Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-13
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

Speed Their Fast Horses-ThOu&ht 1t Was a Weather Bulletin-Captain l Hervey's Poor CreW-NeW embers F ofthe Y. M. (. A.
 The tidings were received yesterday of | the death of Merit Finch in Tennes- ee. Mir. Finch's home was in Fair Haven, but l he went to Tennessee two or three years | ago and for 8 time his health was jm- 1 proved. He was on here last summer re- | turning to Tennessee in the fall. He died from the effects of con-
 sumption and was of a family of four
 children who have succumbed to that disesse. He leaves a widow who was Miss Annie Glsdwin, a daughter of Mrs. Felix | Glsdwin of 40 Exchange street. The re mains will be brought here and will proba- bly, arrive to morrow.
 l The school flags were displayed yester- day in honor of the birthday of Abraham | Lincoln.
 l The owners of fast horses on the east side were glad to see the snow falling yes- | terday, as there are some scores between l rival horses which have not as yet been
 settled. George W. Dayton has his trotter
 in fine condition and will welcome 8 scrap | with some of the other flyers.
 The present membership of the Y. M. O.. | A, is about 130.
 deceived by the Tornado" bulletins, be
 lieving them to be real weather fore,aets from the United States signal office. l Ed. Rowe had @ gang of fifteen men at
 work housing good, 9 inch ice at his pond yesterday.
 Captain Hsrvey says that the crew which
 came up from Virginia with him on the
 schooner Garret P. Wright was tie worst
 he ever had in all his sea experience, with
 as directed and the captain discharged them | as soon ss the vessel was tied up to the dock.
 There was no bid OF the property of the
 Fair Haven marine railway yesterday and
 SO it passes into the hands of the mort gsgee, MT. Armstrong, at $l1.500 With
 8 wharf frontage of 400 feet and many
 building lots the property is cheap at that figure. The dock front will bs a valuable
 commercial property some day. ] W. H. Farren, who was charged in the
 city court with striking Washington Gun
 ningham with clam rake, was fined $7 in the city court yesterday and the costs were taxed at $1436. Cunningham tried to | ejscs several men who, he claimed, were
 digging clsms and trsspsssing on his oys- 1 ter beds.
 The following have become members of
 the Y. M. 0. A. since New Year's: George Trapp, Charles Hamilton, Gilbert B. Rowe, l 0. M. Rexroth, Robert O. Hart, Henry T. Pierce, George L. Valentine, S. o. Floyd, l Frank F. Osgood and John K. Thompson { Fifteen members also renewed for another year.
 Several candidates for instruction for the Y. N. o. A. physical classes and msm- bers of Yale university have been over and ! instructed the classes. An instructor will be selected this week in season to meet the classes on Thursday.
 Lyman Granniss who Is cutting foe ct Congsmond lakes for the Consumers' com pany returned yesterday morning to re- sume work. He reports the ice fourteen and fifteen inches thick and says that all of the company's houses are likely to be filled
 Captain John G. Hsrvsy in the schooner Garrett F. Wright which is laid up here, expects to start for the south about March
 to bring . cargo of oyster plants. Az there is such poor demand for Virginia stock now, Captain Hervey could not make up second charter. The new game of basket balls is becom- ing very popular at the Y. N. 0. A. rooms and . couple of teams are to be formed.