has been finished at Bradley & Davis wharf
She was consigned to Bradley & Davis with
a cargo of corn feed from Glen Cove, i: l.
Daniel Lawlor's new house on Market
street is we'll under way When finished it
will be quite an Improvement to that part OF
tho street.
The schooner John II. Chaffee, with oys-
ters from Virginia consigned to A. B. Barnes,
has arrived.
The elm trees on South Quinnipiac street
have been removed and the ground levsled
off Their removal remedies the danger of
teams running into them on dark nights. The
wood has been cut up and sold to MI. Graves,
of the shipyard.
the grand dramatic entertainment by the
ST. Francis Literary association will be given
tonight at st. Francis hall.
Gardeners are planting early vegetables,
such as potatoes, lettuce, beets and corn.
The late rain did much benefit to the ground
and planting has now commenced in earnest
There will be no music at the Quinnlplac
rink when the two sessions week begin.
Mrs. Josephine Field. wife of Frank E.
Field, died at the family residence, SO Lloyd
street, Tuesday afternoon, aged forty-elght
years and eight months. She had been
suffering for several months from consump-
ton. Her husband is bookkeeper for Good
year & Ives, carriage axle manufacturers
9S1 State street, and in the loss of his es-
teemed wife he will have the sympathy of
his many friends. Three children mourn the
deceased. A son was at one time conductor
on the Fair Haven and Westville horse rail-
road.
The new steamer Luzerne Luddington,
which is nearly completed at Graves ship
yard, is to be launched tomorrow or Satur-
day. She was built from a model made by
Mr. Graves and is thought to be by far the
best looking boat ever made by Mr.. Graves.
The workmanship is all frst-class and the
material used was A 1. Her dimensions are
sixty-three feet in length, seventeen feet in
width of beam and five and half feet depth
of hold. Her boiler is six feet
in diameter and ten feet in height,
which is very large one
for a steamer of the Luddington's size. She
has a ten by twenty Bigelow marine pattern
engine. A horizontal six by ten hosting en-
CINE which is to be buckled to the Frisbie
friction clutch for hauling the dredges. She
IS allowed ia pounds of steam to the square
inch and is calculated to turn forty-six inch
propeller wheel, 200 revolutions per minute
She will run high pressure only. In her
cabin, which is finely finished off, are two
berths Two more are in the stateroom aft
of the pilot house and four in the fore
CASTLE On the day of the launch
she will have fine display of flags, and Miss
Annie Luddington will break a bottle over
the stern. After the launch there will be
fine collation. given by Luzerne Luddington
after whom the boat is named-on the
shore. After she is inspected by Inspectors
Beckwith and Hovey she will make her trial
trip down the harbor with Governor Bige-
low, Judge Deming, William G. Case and
others as guests.