Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-11
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

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Gas LeakA-A Plucky Lady Driver
Instructive Talks to Young Men.
Seven candidates took the degrees in
Columbia castle, Knights of the Golden
Eagle, at the meeting Tuesday evening".
There are also three applications for mem
bership.
The tennis club of the Y. N. @. A. has
adopted bylaws and is now in running
order. A match between the members has
been arranged for the morning of Memorial
day at o'clock. The game will be played
on the east side tennis court.
Early in the spring when the ground was
frozen hard the gas company attempted to
locate leak on East Grand avenue but
were unsuccessful. Yesterday another at
tempt was made and broken connecting
pipe was found which had allowed large
amount of gas to leak into the ground for
months. Late in the afternoon the men
were making second excavation with the
hope of finding another leak.
Four two-tenement houses are under
construction in Main street.
The schooner yacht Phantom Ia moored
off the marine railway ready to be over
hauled. The Phantom is very trim
looking craft.
The Varsity crew were up the river
yesterday morning. The men are show
ing great improvement in their work.
Work at the Adamant Plaster Co.'s plant
is still very brisk, compelling the running
of the mill at night
The wheelmen are now beginning to
take long runs. Frank Ryan has just
made the run to Bridgeport in an hour
and forty-fve minutes, pretty good time
considering the rough state of the roads.
Miss Whitehead come pretty near hav-
ing runaway near the Hemingway Ice
houses, when the breeohing straps of the
harness broke. She was driving a spirited
horse, but by good presence of mind she
held on to the reins firmly, and finally
succeeded in stopping the animal after
quite a long run.
Miss Hettie Bradley of Brooklyn has
been visiting at her home this week. She
is much pleased with her new position as
leading soprano in the choir of Classon
avenue Presbyterian church, Brooklyn.
The attendance at the Grand avenue
school wv. G. Def. Dickinson, principally
for the term that has just opened is about
400, good number for the spring term.
Next Wednesday evening the second of
the instructive talks before the Y. NJ. O.
will be delivered in the rooms on the east
side by Professor A. M. Smith of Grand
Rapids, Mich subject, ''Phrenology." All
young men are invited.
President N. A. Beebe and General Secre-
tary G. E. Steele will on Friday evening
attend T. E. Murphy's lecture on 'John
Bull and Brother Jonathan" in WalliDg-
ford. They will ASCERTAIN also at what
time Mr.. Murphy will deliver the same
lecture before the Fair Haven Y. M. G. A.
Next Sunday afternoon the Y. N. G. A.
meeting will be led by Rev. A. J. Smith of
st. Andrews church.
Miss Edith A. Porter performed the part
of Bridget in the drama given by the guild
of Grace P. E. church with great taste.
Miss Porter was formerly first soprano al
the Grace church, but sings now in the
Church of the Redeemer.
Mrs. Colonel Stevenson of New York
who has been on visit to her daughter
student at Wellesley college, and who
has q son at Yale in the Sheffield Scientific
school, has been visiting her old friends
Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. J. Sizer on Fair Ha
ven Heights, formerly Of Brooklyn, N. Y