The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-26
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

Down in His Diving Bell-A Sure Founda-
 tion-The State Funds for the oyster Dis tricts-The New Street Railway Com | pleted for About $s5,O0O-A Large Flu neral-The Late William saars of the Fire Department.
 The night schools at the Strong school building will open this evening at 7:15 o'clock. A. O. Abbott is the teacher.
 Miss Grace Huntley has returned from a five weeks stay with friends In Milford.
 The template marking the place where the caisson for the center pier of the drawbrldge is to be sunk has been placed in position. Diver Falcon, who went down In his diving bell to eX- anime the river bottom, says the hard pan Is the best he ever examined for the location of bridge pier It is re- ported that Diver Falcon received $100 for making the examination. MT, Falcon laid the main on the bottom of Quinnipiac river for the Lake Sal tonstall water supply.
 To increase interest in Fair Haven lodge No. ?, A. of H., a series of en- tertainments' will be held during the winter, the first entertainment to be held this evening. There will be recita- tions and music and refreshments will be served.
 F. J. Smith has been elected sentinel of the Grand lodge, Sons of Temper ance.
 Secretary Mathewson and Civil Engi- neer David c. Sanford of the shell fish, cries commission have completed their work of appropriating the funds which will go to the various oyster districts in this state for the oyster police. In each of these districts including New Haven the oyster growers will meet to recommend man to be appointed as watchman by the commission. The New Haven meeting will be of members of the local committee of the Connec- ticut Oyster Growers association. The total fund will be divided among the different districts according to the amount of cultivated grounds in the re- spective districts as follows: New Ha- ven, sSS2; Milford, $262; Stratford and Bridgeport, $621; Fairfield, $19S; Nor walk, $474; Stamford and Greenwich, $366.
 c. w. Blakeslee & Sons, contractors for building the Manufacturers Street Railway, have completed the contract. 1.-The contract was for about $25, 900. The Eelectric locomotive is expected to arrive this week and be placed on trial.
 The funeral of the late William F.. Saars was held from St. Francis church yesterday afternoon and was largely attended Saars' home was at 2S6 James street and deceased was truck man on truck No. 3 of the fire depart ment. The bearers were Captains Moves and O'Neil, Lieutenant Conlan and Fireman William Dwyer, Richard Murphy and William Jackson. A handsome floral tribute was contribut- ed by the fire department. A detail of two men from each fire company of the city attended the funeral. The in- terment was in St. Lawrence ceme- tery.
 o. w. Cook of Woolsey lodge has been securing list of the members who desire to make @ change in the plan of assessment in the Knights of Honor and has forwarded the same to | the supreme lodge The assessments have been too high for some members and too low for others and the plan is to require members members of given age to pay exactly what it costs them for that year The next year. when they are year older, the actual cost will be a little greater and they will be re- quired to pay that additional and so on each year paying exactly it's own cost and no more It is believed the advan- tages of this plant will tend to the prosperity of the order, because at all times on the tables proposed the mem- bers of a given age will take care Of themseves The new men will not be bearing the burden of the old and each member will paying the exact cost of the protection of a given year.