The Newtown bee., 1890-04-04

the city.
 ". N. Disbrow is to build frame cot !, tage on Laurel avenue and Mrs Margaret Mccarthy another on Summer street. | Edward P. Mills has been granted q permit for frame dwelling on Ash street.
 Adolph Rost of East End has the con- tract to tear down the condemned build- ings on State street. The job, already begun, will occupy about six weeks.
 Besides building that new $35, ,000 yes sel, A. J. Beasdsley & Son are busy with repairs, among which are repairs on the dredging machine of the Hartford Dredg- ing Go.
 1 The bus on Seaview avenue stopped it's trips, Sunday night and a petition has been in circulation asking the common council to grade the avenue south from Stratford avenue so that the promised horse railroad line can be laid. J. Norberry has been conducting re- vival services at the Newfield M. E. church, Rev Mir Hallock having been called to Staten Island by the serious sickness of brother.
 Thomas Brophy has moved from Sea- view avenue, having bought grocery business at the corner of Railroad avenue and Main street.
 I. c. Peck is building a six-room cot tage on East Main street, 20x34, for James Smith. It is to have shingled gables and to be shingled on the sides above the first story. MT Peck also has the contract for the woodwork on the three-house three-story block on Myrtle avenue, where John Rutherford will do the mason work. He will also build an $S000 residence for Wesley F. Hayes of Hayes X Betts, near the park at Broad street and Park place.
 l.. C. Osborne has sold to F. and G. West End.
 Webster W. Walker has moved from % Lafafette street to Congress street near the High school building.
 Misses Florence and Natalie Merwin have visited Mrs Neville of Warren street.
 Miss Fanstina Hodges of Waterbury has been for month with Edwin w Hanford.
 c. B. Bulkley, faithful gateman at tho Fairfield avenue crossing at the station has moved from Ann to 8 Summer street.
 Mrs Kate, widow of Frank c. Tuthill who died last week, 47 years old, wa buried at Port Jefferson.
 The Seaside club is to borrow $25, ,0O on mortgage to pay for the new clul house at the corner of State and Lafay cite streets, and 100 bonds of $10O eacl will be issued to members. Work on tn, new club house will be commenced short ly and the club will have rooms in tho Wheeler building pending the completion of it's own structure.
 A class is being formed here to hold { Demorest medal contest.
 While the greatest snowman on earth P. T. Barnum, has been present with his great show in London fairly taking tho old country by storm and, as many of tho newspapers say, filling his pockets witt English gold, how few people know o1 the vast amount of money that he has expended in his swn city filling in all the low land west of Iranistan avenue, about 50 acres. J. II. McNee, with his immense dredging machine, has nearly completed his contract to fill the whole, in some sections the fill being nearly four feet Numbers of people have visited the place and gaZed with wonder at the amount oI filling that has been done in the short Every person coming to Bridgeport should not fail to see this enormous un dertaking, which will cost over $100, ,000 AS soon as practicable, all this land vii be put in fine condition, and, in few short years, as many of the same people again visit the place, they will look prob ably, at many fine residences, with beau tiful green lawns, and macamized streets and will wonder that any one persor could have attempted to not only reclaim the ground, but, without any regard fol cost, put it in such fine condition. Bridge port may well feel proud of her P. f Barnum, not the father of his country but of her.
 Prospects for building in Bridgeport this season, are said to be unusually good. Not many contracts have beel let, but the offices of the architects arr full of plans and specifications. As on, builder says, "People won't give you al order until the last minute and then the, want you to rush it up so that they cal move in the next day"
 Morris B. Beardsley is judge of thu probate court and has been elected to tn, office he holds for many consecutive terms almost without opposition. He il