Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-08-21
LOCAL NE WIS.
Brief Mention

Brief Mention.
High water to-day at 6:42 p. m.
Invest money in New Haven.-R. E.
Baldwin.
The 21st school year of the Yale Business
College begins Monday, September 4.
City lots exchanged for savings banks
books. CLARK, 121 Church street, Room 10
st. Bonifaee Ladies' lodge will hold its
annual picnic to-day at Schuetxen park.
Fresnius' orchestra will furnish music.
Excursion tickets to Chicago $500, and
$26.40 with stop-over privileges. Morse,
Schroeder & Stock, Room 10, Benedict
building. Open evenings.
Business in the gun department of the
Winchester armory is good and dull in the
cartridge department. Indications point
to an improvement of business In the fall.
Gilbert L. Clock, jr., chief engineer for
the New Haven Electric company, with a
party of dozen friends went out for a
sail on his steam yacht yesterday. They
had a ten-mile trip despite the rain and
waves.
The lighthouse supply steamer Cactus,
bound from New York to New London,
put in at Bridgeport yesterday afternoon
because of the high seas outside, one of the
officers declaring that they ran as high IS
the pilot house of the steamer.
The Branford Congregational church and
Sunday school had merry day at beauti-
full Saltonstall lake Saturday. The steamer
Cygnet made many trips last week In car
rying picnic parties and family parties to
Glen Grove, at the head of the lake.
James L. Root, years ago at the office of
w. T. Hatch & Sons, this city, and for
some time past engaged in the Office of the
Colchester Rubber company, has accepted
a position in the Office of John Mackrille,
auditor of freight receipts of the Consoli-
dated road, at the Union depot.
At the Henry Hooker carriage factory
the working time is now eight hours a day
five days week with a half holiday on
Saturday. At the New Haven Carriage
oompany's three days a week; at B. Man
Vile & Co.'s eight hours day; at A. T.
Demarest's forty hours week.
The Fat Mems association, of which
Judge D. B. Lockwood of Bridgeport was
president for many years, will hold its
twenty-eeventh annual clsmbake at Pleas
ure Beach Thursday, August 81. Charles
E. Munson of pie fame is now president,
and DR.. J. Fanyou secretary. This 1850
citation numbers among It's members nearly
all the heavyweights of Connecticut.
Arnold G.. Dana, son of the eminent
geologist, Prof. J. D. Dana of Yale, has
resigned the position of editor of the In
vestors' Supplement of the Commercial
and Financial Chronicle, held by him for
six years past, and has entered the bank
ing and Investment house of Redmond,
Kerr & Co. of Wall street. He is the
author of q valuable circular of sixteen
pages just issued by his firm.
The steamer Richard Peck arrived on
time at her dock in this city from New
York yesterday afternoon, notwithstand-
ing having encountered very heavy sea
en- route. There was a heavy rainstorm
most of the way up. Last Saturday on
her way up the Peck did not encounter the
Jave,in. The Javelin had enough of trying
before, when, as reports say, she came
near getting sucked under the Peck in
coming too near the big boat.
Are Climbing the Alps.
Henry Hillman, Henry Buchter and
Gotleib Lehr, who are spending the sum-
mer touring in Europe, are at present
among the Alps in Switzerland.