Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-29
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

rhe Quinnipiacs and the Firemen Pa-
 rade-work by the Atlantic Distii-
 lery Company Personal Jottangs-
 More New Building.
 The Atlantic Distillery company will pe- gin business in its newly acquired property near Barnesville bridge-the old Porter stalr shon-about October 1. The buildings have hssp placed in first. class condition, and the entire expenditure on plant and apparatus will amount to S25, ,000. From the refuse of the distillery stock the compressed yeast IS to be made. The capacity of the works will be 6,OOO gallons of spirits and 2,5O0 pounds of yeast per day. Coopers are now at the dis tillery setting up the vaults. Two tanks, each of a diameter of sixteen feet, are in DO" sition, and twenty-five more are ready to be put together.
 Thursday evening the members of Quinni- piao hose company and the hook and ladder company will proceed in horse cars to State and Elm. Preceded by Bunnell's drum corps the hremen will then march to the Insurance building to participate in the veterans" pa' rade.
 Samuel Meeker of Flushing, L. l., is wis., iting his brother -in-law, Supt. William A. Waterbury of Grand avenue.
 Alvin Ames has conveyed to Frank &. doodale oyster lot No. 67 on the old East Haven reserve, containing 74-100 acres.
 The Sunday school room in St. James, church has been newly painted and the effect is very satisfactory.
 Noonan have returned from @ vacation that was passed at their old home in Terryville and at Block Island.
 Rev. Benjamin l.. Swan made short visit here this week. He is about eighty years of age, is quite hale, and breaches oc- casionally. His present home is in New
 Jersey. In 1886, when the First Congrega- tional society occupied the building that is now the Grand avenue school, MT. Swan be- came pastor. He was succeeded by Rev. MT. Staats, and then came Rev. Dr. Hart's first term.
 Arthur Hemingway is home from Block
 Island. The reported "narrow escape from drowning while bathing of @ Mir. Barnes of New Haven" is believed to refer to Arthur D. Barnes, son of Herbert Barnes of the East side, who has been stopping at the island. He is known to have besn enjoying the surf bathing on the day in question. Dr. O'Connor was one of the party who saved Barnes.
 Miss Bessie L. Crawford and Miss Lucy A. Griswold have returned from Bellows Falls,
 Vermont, where they soiourned for five
 weeks.
 Fred A. Moultbrop and wife have returned to their home in Torrington. Ernest O. Rowe has received photograph of Wallace Spencer, a Fort Edward wheel man, whom he met on his recent long dis
 tance bicycle trip. Spencer, though quite young, has won several medals, which in the picture are displayed on his coat. Luzerne Barnes has caught the biggest | bass taken in the river this season. It was captured at the railroad bridge and weighed 21k pounds. $. R. Blatchley is preparing the founda- tions for now building on Grand avenue just east of Blatchley avenue. It is to be 30 by 40 feet, one story, and will be used for O store. William Hardy will dc the joiner work. The building will cost about $1, 700. The two lots directly eas, have been built up the past year. One build ing is the fine three-story brick structure erected by Frank w. Foley; the other is the frame building just finished by Fred. Fis- cher.
 John McKone will build a two.story frame house on the east side of James street, near Wolcott. The dimensions are 22 by 45 feet with wing feet wide on south side. The undsrpinning will be brick, also basement piers. First story is to be feet inches and second story 8 feet inches. Wm. J. Healy will do the joiner work.
 Mir. Henneeey, the boiler maker at Bige- lows, on the night of the fire gave his fire arm key to his son and told him to turn in the alarm. The boy was unable to comply, as the brass key had become so much worn by ten years wear in Mr. Hepnesey's pocket that it would not fit the box. Another key was then procured and the alarm sounded. Ernest c. Rowe, with three other members of the New Haven Bicycle club, rode to Meri- den and return on their wheels Sunday. They dined at the Winthrop. They did the forty miles without apparent fatigue, and half the way up MT. Rowe rode without holding to the steering bar.
 Mir. and Mrs. James A. Thorpe are at the White mountains.
 Mir. and Mrs. A. J. Dresser of Worcester arc visiting Mr. and Mrs. William B. Gran hiss.
 O. B. Smith will spend his vacation in Branford.
 A. party of nine, who are to enjoy fish
 ing trip of ten days at Block leland, include William II. Granniss, Walter Jacobs, Frank
 Martin, D. c. Burwell, Victor Saunders, Joseph Jacobs and Alfred Wilcox.