The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-22
FAIR HAVEN.
A Ten Days Bicycle Trip--The Mud
 Digger's Task-Hard Digging-Work

A Ten Days Bicycle Trip-The Mud
 Diggers Task-Hard Digging--Work
 for the New Bell Tower Begun.
 William E. Hitchcock, assistant treas urer os the New Haven Wire Manu- featuring company, starts to-day for ten days bicycle trip. He will be join ed at New London by a number of Boston fellows, and they will take the boat there for Sag Harbor. From Sag Harbor they will wheel along the ocean side of Long Island to Brooklyn, from Brooklyn they will proceed by boat up the Hudson to Troy. Mounting their wheels again they will ride up through Saratoga and Fort Edward to Lake St. George. Here again they will take a steamer, sailing the length of the lake. Starting again on their wheels they will proceed to Montreal, passing Fort Ticonderoga and other historic points. The journey from Montreal to Quebec will be made by boat, after which the ride will be resumed down through the White mountains, past Colebrook, Fab- yans Mt Washington and Hiram Lake to Portland. where the wheel Journey ends, the party disbanding. Mr. Hitch cock will return from Portland by boat.
 William Newton of Exchange street, superintendent at Peck Bros, is the happy father of an eleven pound girl, which arrived Wednesday,
 Three sides of the large caisson, which Contractor Beatty Is building, have been completed.
 Mrs. McCave and children of Hous- ton street have returned from a two weeks stay in Forrestville.
 The mud digger Jackson which has been at work excavating the hole for the central pier of the new draw bridge was laid off yesterday. The contract was made that a certain number of yards of bottom removed was to con- stitute days work The bottom has proved very hard and stony and the progress iii excavating the forty-foot hole Is very slow. A disagreement in settling for the work is said to be the cause of the stopping of the work Con- tractor Beatty Is negotiating with the owners of the large dredge which is doing the water company's work to finish the bridge job, but no agreement has yet been reached
 Work on the foundation of the new bell tower In the rear of No. 5's engine house East Pearl street, was begun two days ago. The work is in charge of Engineer J. F. Buddington. Part of the foundation of the old tower is to be removed, and new stone laid at the four corners. The new toVer will be of iron, similar In construction to the Goffe street tower, and is now being made in Philadelphia. It will be S7 feet in height to the top of the pin nacle and 75 feet to the bell deck. The old bell and apparatus will be used as they are in good order. After the ar rival of the iron work it will require only about two weeks to complete the structure Fair Haveners are well pleased that the new tower Is being erected, the notes of the old alarm bell being greatly missed.
 Miss Grace Prior of Hartford Is the guest of Miss Millie Roehner of 25 Clin- ton avenue.
 A fine horse belonging to Robert Blakeslee of Quinnipiac street died Thursday night from collie.
 MT. and Mrs. Luzerne Ludington and Mrs. c. NJ Rexroth were among the Fair Haveners at Mantle yesterday
 Captain Isaac s. Potter, with party of six others, is stopping at the "Nev- CT Hush" cottage, Brocket's Grove, Captain Potter has his sharpie along, and takes the campers out fishing and sailing to their hearts content