The Newtown bee., 1892-02-19

is presented for the benefit of the Masonic Charity Foundation fund. Tues day evening, 23d, the Bridgeport Wheel club will benefit. The attraction will be the great play "Mr Potter of Texas.'' Tuesday, March l, the event of the seas on will occur. It will be called Bun- nelFs anniversary. Sadie Martinot in 'Pompadour" is the great attraction en- gagged. MT Bunnell will have something especial to say; in the meantime, watch the BEE.
 Dr and Mrs F. J. Young are off for Florida.
 Bridgeport's grand list foots up $24,- 9S1, 1885, $869,000 more than last year. Those assessed over $10O,OOO are the P. T. Barnum estate, $670,316; E. c. Bas- sick, $104,35O; Frank Armstrong, $115,- 300; Bridgeport Gas Light Co, $15O, ,O0O; Bridgeport Hydraulic Co.,, $134, ,OOO; Ea- ton, Cole & Burnham Co.,, $1SO, ,OOO; Un- ion Metallic Cartridge Co.,, $226, 400; Wheeler < Wilson Manufacturing Co.,, $385,5OO; John Mulloy, $l2l ,55O; Ran- dall & Perkins, trustees, $l41 ,000; Hen ry Sanford, $l56,250; Warner Bros., $l1O,550; Dr l. DeVer Warner, $l5s, s,5OO; Nathaniel Wheeler, $272, ,O25. Among smaller taxpayers, Postmaster J. w. Knowlton is assessed $19,775; D. N. Morgan, $lS,075; D. N. Morgan and wife, $l4,000; Senator David M. Read, $26,435; P. H. Skidmore, Jr, $3S, 400; L. B. Sterling, $21, ,000; w. B. Hall 6 Co.,, $35, 1000; w. B. Hall estate, $35, ,OOO; {; James w. Beardsley, $lO,7OO; The Cope land Bros. Co.,, $25,O ,OOO; The D. M. Read Co.,, $35, 1000.
 The Festival of Lanterns with which the Y. Nj. c. A. building will open, next week, will be the society event of the Winter. The Baptist ladies will serve a 5 colonial supper, Monday evening, 22d, - the Methodist ladies will have the tables in charge Tuesday and Friday evenings, the Episcopal ladies on Wednesday even- ing, the Congregational ladies on Thurs day evening and Presbyterian and Con- gregational sisters on Saturday evening. There will be band concerts and stage en. , tertainments in the lecture hall, each evening, with sleight of hand perform ances, Punch and Judy shows and stere- optcon views in the boys room under a the direction of Mrs H. H. Scribner. Hon a D. N. Morgan is in charge of one of the , finest collections of works of art ever shown in the city and the whole build ing, brilliantly lighted and bedecked, will be alive with bazars, refreshment and candy stands and all sorts of devices to persuade the sheckles.
 The people of Bridgeport are quick to recognize and appreciate enterprise and :, thrift in their business firms. This is :, shown by the evidences of success that = Jones & Hoffman are displaying these days. Although young men and a young , firm, they have reached position among :, the builders of Bridgeport that many ar :, older firm might envy. Their latest achievement is the erection of a new shoI on William street, that will be one of the best equipped building plants in tho State. The building is 3Sx72 feet, two stories high and is abundantly lighted , with plenty of windows. The secono
 floor and the roof are carried by ca
 trusses, leaving a large clear space fol handling work. The boiler and engine room are lSx32 feet, with dry room overhead about the same size. A 35 B horsepower engine and boiler from the '' Pacific iron works have just been put in besides a 60-horse hot water heater anC the shop is equipped with all the neces sary wood working machinery. The u snaftng is all in the basement, leaving ' no belts to get in the way Record.
 Patrick Haugh, driver for Hunter l. Patchen & Ravens, was hurled to his death at Clinton avenue, last Friday, by t a Consolidated engine, which also ground
 up the horse that he was driving.
 George A. Wells turned over about
 $l30 to the Bridgeport orphan asylum
 the net results at Bunnells of the eXhi
 bition given by Oscar Moore, the little colored prodigy.
 '. Miss Lillian A. Smith of the Prospec, l, street school is to wed F. L. Cogill, fore
 man for Coulter & Mckenzie.
 Fire in barn on Madison avenue, own 6 ed by James Cole and occupied by Graves, d one-armed fruit vender, die about 5000 damage, early Monday z. morning, three horses being sutfocated
 Mrs Melville E. Hall, May and Mrs O.
 A. Hall are on trip South.
 5 Dr and Mrs Robert Lauder are at At lantic City, NJ.
 :. The Read Carpet Co. is to stop making V ingrain carpets.
 The quarterly convention of Good , Templars, in session at PequonnOck lodge room, last week, protested against the !. sale of liquors at the Worlds Fair.
 In 23 months ending December l, 1891 the United States received about ,OO0, ,00O immigrants, sixtieth of our total popu- laton. About a quarter of these million = people spoke English, 237 ,44S; over a third, 3S2, 1000, were of Morse or German . lineage and we'll on toward half, 430, ,000, were of alien race. It begins to be ser ) ious question whether we can assimilate half million foreigners year or wheth-
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