The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-17
po1NGs IN FAIR HAVEN.

Notes of Interest-Religious Services at
 the Old Blackstone Homestead-The
 Inventive Spirit-New and Novel General News
 Religious services were held yester- day in the old Blackstone homestead at Eotchkiss Grove. Rev. 10. c, Sage preached Among the Fair HaVeners who are stopping at this place are N. A. Beebc and wife, Clarence Ames and family, Charles Hubbard and family and S. F. Dibble and family. A handsome new sign has just been placed over the Adams Express com panys office at the junction of Clay and Monroe streets and Blatchley ave nue. A new wagon has also been as- signed to this office.
 Captain George Dadman Of Houston street, captain of the Yale launch, has taken a position as motorman on the Fair Haven and Westville road. Nathan Eldridge of East Pearl street win spend this week in Mystic ana | vicinity.
 1 Miss Amy Gage of 22S Grand avenue and Miss Genevieve Blake of Cedar Hill ! avenue start to-day for a three weeks 1 trip to various points up the Hudson 1 Thursday evening at the regular ses- sion of Hiram Camp division, s. of T., | Grand Worthy Patriarch D. W. Tuttle and M. A. Farren will be present. For the good of the order an entertainment will be given by tho Loyal Crusaders, 1 and ice cream, lemonade and light re- treatments will be served.
 Now that the temporary bridge is Tn use only the south track of the Fair Haven and Westville road on Grand 1 avenue is used from the corner ot Front street to the switch near East Pearl street. When the sprinkler goes i through Grand avenue it leaves the merchants on the north side in the dust They are in hopes that some way can be devised to overcome this diffi- culty.
 Wednesday all the local meat dealers i will close their stores at Il a, m. in or | der that they may attend the butchers barbecue.
 Oystermen report the largest oyster set in years. The conditions have been very favorable this year, the warm weather aiding very materially.
 The hole for the large caisson in which the central pier of the new bridge is to be constructed is getting near the required depth. In some por- tions it is already deep enough.
 E. & Wade has returned from a cy- cling trip on Long Island.
 N. D. Coe of POS Blatchley avenue has invented a combination rim and tire for bicycles, which bids fair to su- persede pneumatic tires. The. rim Is made of wood half round like an or dinary bicycle rim, but much smaller, being 5-16 of an inch in thickness and one inch wide Instead of being con- caved as the ordinary rims are oblig- ed to be in order to hold the pneumatic tires now in use, it is flat on it's outer circumference. The whole rim is COW cred with aluminium bronze, a material which will not rust The tire consists of a series of steel springs fastened to the rimsat equal distances. The springs are made of the finest steel wire which lis bent5in the form of circle, with the | outer side curved inward, forming a groove around the outer circumference of the tire. These springs are fasten- cd on the outside by small nuts, and passing through the aluminium bronze and wooden rim curve back around the outside of the rim. In the groove Is fft- ted a band of aluminium bronze to | which a rubber tread is cemented, the whole forming a tire 1s4 inches In diam- i eter with the rim hung on the inside. The groove around the outside Of the tire prevents the rubber tread from slipping to either side, and the springs are kept in place by slots cut into the metal band into which the onter edges of the springs are inserted. A working model has been made thoroughly to test the principle before the invention Is put before the public. It is neces- sarily crude, being twice as heavy as the perfected article will be, but It has demonstrated that the principle is i correct.
 The inventor claims that the new tire is superior to any pneumatic tire, as the possibility of puncture is entirely done away with. The tire is just as light and fully as resilient as any pneu- matic tire, and if made of good mate I rial and properly constructed, will last as long as the other parts of any high grade bicycle.
 Bicyclists whose machines are equip ped with this tire need never fear that their tires will give out on the road, as Is frequently the case with pneumat- ics. Should a spring happen to break, it can be easily detached and the bi- cyclist can proceed without further trouble in moments time, as the loss of one spring would not weaken the tire perceptbly.
 MT. Coe is now having 8 lighter mod el made, profting by his experience with the first one. It will be completed and ready for exhibition soon. Pat ents have been applied for on the new invention and were solicited through Earle & Seymour.
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