The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-12
DOINGS IN DERBY.


July 10,--The attractio n Of the high
and trick driving by Norrin at Housa-
tonic Lake Park continues. 1t is said
that the indicator showed last evening
twenty-four hundred trolley car pas
sengers. An accident to the diver
Thursday evening slightly mared the
entertainment, although Norrin was too
plucky to let the crowd know Of his
suffering and courageously made the
third dive. Norrin was trying the fire.
hook feat and in jumping through the
ring in flames caught his foot so that
the line of his dive-curve was changed
and Norrin fell against the water on
his left side. Had the leap been made
from the seventy instead of the fifty
fatal. DR.. Beardsley was summoned
and worked to relieve Norrin, so that
the program Of Friday could be filled.
Norrin was able to make his three
dives yesterday, though quite stiff and
weak.
The Skeletons came home Friday even
ing the victors in their game with the
Milfords at Savin Rock.
Mrs. Stokebury, an elderly lady llv-
ing on Sentinel Hill," Derby, was,
severely burned on the face yesterday
evening while throwing some rubbish
into the fire, the stuff containing gun
| powder that had been hid in a closet.
DR.. Beardsley attended her,
Cooley, who has been employed at the
sanitarium for some time, commences
| next week a tour through the state
selling the liquor remedy DR.. Girls
void has been using in this institu-
| ton.
Judge eager and o. II. Nettleton re
turned from their European outing yes
terday.
The Rosy-Langello -Lavelle murder
trial still holds the court fort.
Rice, formerly in the undertaking
business on Elizabeth street, has left
this field to so on the road with a
patent he has devised in the casket
| line.
Norrin, the diver, has signed with
| the Electric Railroad company to re
turn here within four weeks and repeat
his water acrobatics.
| The experiment of forming a boy
! choir to sing at the evening meetings
of the Methodist church Christian En-
deavor Sundays is being tried.
To say that the people in Derby and
| vicinity are gone wild on the subject
| of baseball is only to show the fever
pulse of this community as to amuse-
ments. Few are the games on the new
| grounds at Lake Park that are not
patronized by crowds and the best
feature of these assemblies is the ex-
cellent character of the attendance
The management of this pleasure spot
deserves special praise for the pains
and determination it has shown to have
order, to please everybody and to avoid
accidents. The disorderly bum" ele-
ment is emphatically barred out of this
resort and the very best people attend
the entertainments because they are as
sured the very best treatment There
Is no place of its kind in the state
where the comfort quiet and demeanor
lof all is so nicely maintained as al
this park The ball games really are
| the drawing card for a steady pull
There are many here in the three towns
| who play or enjoy seeing others at it
and when there is a contest between
! the two sections or villages the inter
est wakes hot. The game Saturday
| afternoon was really the iveliest OF
| the season and the enthusiasm Of the
patrons reached a high Fahrenheit
point. The fight was between the
| Derby lads and the Ansonians and the
known well-matched records Of the two
mines drew the biggest crowd to the
park, the indicators have so far mark
! ed. 1t is reported that on one trip from
| the transfer corner the conductor col
lected one hundred and twenty-eigh
| fares and didn't get all then. AS to thu
| result Of the ball match this has truly
been a. Derby day. The Welcomes o
Ansonia We're decidedly not in 1t ant
there was not enough good playing Il
make the exhibition exciting. Derb,
won by a big score.