Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-03
FAIR HAVEN.

Conflict of Authorities About The Coral Like Insects That Are Alleged To Eat Oysters-TOmlInson Bridge Question.
 The Quinnipiac base ball nine will play the Fair Haveners at the Clinton avenue grounds July 4th.
 A match game of lawn tennis will be play ed on the lawn tennis grounds corner of Clinton avenue and Grand street on Ju- ly 4 h.
 The cutter Happy Thought sailed for Larchmont yesterday, where she takes part in the Larchmont race.
 Seven extra cars were brought into use on the Fair Haven and Westville road yester day to take people to the Wild West show. About 800 Fair Haveners attended. D. Thurber Salisbury has returned from his trip to Colorado, feeling much improved in health. His brother Lloyd expects to take trip to the Adirondacks soon. The Vixen base ball nine are anxious to play the Heavy Hitters of Fair Haven. The captain of the Vixens is Thomas Hackett, of 61 Carlisle street.
 The festival of the Grand street Baptist church held at the Quinnipiac rink Wednes- day evening netted handsome sum.
 The Second Congregational church will probably picnic at High Rock Grove about the middle of August
 Driver John Fahy denies the statement that he has resigned his position on the horse cars or that he has been offered ap- pointment as letter carrier.
 The members of the First church will hold a special missionary meeting in their chapel next Sunday evening.
 The Grand street sewer was completed yesterday afternoon.
 William Rodman, diver employed by Beatty at Leete's Island, examined the center pier of the Quinnipiac bridge recently and found that several large stones had been knocked out of the northeast corner. This part of the pier will be rebuilt immediately and MT. Beatty will commence work on it as soon as he finishes work on the piers Of the Shore Line railroad bridge.
 Captain Caleb L. Luddington, of the firm of LuddinGton & Palmer, oyster dealers, says that "the brown ceral-ike insect discovered by H. 0. Rowe is natu- the young oysters are healthy and vigorous" He claims that the appearance of those erowths in the oysters is not new in New Haven waters, for it has often been the case that the finest oysters taken from Morris Cove, fat and of excellent flavor, had the same growth on their young shells and oys- termen were always glad to see them. MT. Luddinqton further says that he saw the same sort of growth on young oysters in Delaware Bay years ago, and has carefully examined the specimens placed by MT. Rowe in the rooms of the shell fish commissioners, and knows what he is talking about. More over, well-posted oystermen concur entirely with him in his diagnosis of this case, and laugh at the idea that Mr. Rowe has discover ed anything new in connection with oyster growing. He says incidentally that the crus- tacean known as f'fve-fngers' is not the destructive creature represented by ignorant oyster cultivators, and that the real injury to the oystersis done by the ''ten-fngers."
 Contractor Redfeld says in reference to the aIlaoed filing in of a sluiceway atTomlinson's bridee that he put in over fifty yards, and that was put where the contract demanded it should be- His contract says that he shall put all stone unfit for masonry ''on each side of the river," and that he shaw take the stone out only four feet below lol
 'nter mark between the two east piers. Mr.
 e;iiield also says that his contract calls for dredging fifteen feet below low water mark between the draw piers and between the east