The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-20
FAIR HAVEN.

Slty Auuitor Brown visited Quinnlpla'
 Park-Hiram Camp Division, s. of w., tC
 Give a Musical and Literary Entertain
 ment-Had Been Negotiating to Build {
 Four-Masted Schooner.
 On Saturday City Auditor Brown wis ited the Quinnipiac park and superln tended 'the erection of the liberty pole that recently stood on the grounds oi the Strong school. The pole formerly stood on Custom house square. A flag will be hoisted on the pole in it's new location on Memorial day.
 The DeNoss family will appear at the Grand avenue Baptist church Tuesday evening, May 2S, in program consist ing of original, popular and classical selections. During the past twenty three years the DeMoss family has ap- peared with great success in nearly all the prominent cities of the country They were engaged to give daily enter tainments to the thousands in the hor- ticultural building, composing and rem dering the Columbia souvenir songs al the worlds fair. They play forty-one different musical instruments.
 D. w. Futile of East Haven has re-
 
 been away about one month.
 Hiram Camp division, Sons of Tenn perance, will give a musical and lit erary entertainment in Sons of Tenn perance hall on Grand avenue, Wednes- day evening. Rev. N. w. Cheney has promised to deliver anf address. After the entertainment cake and ice cream will be sold.
 FT@I, I, q V,N gotiating with a Philadelphia captain to build four-masted schooner of about the size as the H. H. Hanscom. If the contract had been placed MT. < Hanscom would have taken consid- erable share in the craft. His ship yard at the foot of Ferry street was broken up several years ago, and the largest portion sold to the New Haven Street Railway company as a site for their car house, and if the vessel had been constructed MT. Hanscom would have leased some yard where business is suspended
 The four masted schooner William Nicely has discharged at Boston 4500 tons of sugar loaded in Cuba.
 The three master, Harry and Grace Reynolds, has arrived at New York from Santiago, Cuba, with sugar.
 SUDDEN DEATH OF CAPTAIN
 HANSCOM.
 The sudden death of Captain Howard H. EIanscom, the veteran shipbuilder, on Friday night was big shock to his large circle of friends. The de- ceased was without doubt the best known ship builder in he state, and he had host of friends all along the coast Death was due to apo .Jiexy. He was born in Elliott, Me, fffty-two years ago, and he spent his youth in Portsmouth, N. H. He came to New Haven about twenty-six or twenty-sev- en years ago, and was employed uy Deacon Samuel Butler, who was at that time shipbuilder on River street, and who was the father of the Misses Butler, with whom Captain Hanscom boarded at the time of his death. Dea- con Butler wished to retire, however, and little by little the management of the business fell upon Hanscom and at length the latter became the sole head of the firm. This was about twenty years ago, and from that time until the yard was given up, three years ago, sixteen schooners were built under Captain Hanscom's direction. Among them were the Horace F. Shares, the Howard H. Hanscom, the Jacob Reed, the w, w. Converse, the Charles H. Valentine, the John N. Tingue, the John M. Brown, the Thomas l.. James, the James G. Beecher, the Grace Sey- mour, the Napoleon Boughton, the Will liam Neely, and the Grace and Harry Reynolds. It was Captain E1anscoms boast that not one of the ships which he built were lost at sea, although several of them, noticeably the Grace Seymour and the James G. Beecher, were badly damaged. During the past three years, or since he had retired from the ship building, he had devoted himself prin- cipally to marine brokerage and real estate
 His father died many years ago, and his mother was buried in 1891. He has four married sisters living,two in Ports mouth, N. H., and two in Biston. They have been notified of his death.