Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-27
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.


a Former Pastoral
Tall Steam Chfmney-To Meet His
Old Reeiment-W0rk Resumed mt
the Rubber Shop-Had to Skip His
Vacation at Last-The Guest of His
Old Company-The Typhoid Fever
Cases = Completing the Borough
Grand List. -
To-day, if pleasant, few of the init
mate friends Of Rev. A. FL. Goodenough
of Brooklyn, who is visiting here, will
picnic at South End. The party will con-
sist of about twenty persons, and upon
invitation of William S. johnson they will
go down in his barge.
The wife of John S. Sanford, I'd, who
has been very i'll with typhoid fever, is
no better and her condition ia considered
critical This week she has suffered severe
chills Her infant child is also quite ill
with cholera infantum
Charles w. Hemingway, the borough as
SCISSOR, is busy completing the grand list.
He has visited the Office of the New Haven
assessors this week to obtain data
The big steam chimney of the New Ha-
ven Electric company at the new works
near GAINESVILLE bridge is rapidly growing
in height 1t is to be 100 feet high and
ten and a half feet square at the base A
steam elevator is used in transporting
bricklayers to and from the top, and for
delivering building material. The walls of
the one story fire room are ready for the
corrugated roof, and the stone and con-
crete foundations for the heavy engines are
laid. Foundations for the main building
to be erected on the street line are build
ing. It is expected that the company will
expend about 900 on this plant. For
the lower foundation LOO piles were
| tide level. The next circuit of electric
lights to be changed from 1000 to ], 200
candle power will be the Fair Haven cir
cult The company is preparing for the
change of lamps which will be completed
in few days.
Conductor Lorenzo c. Strickland of the
f. Fl. & w. II. R. r. will go to Palmer,
Mass, to attend the reunion of his regi-
| ment, the twenty sixth anniversary occur
| ing that day. At the meeting last veal
Conductor Strickland was elected presi-
| dent of the Burnside association of the
Thirty-sixth regiment, Massachusetts, Vol
| faithful to it's old commander, whom the
men loved SO well, and which fought with
| valor in the terrible battles of Fredericks
! burg, Antietam and the Wilderness.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McGregor returned
| Monday from a fortnight's vacation trip
| passed with friends in Windsor, Vt, and
| Springfield.
| The rubber shop starts up to-day after
a vacation for the help Of nearly three
| weeks. There are many employees resid
ing in Fair Haven.
1t has been nearly thirty years since
Samuel X. Jones of 1856 Exchange street
the practical painter, has skipped a vaca
ton, but he says it looks as if he would
have to forgo an outing this season, bust
ness presses SO closely. Oftentimes on va
cations Mr.. Jones does little work with
his brush. He says that constant practice
is required by good artist and he relishes
a vacation best with a little work
Conductor Miller of the depot branch Of
the F. H. and w H. R. R. has been exhib
| iting a three dollar bill of Continental
script of 1775. The bill is the property o.
| his mother of Brooklyn, who has been via
| iting him.
Timothy F. Callahan, ex-captain of thu
| Sarsfeld Guard, attended the funeral Of
| the late Major Smith of the Third regimen
at Hartford Saturday, having been well &C
| quainted with that officer. He says it wal
the largest funeral he ever attended, tn,
large attendance of prominent citizens
evincing Major Smiths great popularity
| Saturday evening company of soldiers
| including delegation from the Mont
geometry Guard of Boston-Alderman Cal
lahan being of the party-were handsome
ly entertained by Alderman Patrick Nc
| Govern. Ex-Captain Callahan was a
camp last week. the guest of his old com
mand
Health Officer Wright said yesterday tina
dozen or fifteen typhoid fever cases hat
| appeared in the Eleventh ward. The case
| were for the most part mild ones, and he
did not fear critical results. Several o
the families visited by illness had uset
water from the same well, and he had rea
son to believe that the illness came from
that source He deprecates the use of wei
water when city water can be procured
He proposed to look after the typhoid feve
cases very thoroughly, and does not antici
pate any protracted run of the disease. N,
new cases had been reported to him yes
terday.
Rev. Michael j. Lynch, assistant paste
of ST. Francis parish, will leave Thursday
for Broad Brook, near Thompsonville, t.
assume charge of that parish. He ha
been here over six years and was previous
ly for four years assistant pastor of st
Patrick's, Hartford. His theological
studies were taken at st. Mary's college
Baltimore.
Henry F. Smith, the tailor, who on Sep
TENDER 1 will succeed Lucius Rowe & Co.
has engaged Henry Ellenberger as sales
man and bookkeeper.