Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-12
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

FAIR HAVEN NEWS. Poor Prospect for the Ice Harvest-
 Religious Serv1ces-A $13 1000 Com
 tract- Great Dynamite CharGes-I
 Band Concert To-night-Business at
 tho Wire Goods Shop.
 The heavy rain interfered with the Ice harvest, work having begun by nearly all he dealers. At Hemingway's pond the work was pushed ahead until the blocks were only four inches thick. The Con- sumers' company have packed away several tons at Congsmond lakes and they arc likely to fill all their houses. There is considerable doubt felt about fill ing the Fair Haven houses this season.
 Revelation of St. John; the Last Bras of History" was the subject of the morning sermon of Rev. J. Lee Mitchell at the Grand avenue Congregational church yes terdsy. "A Great Practical Joke That Was Innocent" was the topic of the sermon in the evening. The recent very success full and interesting entertainment given at this church by the children's societies net ted between $40 and $50, which is to be divided equally between these societies for the cause of missions.
 Rev. D M. James at the Second Congre- gationsl clutch preached yesterday morn ing on 'The Congregational Brotherhood, " and in the evening on the topic, "A Good Old Way of Adjusting Differences"
 A special meeting of the Union school district of East Haven has bsen called for tomorrow evening at o'clock to take
 action relative to paying off the district in- debtedness.
 A large congregation gathered at the
 Grand avenue Baptist church last evening.
 During the service ten candidates were
 baptized. Religious services will be held
 tomorrow evening and Friday evening.
 The concert to be given in Central hall
 band, will doubtless be well worth attend
 ing. The program has been printed in this
 paper.
 Business Is picking up over ct the works
 of the Novelty Wire Goods company, and
 there is work requiring several weeks to
 complete.
 Miss Kettle Bradley won great praise
 and check for $100 at the concert recent
 ly given at the Peabody conservatory of
 music in Baltimore. She was the special
 soprano soloist.
 Over at the railroad cut the construction
 gang is engaged in breaking out the second
 level of the tunnel. For this purpose
 holes eight feet deep are bored with steam
 drills in the solid rock and about 200 pounds of dynamite cartridges are explod- ed simultaneously. One of these explos ions detaches tons of rock which is holsted out by derrioks and carried on the little
 narrow gusge railway for filling the new rosdbed between Middletown avenue and Hemingway street.
 Redfsld & Sons will soon begin the work of relsying the north wall of the Tomlinson bridge causeway. Their con tract is for SIS, ,323 50, which Is about $60( under the next lowest bidder. The stone will be taken from their qusrlies in ths annex.
 WALLINGFURD.
 Proposed New Silver Plate Manufac Secure It for Watltngford-A TowE Meeting to be Held Thursday-Gen eral News of the Town.
 For the past two weeks there has beer rumors afoat about the locating of a new company in this town for the manufac ture of silver plated ware, and the matte,
 has fioally assumed tangible form, and
 Friday evening 8 number of our prom inent citizsns met in the board of trade'i rooms and listened to the proposition oi Henry E. Biggins, who for several year. has been superintendent cf the Hartford Silver Plate company. MT. Biggins stated that he was interested in 8 new company about to be organized with capital 0. $50. 900 for the purpose of manufacturing eilver plated ware. The company had no decided upon the location of it's plant, bu although some of the citizsns of Bridge port are interested in the company locating in that city he was confident that if th, borough and town of Wallingford woult agree to abate the taxes upon the factor, property for ten years, and tho wate
 rentals for five years, the enterprise c oult be secured for this town. The following
 resolution was unanimously adopted.
 Whereas, H. E. Biggins, representing himsel ana others proposes to organize a joint stool buildings to carry on ths business of manufac turing in Wallingford, provided the town ant borough shall abate the taxes assessed by then | eAASAA of ten years g. d ths borough shall abate wate rentals for the period of five years it IS hereb,
 such %sde % svene sha said company shall be formed and shall prose
 cue 6 business ,,s. as @ aforesaid sS ,,
 F. M. Judd. B: A. Treat and Julius c. Maltbl were appointed committee to present the mat ter to the board of selectmen and board of bur geeses and request them respectfully to call special public meeting of the freemen to talk action upon the matter and to prepare suitabl, resolutions to present tO the maatinp A special meeting of the board of bur gesses was held Saturday evening and reso lutions were presented by the committee appointed. The board voted to call
 meeting for Thursdsy evening at 8:3( o'clock in town hall. The special towr meeting is called for the came evening a 7:SO in the same placs. Mir. Biggins statel that Bridgeport capitalists are interested
 in the company, and that $40. 900 has al ready been subscribed. The location O. the factory will bs near the railroad trscl
 on iand owned by Emory Morse, just soutl l of Marshal street, and that tn, factory will be 35x11O feet ant two and half stories, and tha
 later on another large building will b' added to the plant, and that work on tn, factory will begin as soon as the matter 1T question is favorably acted upon by tho ES
 The Housatonic Brass company has mad, application to the supreme court to have it's name changed to the Housstonic Mspu featuring company, on account of ths various kinds of goods made by the com pany which do not properly come urde1 the head of brass goods
 Henry A. Buck has severed his connec ton with the electroloid company, anG with his wife left town Saturday morning He stated that owing to i'll health be shoult take vacation of several weeks It il probable that he will not return to thil town to reside.
 David Hurley, who has for a short ,imt
 been working for W. A Booth, the livery man, was taken 10 New Haven hoepita Saturday afternoon, owing to @ severe at tack of chills which has affected his brain. Herman Gre uner of Church street, or Saturday evening found valuable lunch basket in front of his house, which tn. owner can have by calling for it. Several wagon loads of WsllingforG sports went down to Hamden to take in the cooking main Saturday night.
 An elderly lady from Bridgeport struch town on the 7:05 train one morning re csntly, with 8 live goose in her charge
 which she was intending for 8 present ,e Harry Gu!gere of Elm street. The bird did not relish being led about with { string. and made quite 8 racket on tn. train and at the depot. Its singing wal about as discordant as some of the musit reuAareH hv had of fb. r1airs <. rvo