Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-09

the worlds record. The best time made heretofore was 2:29 3-5.
 During the evening the wheelsmen en- ioyed the steamboat excursion on the ssSunshine.' around Faulkner's Island and return. The league meeting was held on the boat. THE LAWN PARTY AT THE LAKE A Beautiful Afternoon Brings Many
 People to Lake whitney.
 The second of the series of lawn parties
 which are being given at Lake Whitney by the society ladies of New Haven took place yesterday afternoon. The spot chosen for the purpose is one of the most beautiful groves on the lake, known as the Dicker- man place, on the east side just below the
 lower bridge. --s .~ Beside the driveway from the main road
 the reception committee-Mrs. H. Grant
 Thompson and Mrs. Colin McCrea Inger- | soil, assisted by Mrs. William K. Town
 send and Mrs. John K. Beach-received
 the invited as they arrived In the corner
 of the grove was placed small pavilion,
 under which Mrs. E. Hayes Trowbridge, 1 jr., assisted by Mrs. Professor Knapp, pre-
 
 l furnished music for the occasion. Even before o'clock, the time announced in the invitations, people began to arrive, and little later one would have thought that all of New Haven's four hundred were pres ent
 The last tea was a.much greater success in point of attendance than the frst and the affair even more brilliant.
 It is only due Mrs. H. Grant Thompson to say that much of the success of these teas carf be attributed to her untiring ef- forts. Among those present were the following: Professor and Mrs. Richards, Miss Richards, Prof. Townsend, Col. and
 MS, Rutherford Trowbridge, Mrs. Thomas
 R. Trowbridge, Dr. and Mrs. Foster. Dr.
 Ring, Prof. and Mrs. Bailey, Miss
 Bailey, Miss Weir, MT. and Mrs. William Farnam, MT. George Far
 nam. MT. Mason Hopgin, Mrs: nee Miss White of Tallahassee, Florida; the Misses Sargent, Miss White, Professor Brewer, Miss Brewer, Mrs. s. Hartwell Chapman, Miss Marion Ingersoll, the
 Misses Trowbridge, Miss Constance
 Blake, Judge and Mrs. Lynde liar
 rison, Colonel and Mrs. Frank Bigelow, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sargent, Miss Quincy, Miss Perkins of Litchfeld, Miss Hotchkiss, Professor and Mrs. Craw- fOrd, MrS. ClafleS Ter OTeSC, MISS M1lls, Miss Jarvis of Hartford, Miss Hotchkiss and Miss Susan Hotchkiss, Miss Morris, Miss Anderson, MT.
 John K. Beach, Mrs. Arthur
 Wheeler, the Misses Twining, the Misses
 Gridley, Professor Fisher and Miss Fisher, Miss White, Mrs. William Law of New York, Professor and Mrs. Johnson, Cap tain and Mrs. Charles H. TowDshend,
 Professor Knapp, ,Dr. and Mrs. Q. A. Lindsley, Dr. and Mrs. c. P. Lindsley Miss Lindsley,
 Miss Jessie Brown, Miss Dana, Prof. and Mrs. Brush, Miss Brush, MT. Trowbridge Allen, Dr. Daggett, MT. H. Grant Thomp- son, MT. Graham Fellows Thompson, Miss
 Dorothy Trowbridge, Miss Theresa Van
 R. Ingersoll, Mayor and Mrs. Sargent,
 Mrs. Henry Sargent MT. and Mrs. Justus
 s. Hotchkiss, MT. and Mrs. Eli Whitney,
 the Misses Whitney, MT. William Law,
 MT. Crowell, MT. Parker, MT. Hunting ton.
 It is officially announced that the last
 tea will be Saturday, June 20, instead of Monday, 22 as was before intended. June Festival.
 The ladies of the First M E. church who l have in charge the arrangements for the
 coming June festival to be held June Il in
 the ladies' parlor gre hard at work com pleting arrangements for the same and propose to make this the most enjoyable affair of tha kind eyar oivan in the citv