Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-10-13

Captain Seaman's New Schooner -
Hunting-Other Items of Local Inter.
est-A New Oyster Enterprises.
The new schooner that is building at
Hanseom's shipyafd for Captain Seaman
will be ready for launching about December
list. The vessel will be all closed in by next
week and some of the spars have arrived.
To-day Mr.. WEIGH, one of the owners and q
member of the firm of Welch & Eastman of
Charleston, S. c., is expected here to
visit with Captain Seaman. The initial trip
will be to Charleston, where Captain Sea-
man expects to eat dinner New Years day
About half dozen Fair Haven gentlemen
are expecting to accompany the captain on
his first trip, which will be after railroad
ties. The vessel will require q crew Of nine
men to manage her and it is expected that
she will prove one of the fastest three-masted
schooners in the eoaHting trade. She will
carry nearly $500 yards of canvas and has
lines like those of huge yacht.
Game is quite plentiful now in the woods
about here, although the warm weather de-
tains many sportsmen from getting out as
hunting at high noon is anything but cool
pastime. However. large numbers of gunners
go out every morning and catch lots of quail,
partridge and yellow hammers. DR.. Bush
nell has just returned from weeks hunting
at Clinton and Westbrook and had remark
able luck. Mr.. Edward Easter and family
and several friends are camping out at Lyme
and are having a irst-class time hunting and
fishing
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs Charles
Burwen will extend their heartfelt sympathy
to them in the loss of their daughter Agnes,
a bright, interesting little miss who was be-
loved by all who knew her.
The ladies of the w. G. T. U. Melted 1924
from their recent supper at Todds block.
On account of the sewer that is building
at Haven street patrons of the horse cars are
obliged to change once in coming to town.
The work on the horse car barns has pro-
crossed rapidly in the past few days and
they will probably be completed by the time
the double tracks are finished. The latter
have now extended to GAINESVILLE bridge
both ways excepting a little patch between
Blatchley avenue and Atwater street.
A. M. Morris, of New York, is erecting
tenement block on James street in the rear
of Conroy's new brick block.
The Fair Haven Athletic club is in -four
ishing condition and is gaining in member
ship more rapidly than ever. The club held
an enthusiastic meeting and voted to hire
Central Hall for a gymnasium. This ar
rangement will be for the coming winter at
any rate and then it can be determined
whether not it will be best to continue
with the hall secure other quarters, per
haps in building of their own. Central
Hall is remarkably fitted for gymnasium
and is the place where Uncle Willis Bunnell
made his greatest record as walker cover
ing $50 miles in six days. The club is soon
to give select entertainment at the QUINN
piac skating rink
The place at the Quinnipiac bridge where
a son of George W. Chadeayne was knocked
into the water by the draw has not yet been
repaired.
The lower end of Ferry street is being re-
paired and the road roller is at work there.
In the Annex, too, the roadways are being
put in first class shape, the improvements on
Farren avenue being particularly noticeable.
East Haven will be full of music and stran-
gels tomorrow, when the big band tourna-
ment takes place. The preparations for the
festivities are going on finely and over three
hundred musicians are to be banqueted. Mr..
Lyman Granniss is to be chief marshal of
the day.
Selectman l. E. Brown has been to New
York to find boiler suitable to place in a
thirty eight-foot sharpe which he built some
time ago. The little steamer is to be used by
the New Haven Oyster company, which has
been organized with capital stock of $685.,
900 for the purpose OF packing oysters at In
dian River, Fla. The company is to put up
a number of buildings and expects to begin
shipping oysters north by January 1. The
creeks and rivers of Florida are full of oys-
tiers of a large size and excellent flavor. The
best method of packing them for shipment
is to steam them, a very simple process and
least. One or two Fair Haven men have
already made quite good deal of money in
this enterprise, but the New Haven Oyster
company is the first organization to go into
the business on large scale. A prominent
Fair Haven FISHERMAN said over year ago
that more money could be made in Florida IN
a week than there could in a month at home.