The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-16
FAIR HAVEN NE IFS.

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 New Bridge's sFoundations-An Interest ing Worls-Tho Big Cassion-Other Notes.
 The board of relief of Fair Haven East will meet at the office of Clerk c. D. Bray to-day. The board is com posed of the warden and burgess.
 For fifty cents month the Journal and Courier will be delivered to your residence in Fair Haven. Orders may be left with Rexrotte, the newsdealer, at "A Grand avenue.
 Frank D. Simms of this place has been appointed secretary and assistant treasurer of the Mallory, Wheeler Co. For several years he has been the book keeper.
 | A military mass is to be held at St. Francis church in December and Fa- ther Mulholland has extended an in- vitation to the Sarsfeld Guard and the American band to attend.
 The branch postof1ice was closed at l noon yesterday, Lincoln day. Several 1 flags were displayed. | Mrs. D. M. James has been reelected president of the Kings Daughters of Connecticut.
 E. r. Foote of Exchange street, who has had charge of one of the passen~ ger elevators in the First National bank building, has resigned to accept situation with the New Haven Clock company.
 James D. Farren of East Haven, who has been at the state hospital for three months, under treatement for a com pound fracture of the leg, Is now at his 1 home.
 l F. B. Hitchcock has sold to E. T. B. Murphy a building lot on Frank street, East Haven.
 | At the works of the Boston Asphalt company the crude asphalt is being ground preparatory to using the ma- terial in the paving of Orange street.
 The recent storm did not damage the oyster beds in this vicinity so far as the investigations have been made. Serious loss was caused to oystermen along the Bridgeport and Stratford shores, the natural beds off those towns being ruined, thus depriving over 800 people of their principal means of live lihood. The lowest estimate of the damage is put at $s0,0OO, figured in com parison to the amount of product taken from the beds at this time last year.
 The work of dredging out founda- tion for the center or draw pier for the drawbridge is nearly completed. The digger has now got down between thir- ty-six and thirty seven feet and they are to dig to depth of thirty eight ] feet, when hard pan will be reached At a depth of forty feet rock bottom would be reached, but it is not consid- cred necessary to go so deep. After this excavation is completed the digger will excavate for the two rest piers, which are to be dug only twenty-six l feet. The next move will be to tow the l big caisson to the center excavation and sink 1t. To accomplish this, five courses of big stone blocks will be built up on the bottom of the great octagonal box, requiring about 800 tons of weight. Then the courses of stone will be built up within the water-t tight box until the abutment is finished The box, or cais- son, is forty feet across and when 1t is suHh III pldCe US SlQeS Will De Dullt up higher making it forty feet in height The timbers for the bottom of the cais- son are twelve Inches square and the planking is three by ten inches. The bottom is to remain under the abut- ment, but the sides are held in place by heavy bolts and when the abut- ment Is completed these bolts can be unlocked thus releasing the sides, which will be used in the caissons for the rest piers. The caissons for the rest piers are to be thirty-two feet in heighth. The granite blocks, weighing from three to five tons, have been got out at the Leete's Island quarries and will begin to arrive in few days. For several days, James Torrey Contractor Gearys driver, has been going down in the excavations to see how the work is proceeding. It is expected that the center pier can be built in a month after the work begins and another month will be required to build the two rest piers. There has been considera- ble delay in the work, but when the digging is completed it is expected the construction will be pushed ahead sat- isfactorily.