Morning journal and courier., 1891-07-09
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

h | Steam .Hoisting Gear for the Schooner
 HanscOm-PrOgress on the New
 Three-Master-Saw the Big Raft
 snowdakes in July-The Grace
 Hospital Fund-Mr. Heln Still Has
 Faith in His Running Horse-Fair
 Haven People at the. Regatta-Mr.
 ROdvwelps sPluck-Improvtng . Store
 A Pretty Good Oyster Story.
 The schooner H. H. Hanscom is at Fall | River, Mass, discharging coal. She will | sail for Philadelphia to load with coal for this port and after discharging will come up to one of the wharves just above the Quinnipiac drawbridge to receive some i'm provements, chief among which being steam hoisting gear for raising the heavy sails and hoisting anchors. This will cost about 5000. Heretofore the crews have object ed to the hard work of hoisting the heavy
 sails by hand and have frequently made
 trouble by leaving the vessel.
 At Hanscom's yard there are twenty men
 at work on the new three-master and the
 work of ceiling the hull will begin next
 week. The schooner Beecher is loading at Brunswick, Ga, with hard pine lumber to l put into the new vessel and upon arrival a
 large gang of men will be employed in the
 construction To-day the members of Hiram Camp di- 1 vision, Sons of Temperance, and their
 friends will go on the steamer John H. Starin to Glen Island. >, Many of the local oystermen observed l the big raft from Nova Scotia that passed
 through the sound bound to New York,
 Monday evening. The raft contained is3, ,500, 900 feet of timber. The huge mon
 ster was lowed very slowly, owing to its
 immense weight.
 It is seldom that snow falls in July in this latitude, but few flakes are reported
 to have sifted down from the clouds just
 as the wind squall set in Sunday after
 noon. There was not enough of the ma
 terial for it to be generally observed, but
 several persons insist that they saw few
 flakes.
 Dr. c. B. Adams, one of the incorpora-
 tors of the Grace homeopathic hospital, is
 very enthusiastic over the success of the
 directors in securing the state appropria-
 tion and large fund raised by subscrip- tion. He says the future of the project is very bright and that the hospital will un-
 doubtedly be opened within year.
 Conrad Hein is not discouraged by the
 failure of his running horse to score suc-
 cess on the Fourth of July, but says that | make better record. He believes that if ) the horse had not been frightened last Sat. urday at tue Elm City park, when he bolt ed over the fence, he would have made 6 mile in very fast time.
 , There was large party of Fair Haven people on steamer Elm City which followed r the boats over the course at the annual re ) gatta of the New Haven Yacht club yes terday. Others went down on sharpie' ) and other craft. Although there was ne Fair Haven vessel owned in the fleet O 5 yachts, there was Fair Haven built craft the Mariota, formerly the Happy Thought w. P. Tyler, one of the energetic and push 7 ing members of the regatta committee, ant 3 R. B. Farren, one of the judges, are Fai t Haven residents.
 Engineer Willis Bodwell, who unfortu t nately fractured his knee pan for the sec t ond time last Saturday, still maintains tn |, hopefulness that characterized his first ac cident, although he is likely to be disable' : for the next six months, 8 Conductor Burwell, formerly of the Fai : Haven road, is now on the West Havel D horse railroad line.
 k The building of new front to the stor U corner Grand avenue and East Pearl street
 recently occupied by Smith Granniss, vii 0 greatly improve the building. The re g modelled store will be occupied by Hill t house, the druggist.
 l. Here is good oyster story chronicle n by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: s Oysters frequently reach great old age D The ridges or water lines on the shell indi o cate the number of years until they get be g yond forty; then the lines are wider an D indicate period of ten years. I once say
 an oyster eighty-six years old. It wa > caught in Delaware bay four years age y That oyster had intelligence. put it in ). tank of salt water and it opened and shu y itself up, as if enjoying bath. One da d I put the oyster on plank by itself in ol d der to study it's shell with microscope y It lay there dead and dumb-ike. I steppe n aside to wait on a customer who wante a Blue Points, The tom cat walked up t
 the oyster and began to turn it over wit @ it's paws. Suddenly the bivalve opened it l: shell and caught the cats tail. The ca # bounded off like a rocket, pumping tn n oyster against the pavement. The octoge e marian chung to the cats tail. 1 never sa' @ the cat or the oyster again.