Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-23
FAIR HAVEN.

The Speed of Oyster Steamers-The Breakwater and the Harbor. Mrs. Benjamin Hines, of Ferry street, is very low with consumption.
 Watchmap Bradley of the watch house on the east side of the harbor recently caught sixty-fve pounds of cells in one day. I A little schooner with porgies from Watch Hill is at the postofice wharf. The whole sale price of the fish is one dollar per barrel. MT. Liefeld has been engaged as organist for the ensuing year at the First church. The cars on the Fair Haven and Westville horse railroad were taken off yesterday and cleaned. Car No. 38 was put on yesterday for the first time.
 Captain Wright of the marine railway says in regard to the statement in one of the even
 ing papers, that his oyster steamer the "Vir- ginian was one of the slowest boats of the fleet, that he is willing to wager $500 that his boat can beat either of the three new steamers in race of no miles; the three steamers to go down the harbor in the morn ing and catch all the oysters they can and he to take on board of his steamer the oysters caught by the other boats; the race then to begin from a certain point in the harbor and to be 1 10 miles long.
 Larry Gallagher, of Fair Haven, died yes terday morning at the age of fifty. A few
 years ago he was worth $20, ,000, but specula-
 tion, the Townsend Savings bank failure and other disappointments drove him to the aims
 house for a time. He leaves wife and fam fly.
 William Wallace Wheaton, ex-Mayor of
 Detroit, who is in Fair Haven, which is his
 native place, has been offered the position of consul general to Canada.
 Henry R. Barnes application for patent for his revolving bookcase has not been acted upon yet, although the application has been filed year.
 Two-year-old seed oysters bring thirty and forty cents this year, which is much small Ter price than last year.
 There are nearly 600 members in the First church, as shown by the canvass
 which committee made recently. The re- vival last winter brought number of new
 members to the church.
 Last evening at the adjourned meeting of the East Grand street Baptist church lively time was made over the resolutions of regret that were expected to be drawn up concern ing the departure of the pastor, Rev. T. E.
 Busfield. A motion was made by one of the
 members to the effect that the recent charges
 made against MT. Busfeld and Editor Jerome
 should be investigated. He was seconded by
 about half of those present. The others
 thought the matter should be left to rest. After considerable talk on both sides the
 resolutions were drawn up.
 The oyster men about town are strongy,
 obiecting to the breakwater in the harbor-
 as it allows deposit of mud and other sedi-
 ment to lodge on their beds. Contractor
 Beattie, of Stony Creek, who has the con
 tract of building the breakwater, said yester-
 day that instead of allowing deposit to
 form on the oyster beds, it will when com
 pleted serve to remove these deposits. It
 will clear away from the channel any depos-
 it's that may occur there, for it will establish
 a current sufficiently powerful to sweep out
 to sea such Judgments. At present the
 channel in the harbor fills up at the rate
 of one inch month. The engi-
 neer who has charge and General
 Newton, for instance, and such em-
 inent men would not have recommended
 any such thing as this breakwater if they
 thought it detrimental to the oyster interests
 or any other interests in this section Of
 course just now the full benefit of the break water cannot be demonstrated to the satis- faction of those who are suspicious of it.
 The west side breakwater must be built first
 and then I think the objectors will be satis-
 fed It will be of the same benefit to the
 New Haven harbor as the Stonington harbor
 breakwater, which is just finished, is to that
 harbor. It will serve just the same pur-
 pose.