Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-25

obedience of Christ. He was a man O
 prayer. He loved his work, and had tn
 spirit of his master, and like him went abou
 doing good. His mental epdowments kep
 quick and active, and his reading was that ol
 one ever seeking after knowledge. His Ia
 bors in the churches which he had served l were followed by gracious results. Rev. Mir. Marvin said: It may be said of
 my Brother Cleaveland that he lived an ear
 nest, conscientious life, fully consecrated to
 his calling, not simply as profession, but
 as loyal service to Christ. His genial life | and winning ways made ineffaceable impres- 1 sions upon many who sat under his ministry I and were led to Christ through his faithful l ness. From the day he and I entered college 1 together. forty-six years ago, though our l fields of labor were often widely separated, the ties of college life were never sundered. The same forbearance and the same courtesy which received from him he bestowed upon others and endeared himself to those who ] came under his charge. He was scholarly, critical, sound in the faith, an ernest pastor and loving husband and father The music was by the United church ouar tettee, whose selections were we'll rendered. The bearers were Deacon l.. s. Punderson, Judge E. I. Sanford, Judge J. D. Sheldon, John G. North, Dr.Stephen Hubbard, Henry G. Newton and James M. Townsend and Charles Walker. The interment was in the Grove street cemetery
 The City Missions.
 MT. John 0. Eastman of New Haven will speak at English Hall, corner of Court and State streets. in connection with the peoples service tomorrow evening. Singing from Gospel Hymns from 7:30 to 7:45 pm. After meeting open to all.
 Any who are are willing to be enrolled on the reserve corps of Sunday school teachers to assist occasionally during the summer ia the absence of some of the regular teachers, are requested to send name and address either to Rev. Mir. Mossman, general superin- tendent, or to MT. L. W. Cleaveland, super intendent of the Sunday school department at English Hall.
 
 BOARD OF EDUCATION.
 Contracts For she Lawrence Street
 school -Elihu Larkins, Bates A
 Townsend and Foskett < Bishop the
 Lowest Bidders.
 The board of education last night opened the contracts for building the new Lawrence street school. Elihu Larkins was the lowest bidder on the carpentering, SIS, ,025; Bates & Townsend on the masonry, $14,30O; Fos- kett & Bishop on the plumbing, $1,131, and Wolcott & Go. on the painting, $623. This makes total of $25, 5,456. The following gives all the bids:
 Oarpentering- -Elihu Larkins SIS, ,025, Hub bell, Merwin & Son $13,O97, James A. Church SIS 327, McWilliams & Arthur $13,- 4s5, Charles D. Loveland SIS, ,s65 and David H. Clark $14,ss7.
 Masonry-Bates St Townsend $14 300, George M. Grant $14, Ar, Patrick Msher $14, 49O, Smith & Sperry $14,6OO, John Hogan $16. sos, Arthur B. Treat $17,75O.
 umbiug-Foskett & Bishop $1,131, Joseph H. Buckley and Daniel F. Kelley $1,- 215 each, Roqrke Bros. $1 ,4ss;
 Painting-Wolcott & Co. $623. T. 0. ". Jefferson $931. E. R. Jeffcott $963, Platt & Thompson S1, ,0S5.
 The contracts were not awarded last even- ing, but the bids were referred to the build- ing committee with power.
 A bid was made by Smead & Northcott of Elmira, N. Y., for heating apparatus for S, ,75O, guaranteeing that the average tem- perature in the rooms would be 75 degrees, and that it would not vary degrees in any part of the rooms. The volume of air would be changed every fifteen minutes.
 Mary E. Kelly, teacher in room No. 5 HalIock school, sent in her resignation to the board and it was laid over, to be voted on at the next meeting.
 The board voted to accept Prof. Jepson's invitation to attend the oratorio of "Elijah," to be given at the St.John street Nj. E. church next Wednesday evening.
 The matter of selling the Whiting street school premises came up. MI. Leigh thought 8 site for new school should be selected in the vicinity of Crown street. This would do away with the Whiting street, Far street and the German English schools, and also take the overflow from the schools in the other districts. The committee will get the refusal of piece of property for building purposes.
 Meriden's Ex-Mayors' Anniversaries.