The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-05
THE CORNER STONE LAYING
OF THE $6,OOO M0RTUARY CHAPEL,
 IR,HAYEN CEMETERY.

Impressive Exercises, President Deming Presldlng-List of Articles Placed In the Box-The Threatening Clouds Cause the Omission of the Addresses.
 The corner stone of the mortuary chapel under process of erection In the Fair Haven Union cemetery was laid with appropriate exercises yesterday at p. m. There was a goodly number of people assembled in the cemetery and the number would have been much | greater but for the threatening wealth CT.
 Standing upon the platform were the | gentlemen who were to take part in the | exercises and also the following officers | of the cemetery association: President Lucius P. Deming, Secretary Henry w.. l Crawford Treasurer D. M. Smith, Su- perintendent c. D. Parmelee; board of | directors, the above, and Willis Hem ingway, Henry A. Stevens, John O. Row. land, Herbert Barnes, Jacob P. Merrow, Friend A. Francis, George Mallory, 1 Roswell B. Farren, John s. Sanford, l 2d.
 | The services were in charge of Presi- dent Deming and were introduced with singing by the male choir of the East Pearl street M, F. church. followed with prayer by Rev. N. G. Cheney, pas tor of that church. Secretary Crawford then read the list of articles in the | copper box to be placed in the stone,
 while H. A. Stevens, the chairman of the building committee, held the box
 The stone was then laid by Henry A.
 Stevens, chairman of the building com
 mittee. The closing hymn, America
 was sung by the choir and the bene-
 diction was pronounced by MT Cheney President Deming was to have given an historical address, with remarks by
 MT. Cheney, but as a thunder storm was lrapidly approaching, this part was omit ted,
 The articles placed in the copper box
 were: Copies of city newspapers, Ma.
 sonic directory 1895, manuals of the
 local churches and of the Fair Haver
 fraternal societies, history, bylaws an6 regulations of the cemetery association | llStOlLCdl ISSSANSo II UT Al va H. Granniss, consisting of subscrip
 ton papers for First schoolhouse erect
 ed in 1874 onthe site of the present Strong
 school building, petition of inhabitant:
 of hast Haven of 1905 ''to properly re
 pair the toll bridge to New Haven,
 presented by Horace R. Chidsey, who
 received 1t from Mrs. Hannah Gran
 miss, mother of Colonel G. W. Grannist
 of San Francisco, list of burials in Fail
 Haven cemetery from June ', 1908, tC
 April 19, 1874, kept by Mrs. Lois Brad ley, and placed here by Mrs. James H
 Woodhouse, copy of contract of R. Red lfeld & Son for building cemetery chapel
 copy of report of New Haven board
 of education 1894, memorial papers from
 Mrs. Sara Thomson Kinney of Charle! Steele Thompson, M. D., Susan Belche
 Thomson, his wife, and William H
 Thomson M. D., catalogue of Yale uni versity, program of exercises at Beacor
 Hill and Fort Hale, July 5, 1895, his
 tory of woman's work toward renovat l ing cemetery 1S61-5, set of Columbian stamps 1923, S5 revenue stamps uset
 in 1863, button badge worn by member
 of the G. A. R. roster and bylaws o l Admiral Foote post, c. A. R.
 The chapel is to cost nearly $6,000 anc the walls are to be of East Havel stone, the interior lined with buff bricl
 and trimmings of copper. In addition there are to be six memorial window to cost about s1,500. There will be : mortuary chapel receiving vault, offic
 and tool room. The building will b completed in October.
 The corner stone is of East Havel
 red stone finely polished and bearinl
 the date 1895. The building is to be
 memorial to the soldiers who fought fo
 their country, as well as mortuar chapel The directors have been say
 ing funds for the past fifteen year l and have sufficient to bear the entir
 expense of the beautiful building.