The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-19
OF L0CIL INTEREsT.


 City Attorney Matthewman and Vice
 President John M, Hall of the Consoll-
 dated railroad will meet to-day to ar
 rive at some arrangement regarding
 the complaints concerning the surplus age of smoke at the roundhouse. SKATES. The skates were brought out again
 yesterday and hundreds enjoyed them
 selves in. skating at Lake Whitney or
 at other skating places. The boys and
 girls were rejoicing last evening over
 the promise of Chief Engineer Kennedy
 to have the old green flooded, and over | the expectation of having some excel | lent skating there. But from present
 indications snow will interfere with this scheme for happiness,
 o. H. PLATT COLONY. 1 X local colony of the United Order of 1 Pilgrim Fathers has just been organ | ized in Meriden with twenty-two mem- ! bers It has adopted the name of Or vile II. Platt colony No 1S2,
 A GIFT TO THE Y. M. c. Az l lile IdlS 1OullS hGIl S SulTSlluu dS~ sociation has just received a gift of $40 from the boys of Hotchkiss school.
 This gift is to be devoted, as request
 ed, to the Boys club, where it will
 come in very useful for the purchase
 of new books, games, etc. The gift is
 mark of appreciation from the Hotch- kiss boys for the deputations of Yale
 men which have been sent annually to the school
 SCHOONER DAMAGED. | The New Haven schooner Grace Sey..
 mour was badly damaged by collision | which occurred on Chesapeake Bay on Sunday, in which the Italian bark Sal. vatore Accame was fouled. The schoon- CT had the jibboom and headgear car l ried away. The bark was damaged by
 the mizzen rigging being loosened. Cap- | tain Holmes, who has command of the 1 schooner Seymour, belongs in New Ha-
 ven. The Seymour was bound for Prov | idence, R. I.
 CLUB REORGANIZES. The old West Side club, which dis bbanded about two weeks ago. has re- | organized with 110 members. Officers
 were elected as follows; President, Sey-
 mour R. Stone; vice president, Irving
 Blakeslee; secretary, Albert Mix; finan- cial secretary, William Powell; treas-. urer, John Pardee. A board of govef nors was elected, consisting of the pres- l ident, vice president and secretary, and | r. T. FCatlin, J. c. Smith, Frank Nichol- son, George T. Smith, Henry Pardee and Donald Carmichael The club house was leased for two years and the 1 name was retained. It was decided | that no liquor should ever be sold at l the club house.
 MORRIS COVE WAR OVER. The long contest between l., Wheeler 1 Beecher and the New Haven and Nor l ris Cove Railway company over cer- tain property rights and rights of way at Morris Cove has, after months of effort and many personal consultations by the contestants, been concluded and agreements mutually satisfactory to all parties interested have been arrived at whereby all the old suits between L. Wheeler Beecher and the above-named companies have been withdrawn and settled. This ends one of the most stubbornly contested legal and legisla- tive fights that New Haven has ever known.
 NEW ASSISTANT PASTOR. Rev. Frederick Lynch has begun his duties as assistant pastor of the United church, succeeding Rev. MT. Miles who has accepted g pastorate at Hartford. Mir. Lynch is a very promising young man. of excellent address and a fluent and interesting speaker. He has al
 ready found favor with the congrega- tion
 OFF FOR FLORIDA. Tax Collector Francis G. Anthony has gone on a pleasure trip to Ken lucky, Florida, and other points south He will be gone three or four weeks. During his absence the tax collectors office will be in charge of Deputy Col lector John F. McHugh. SURGICAL OPERATION.
 Mrs. Mccormack of 2S6 Congress ave-
 nue, who underwent severe surgical
 operation for removal of @ stone can
 Ger from the breast, Monday, is doing
 as we'll as could be expected, consider ing the nature of the operation, as the
 cancer was os very large size. Dr. Sayles performed the operation.
 HOME FROM GEORGIA. S. S. Thompson and J. B. Robertson have just returned from a three weeks stay in Georgia, the guests of E. A. Manice, a nephew of the latter, and who resides in Pittsfield, Mass, and recently purchased a plantation of 16,- 300 acres at Cyclone, about fifty miles back from Savannah, which he is now developing
 A BIG TOW. The tugboats Vandercoock, Skdmore, Zouave and Weed brought in tow yes terday twenty-five barges, which con-
 tained 10000 tons of coal. The barges were covered with ice and had a rough trip.
 A PRETTY RECEPTION.
 Present at the very pretty reception
 given by Mrs. Friend Brooks of Whit
 ney avenue were the following child ren: Alice Brooks, Hazel Merwin, Louis Robinson. Ruby Danls, Mabel Danks, Marion Munson, Maud Munson, Ethel
 Munson, Susie Kirby, Rita Kirby,
 Esther Craig, Jessie Craig, Ruth Jen-
 nings, Ruth Collins, Dorothy Betts, Lily Getler, Miss Marsh, Miss Heller Miss
 Collins, Fred Holcomb, Stephen Whit
 ney, Fred Smith, Wilbur Smith, Ken
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