Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-19
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

Bright Looking Cars-The Improve
 ment of Hill Street-Settlins the
 Quarrymen's Strike-Captain CrOss- Ieyss New Vessel-The Railroad Fer ry-It Will be an Exciting Ball Game - Incandeseent Lights for Grand Avenue-Mr. Hurd's "Dukeo Personal News. Professor w. J. Rohan, leader of the | choir of St. Francis church, is at Newport to remain two weeks. This morning at 8 o'clock the members of the Quinnipiac Hose company of the Fair Haven East fire department will sail on the sound, starting from Mansfeld's s dock.
 Newly painted car No. 43 was put on the depot branch yesterday. Nos 43 and A are both spick and span and look like new rolling-stook. It is probable that l open cars will run on the Branch" next | summer.
 There was petition signed by twenty one individuals sent to the selectmen for the improvement of the roadway of Hill street, Annex. Town Agent Garrity says that with the many demands on the town 1 for highway improvements soon he does not believe that Hill street can receive at tention this year.
 Major H. H. Strong and family are at Martha's Vineyard. 1 Herbert Barnes and family leave for Saratoga to-day.
 l Mir. Marx, who has been substitute as drug clerk at Healy's pharmacy while MT. Kessel was on vacation, is now in Birming- ham. He will have permanent situati on at Wallingford next month. The bible class of ladies, of which Hen l " Barnes is teacher and connected with | the Sunday school of the Grand avenue Baptist church, will have an outing at Savin Rock to-day if the weather is suita- ble
 | The uuarrymen on strike in the Annex have decided that the engineers can work ten hours a day if they choose. It is be- | lieved that with that point satisfactorily settled the Messrs. Redfeld will start up l their quarry. The quarrymen have also I decided that union engineers must work ten hours and be paid $2.25 per day, an advance of 25 cents per day. Those who have seen the new schooner George E. Dudley, that was constructed under the direction of Captain Crossley | and launched at Madison Monday night, say she is a beauty and credit to her con- structor.
 If the plan for settling the troubles of the Old Colony Distilleries company are carried out the underwriters will soon re- store the insurance on the buildings. If the plan to run a steam barge for freight cars between Grapevine Point and Belle dock is carried out the proposed tracks for both passengers and freight through River and James streets to the Hartford road near Cedar Hill will be abandoned. But one thing is certain: Fair Haven needs badly some additional street car tracks, especially in East Chapel and Ferry streets.
 The East Rock lodge ball team that is to play the team from Israel Putnam lodge at Pawson park on Thursday, has organized and will put in little practice before the day of the game. The prize is a banner that is now held by the Fair Haven lodge. It is said that the home team does not stand very good show for retaining the banner, as the team from Putnam lodge has been practicing for several weeks. However, the home team will make good game.
 The new wires to supply the incandesent lights in Grand avenue below Olive street have been laid from the companys build ing at Gainesville bridge, and are of suf 2,OO0 lights. When a demand arises a wire can be run through East street to supply five blocks in State street..
 John G. Hurd has his new young horse ''Duke" so broken-in to his newspaper route that he knows all the stops. He will retain the old horse which has done good service so many years for the morning route.
 Rev. A. Douglass Miller, rector of Grace church, has returned from his vacation that has been spent in Newtown and New York state.
 Personal Notes.
 Harry Asher sails from Europe for home next weeek.
 Herbert Forster of this city is visiting the rectory at Bridgewater.
 General George H. Ford and wife sail from Europe for home in about ten days.
 Mrs. T. G. Pitman is spending few days in Madison, visiting her sister, Mrs. Dowd.
 Miss Emma Beach of West Chapel street is spending couple of weeks with friends in Brooklyn.
 Attorney Charles H. Hayden has gone to Suffeld, Conn.,, where he will spend the next two weeks.
 President Charles P. Clark of the Con- solidated road will arrive in New York on the Majestic, which is expected to-day.
 Maier Zunder and family have returned from Saratoga, and ex-Selectman Feldman returns from Lake George next week.
 Messrs Post, Bodwell, Hopton and Hall from New Haven will stay a week at Saul's Point, Clinton. Post will play the reveille on his cornet.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. W. Kennedy and daughter, Miss Eleanor, have been visiting at the Congregational parsonage of As petuck, this state.
 William F. Clark of the New York Her aid, formerly of the Union, is spending 8 few days with his parents at their cottage at Sunset Beach.
 Miss Ella E, Reed, Mrs. William L. Rous- seau and A. J. Rousseau of Worcester, Mass, are visiting at Louis Hammond's home on Whalley avenue. Thomas F. F.Shanley, Daniel Stamford and Thomas McGuinness have returned after two weeks camping experience at John sons Point on the east shore. Mir. McNeil, of Lyme Rock, Conn.,, is entertaining Miss Helen D. Coburn of 36S Whalley avenue, this city, his great grand child. She will remain the rest of this month.
 Miss Kate Donovan and Miss Carrie O'Neil, both of Providence, R. l., are spending couple of weeks with Mrs. Sherdman, wife of Engineer Sherdman, of steamer 8.
 The engagement is announced of Joseph Shoninger, or the firm of B. Shoninger & Co.,, to Miss Tillie May of New York city. Miss May is the daughter of Henry May of that city and 8 sister of Professor Charles May of Columbia college. MT. Shoninger has been for six or eight years manager of the Chicago house and western connections of the firm.
 TWENTY-ONE. Anniversary at Stony Creek. On the occasion of the twenty-fist birth day of MT. Harry Jepson, organist of