Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-03
FAIR HAVEN NEws.


 yen River = Captain Crossley's ! Funeral Delayed-Hfs Injuries Very l Serious-A Btg Coal Pocket-Lfttle | Business for the Police-The G. A. R. Excursion - Many Families MOve-Dr. Th0mson,s Return-Re. vival of Busincss at the Oyster Shops-The W. 0. T. U.
 The first annual picnic of the New Ha- ven Gun club will be held at Mansfeld's grove, East Haven River, on Friday. The families of the sportsmen will also attend. Dinner will be served at 3 p. m., and inn mediately afterward sweepstake shoot will occur. The party will go down on the steamer Messenger.
 Captain Will Crossley, in the schooner Robert Morgan, arrived at Philadelphia Tuesday, when he learned of the death of his father, Captain William C.. Crossley, at Madison. Captain John Crossley in the schooner Mansfield was expected to arrive in Boston last evening. The youngest daughter of the deceased shipmaster, with lady friend, is on board the Mansfield. The funeral was delayed untif these three children could arrive.
 Mrs. Ebenezer Lane is dangerously i'll with heart trouble at her home in East Pearl street.
 The late Benjamin Moves was one of the projectors of the Fair Haven water works and of the F. H. & W. H. R. R. Work on Hanscom's new three masted schooner goes on rapidly. The ceiling is completed and work on the deck beams will soon begin. 4-s. s- .-- Andrew Sproul, who recently fell from ,s,.5 e4o at the hospital, is not expected to recover, having sustained severe internal injuries.
 The big coal pocket of M. Spier 6 Co. l near Gainesville bridge is nearly completed, the workingmen now being engaged in | putting on the roof. The pocket will hold 5, ,000 tons of coal An addition to their | equipment is three horse wagon that will l carry five tons of coal The east side police report business very l dull in their jurisdiction, not having made 1 arrests even for drunkenness in the past three weeks.
 l Quite number from Fair Haven will gc | on the G. A. R. excursion to Glen Island to-day, including Mir. and Mrs. H. ". .Craw ford, Mrs. Jared Sanford and Mrs. Willet Barnes of Baltimore, who is visiting here Quite O number of families have been moving since the month set in. The mum ! Der is said to have been much larger than usual for September.
 Dr. William H. Thomson, who has beer on his vacation the past month, returned yesterday afternoon. He is in fine healtf and we'll Drowned from exposure to the Canadian sun. He is a member of the Tourilh Fishing club, which has a mem bership of thirty-two; of this number only seven are Canadians. The club has lodg, on the Tourili river, branch of the St Anns, and has @ lease of G. 900 square mile of territory for hunting and fishing. Dr Thomson has had a surfeit of fishing, thi being the best outing he has ever had
 His largest fish weighed two and three quarters pounds, although trout weighing
 three to four pounds are taken in the river It was no uncommon thing for the docto ! to go out on the river and catch five dozel
 trout at time. Many small trout tha
 would be called fine fish in these part
 were thrown into the river. Lancraft Bros, Chipman & Co. and A
 B. Barnes began opening oysters oyester yesterday.
 Eight men were counted at one tim
 digging clans in the Quinnipiac river nea
 the railroad bridge on Tuesday. Clam are reported scarce and are likely to brin
 increased prices the coming fall an | winter.
 Five new members will be taken into tn
 Grand avenue Congregational church Sun
 day afternoon.
 There are three patients at the in6rmar
 on the Fair Haven heights.
 At the headquarters of the W. c. T. U. | corner of East Pearl street and Grand ave
 nue, the union will give an entertainment ) this evening. Following is the program: 1 Music--John Laden. I Recitations-Masters Charles and Wilbur Hol kins.
 l Recitation-Miss Edna Gum.
 | Dialogue-"Arabella's Poor Relations'-Arabel
 Taylor, Mary Taylor: Joshua Hopkins, Ralp Clarendon.
 Duet-h1iss Jennie Jones and Miss Winnie Kel dric4s.
 Recitation Miss Edith Brooks
 ! Gypsy's Carnival-Composed of fifteen young l, l dies in gypsy costumes.
 ! Chorus-Gypsy club. -"Zingerella"-Gy Jeanette. Duet-"J -"Juaneta"-Gypsies Margaretta and W mona.
 Chorus Moonlight on the Lake," , ! Soio-'The Gypsy's Warning"-Gypsy Jeneatti l Chorus-''BeautifulM Moonlight" l Solo-'Gypsy Jane"-Gypsy Margeretta. | Duet."Gypsy Acknowledgements Jeneatta au : Winona.
 , Chorus-"Come to the Gypsy Carnival" Admission fifteen cents; children undt i twelve, ten cents. Ice cream and cak , will be sold at the close of the entertain
 ment.