Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-17
FROM FAR HAVEN.

The Second Church Picn1c-A SchOOn-
 CT Adr1ft-The Quinnfpfae DraW-
 bridge-Other Interesting Items.
 There was great excitement on the Quinni- n;ac bridge that crosses at Grand street yes tarday when the schooner A. w. Thompson, of Bridgeport, heavily loaded with shells for H. I. Lewis of that place, got adrift and crashed heavily against the bridge. The tug Avery had lowed the vessel from the post office dock to the middle of the river, when she stuck fast in the mud. The tug cast or the line thinking that the schooner would remain where she was until they were ready for her. The latter at once commenced 10 drift, and even the anchor, when was promptly let down, did net prevent her from coming broadside on to the bridge. The Avery was unequal to the task of pulling her away from the bridge and she remained there until the S. R. Smith came to her re- lief and lowed her triumphantly down the stream.
 Charles Monroe, of Providence, is visiting with his family in town.
 At 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon the tu- neral services over the remains of Ellzur l Russell took place from the home of Walter ! Russell, his brother, on Chatham street | The New Haven commandery, Knights Templars to which order the deceased nad belonged, attended the funeral in in body, coming from the city in horsecars | The Wheeler & Wilson band, of Bridgeport, furnished music on the march and at the crave, The burial took place in the Fair | Haven Union cemetery. The bearers were: s. w, F. Andrews, Francis Ray, R. w.. Beecher and George B. Gladden..
 Abbott c. Page, who graduated from the | Sheffield Scientific school last month, has | received the appointment of principal in one 1 of the grammar schools in Humboldt, Iowa. Much interest is felt by many people in the recent report of the divers who sxamIned the central pier of the Quinnipiac draw bridge the other day. The report was that the base of the pier was crumbling away and that it needed l immediate ssattention. Should the crumb- 1 ling process continus to any extent the draw | would be thrown out of working order The result would be that either travel across the l bridge would be stopped for considerable 1 length of tine or else the river would be | blocked according to the position of the draw when the settling occurred. One oyster man l yesterday said that the latter calamity would be the more likely to happen, as the draw | was closed most of the time, and should any settling occur, which now seeming eminent, none of the many steamboats which anchor up the river could get to or from their locks. Captain Wright, who engineered the work ot | buiIdinp the bridge, says that there is some danger of the piers settling. The severe ice blockade last winter is the primary cause, he states.
 l The stone schooner Mary Beattie is un- loading stone which used to fill the caisson for the new pier of the railroad bridge. William G. Hunter, salesman for Wells
 Richardson & Co.,, of Burlington, Vt, is III town.
 Miss Jennie Hunt is visiting Miss Jennie
 Maginnis, of North Haven, this week.
 Superintendent Graham yesterday morn. ing gave orders to shift the track on Grand street, which had been used to avoid the sewer, back to it's original position and be fore 2 o'clock the cars were running on tho
 original rail. :,
 Workmen yesterday were digging up ths
 pavement on East Grand street in search o
 the leak in the main that has caused so mucf
 darkness at times lately in the stores on tha
 street.
 If the weather is favorable the Methodist
 ch urch and Sunday school will picnic a
 High Rock Grove next Wednesday. If tht
 weather is unpleasant on either the 21st o
 22d, the picnic will take place the 24th pro
 vided the 23d is not stormy.
 The Second church excursion party occu
 pied seven cars on their trip to and iron
 High Rock yesterday. Nearly four hundred
 people were present and good time was en
 joyed by all.
 A party of sporting men came over iron the city last evening and going to lonel. : spot near the Four Corners witnessed , , wrestling match for $100 between two New
 Haven characters whose names none of thu party would reveal It is understood tha
 the match was declared draw.