Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-10
IMPROVEMENTS COMING
At Grand Avenue Congregational Church, Fair Haven Various Jot- tfnge of Interest.

At Grand Avenue Congregational Church, Fair Haven Various Jot- tings of Interest.
 Owing to the large increase of atten dance at the Grand avenue Congregational church, Fair Haven, additional seating room is demanded, and the church people, after looking the field over, have hit upon plan that will accomplish the desired purpose and at the same time much i'm prove the appearance of the church. The old rows of seats in the galleries are to be taken away, and in their place will be sub stituted rows of orchestra chairs of supe-
 rior make and attractive design. This will
 be decided improvement. The chairs
 will, moreover, be constructed in defiance to the old idea which prevailed not so very long ago, that seats at church must be 50 hard and severely unattrac- tive as to make sitting in them sort of penance. These seats will be so constructed as to be invit- ing, restful and comfortable. The church committee feel that they are doing noth- ing reprehensible in providing easy seats and that there is no danger of the occu- pduGS UcluS luu6o GO SlSep Wulle OCCupy- ing them, or of even being tempted into dozing. The reason of their feeling of se- curity in this matter is the wide-awake at tention everywhere manifest in the
 church, even among the giddy young peo- pie when the pastor breaches, for he somehow has won the hearts of all classes and is able to keep all interested on what he is saying. Hence the committee who have charge of ordering the new orchestra
 chairs are not disturbed by any fears as to
 the wisdom of providing easy and welcome l new seats in place of the present old style bersome in the galleries. Meanwhile the | church committee is cheered by the pros ! poets that the new seats thus to be pro- vided will be immediately rented, or at
 least the great majority of them, and that
 the exchequer of the church will gain con- | siderably in shekels by the change
 But this is only one change to be made | at the church. Another is in the line of | new gas fixtures, which are to be substi- tuted for the present ones at no distant | day; but in order that the congregation | may not be troubled with Embarrassment of riches," the new gas fixtures will come
 later. It should be added, however, that | the prime cause of the delay is the lack of sufficient funds at present.
 Another change of note which will in- terest Fair Haveners and many in New Haven is that the church has decided to
 re-engage as organist, George Robinson. MT. Starr, the present incumbent of the | organist's desk, goes to another field. He | was engaged only for few months to fill out the balance of the year, having other places in view. The coming return of Mir. Robinson is hailed with great pleasure in the church as he was always favorite there. This will neces- sitate the engagement of new organist at the United church to fill Mir. Robinson's
 present place as organist. Another most gratifying thing at the church is the sue cess of the effort to retain Miss Hettie
 Bradley, the popular soprano, who it was
 feared would be obliged to accept higher
 bid made for her services from another
 church. The effort was highly successful
 through the spontaneous iberality of many
 who love fine singing and as result Miss
 Bradley remains for the ensuing year, in her present position. es: