Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-15
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

in California Captain Smiths
 Flower Patch - Life Savers at the
 Drawbrldges-TwoD Deaths.
 The Twelfth Ward Republican club, of which William Killoy is president, has
 The membership is forty, there having
 been an addition of twenty-s members at the last meeting. President Killoy says he expects to have an enrolment of 100 be- fore election day. The club is to locate in permanent quarters, and the committee on quarters have several places under ad-
 visement. It is probable the quarters will
 be on Grand avenue in the block bounded
 by James street and Blatchley avenue. The
 plan is to provide the quarters with the
 daily newspapers and campaign literature.
 It is proposed to keep up the club organi-
 zation until the presidential election by
 holding meetings once a month. The
 Twelfth is among the first of ward clubs to
 organize, and the enterprise promises to
 prove @ success.
 Dr. Henry J. Stevens, Dr. Edwin c. M.
 Hall and Mrs. John Futile are owners of
 land in the tract of 21 ,000 acres that Sen
 ator James Graham bought near Redlands,
 Cal. Their holdings are as follows: Dr.
 Hall, 40 acres; Dr. Stevens 20 acres and
 Mrs. Futile 10 acres This tract is ten
 miles from Redlands and irrigation is fur
 nished by ten-inch pipe. This supply is
 from Bear lake valley, where reservoir
 has been formed, one by three miles in
 area in the mountains three miles abov
 Redlands. The reservoir was built by a
 big dam thrown across the outlet of one of
 the mountain valleys and holds back an
 immense body of water sixty feet in
 depth. It has been calculated
 that this reservoir will hold three years supply of water both for irriga- ting and municipal purposes for both Redlands and the Graham tract, if it was not over re-supplied by rain. The Ora ham tract is twelve by four miles in area
 and is well adapted for fruit raising. A highway 120 feet in width to connect this tract with Redlands has been laid out It is intended in the future as the Graham tract is developed to use the present water
 main for supplying the town and build a
 larger main or drain for irrigation. As a result of the rapid increase in values at Redlands, it may be stated that unim- proved farm lands are held at $500 per acre. The Fair Haven investors in the Graham tract bought at much less rate and promise to realize on their investments
 goodly returns.
 Captain Treadwell Smith for a number of years has cultivated small flower patch at the precinct. For several years he has raised @ very fine variety of dahlias This year he has turned his attention to pansies and the plot has reared myriads of these vareigated blooms during the season. The plot is still beautified with these blos-
 soms the frost having spared them. Capt. Smith several years ago set out small elm | tree on the grass plot, which has attained already to considerable size. The cap- l tain has knack for taking care of things at the precinct building and the grounds are model of order and neatness.
 Tomlinson and Quinnipiac bridges are each to be provided with dingy, life lines and ladders leading from the bridges to the l boat landings. Draw Tenders Powers and Futile know how to handle boats, and in case of accidents each would prove an eff. cient life saving service man. With these appliances at the Quinnipiac drawbridge last fall it is believed that the two victims who walked into the open draw would have been saved.
 | Catherine Jennette, wife of Captain John G. Hervey, died yesterday at her home, 65 Chambers street, at the age of fifty nine years. She had been i'll long time and had suffered very much. Her husband, who survives her, was for many years cap tain of the schooner Ouitra, and is a we'll known retired sh1pmaSter. The family of Daniel Rowe, the retired
 druggist, have been again afflicted in the
 death of daughter, Finette Amelia Rove, which occurred at her home, 80 Clinton
 avenue, yesterday. Some five years ago
 MT. and Mrs. Rowe lost another daughter,
 and now they have been bereaved by the
 loss of their only child.
 Delegates from the Baptist church to
 the state convention of the denomination
 held in Middletown yesterday were Rev.
 and Mrs. E. c. Sage, Mr. and Mrs. John McGregor, J. P. Morrow.
 Thomas Heenan is enumerating for the school census in the Twelfth ward Bertha, daughter of F. w. Foley of Fer ry street, gave birthday reception to her little friends Sunday afternoon. It was her seventh birthday anniversary.
 A very pleasant time was enjoyed Mon- day night at the residence of w. E. Nor gan, Grand avenue, by the Monday Night club" Among those present were the Misses Estella Darton, Edna Gates, Hattie
 Waterbury, Essie North, Lizzie Thomp-
 son, Masters George and Willie Morgan,
 Frank Hubbard and Willie Chase. Games
 and dancing were enjoyed until late in the
 evening,