Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-17
rAIK HAVEN NEWS.

Hemingway G Rowe,s New Building
 Adding to q Pharmacy-TheO Oys-
 ter Seed Trade About Over-Excur- |
 sion of the Horse Guard-OG for
 Toronto.
 The Young Mems Glee club has been in | considerable demand of late. Wednesday evening the club sang at St. Andrews church, and Thursday evening at the Ep- worth church. The members are: F. J. and W. Mansfield, George Holt, Henry I. Barnes, Clark Burwell, Walter Clogston, George Chipman, Charles Hughes, Charles Hines, George Ball and Messrs. Griswold and Coates. . -. j
 R. B. Farren, past grand master work man of the New England jurisdiction of the A. o. U. w., leaves to-day for Toronto to attend the annual meeting of the su- preme lodge. The members of the su- preme lodge will be given several excur- sions during the meeting, including trip to Niagara Falls.
 Samuel Gangel, tailor, of 2ss Grand ave nus, has moved to No. 355, and s. Seer has taken the vacated store.
 Benjamin Murphy, watch repairer at 355 Grand avenue, has gone out of the busi- ness.
 A Mrs. Vail of New York. has rented both of H. W. Crawford's cottages at Short Beach for the summer. F. 0. Collett will soon occupy the store at 316 Grand avenue, vacated by J B. Ellis, having rented 1t for five years. MT. Col l lett's grocery Is now few doors to the east.
 Tomorrow evening Rsv. Dr. Sage will hr{o Aa 1e %ha avenue Baptist church.
 MT. and Mrs. G. Clifford Foote have re- turned from their bridal tour, having vis- ited Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing During the past week electric lights have | been placed in Thorpe's grocery store at l the corner of Lloyd and Woolsey streets, | and in Fishers barber shop on Grand ave- l nue.
 The Hemingway & Rowe building on the
 east side is nearly finished, ,snd the tenants will move in in few days. The building
 cost about s. 800.
 An addition of about fifteen feet is being built on the rear of A. H. Barnes drug
 store. It will afford much needed room that is demanded in MT. Barnes increasing | business.
 The twenty or so members from Fair Haven, of the Governors Horse Guard, are looking forward with interest to the third
 annual excursion to be made to New York
 on the Fourth of July by the steamer Con-
 tinentsl. Captain Luzsrne Ludington is a
 member of the general committee.
 A Rookaway sloop was loading with oys- | ter seed yesterday, which will about wind
 up these shipments for the season. Owing
 to the hot weather of late most of the yes
 sels have only partially loaded, as the cap
 tains were anxious to hurry away before
 the seed was injured.
 These recent hot days the shipments oi
 ice by the Consumers Ice company from
 the houses at Hemingway pond has reach
 ed from sixty to seventy-fve tons per day
 materially cutting into the big stores. The crayon portrait of R B. Farren pre-
 scented to East Rock lodge, A. O. U. w..
 Thursday evening, Is on exhibition in the
 show window of Barnes drug store. Ernest Chipman left for Middletown las
 evening to visit friend attending Wesley
 an university.
 The Water Company's New Dam fl Bethany.
 Work on the New Haven Water com
 pany's big new dam is fast progressing The dam in Bethany Is to hold back tn
 water of the big storage reservoir in tha ! F about nine miles from the city hall. Ther are two reservoirs below the new one from which water Is being drawn from. Tn
 dam is to be twenty-six feet thick at tn bottom, aloping to four feet at the top. will be sixty feet high from the bottom 0 the ravine, which 1t crosses, and will g . down through the mud to hard pan. Fac 7 eide will be of solid masonry. but at th center there will be core wall of rubbl ! stone, inte which cement will be run , This will be water tight wall, to proven , any possible disintegration. B The work is now about three quarter 3 done. This is intended to be used as ! | supply reservoir and in times of a reduces | water supply the water will be drawR int 8 the Woodbridge reservoir and then brough l to this city in the 21 and the 24.inc 8 l mains. This reservoir will have supply r Ing capacity of 100, ,000,0 900 gallons. Tn ! l other two on the same line have @ capacit , of 160, 900, 900 and 300, ,O00, 900 gallons re = spectivelY, so that the combined capacit 8 of the West river supply will be 560, 900, 3 900 gallons of water. The new reservoi l will flow 100 acres, and the water shed i t estim ated at about four square miles.
 In order to complete the work the wate t company will have to discontinue piec l of highway that now runs across the nev | reservoir and build section to take 1t place little below the bridge, requirin. the building of @ new bridge. Severa l small houses that were on the line of thu work also had to be removed. The cost of the dam Is something lik $100,00o, and the contract calls for it completion September 1. 0. W. Blakesle'
 & Sons have the contract, and have larg' number of men employed
 An ssOO,OOO Estate.