The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-20
FAIR HAVEN NEWS ITEMS
MAYUFACTURERS' STREET RAIL
WAYS RIGHT OF WAY.

Mrs. Carr Very Ill-Home From Hampton,
ya.-oysters Scarce-Baptist Church En-
tertainment-Car to Lighthouse Point
VIII Contest.
| The Manufacturers Street Railway
company has completed nearly all Of
it's right of way; the remaining link is
lot 60 feet owned by a New York
lady and that property will be pur-
chased. The proposed line will be from
Grapevine Point in the Eleventh ward
to the Consolidated road tracks at
Cedar Hill and 1t will be used for
freight purposes by the Manufactur-
ers'. The application to go through
Quinnipiac Park is still pending before
the park commission.
| On May 2, at 10 a. m, C. K. Bush,
James Graham and A. e. Hewitt, a
committee of the superior court, will
give a hearing at Mr.. Bush's office on
the assessment of benefits and dam
ages caused by the proposed extension
of East Grand avenue.
Rev. Lewis o. Brastow, d. D., preach
ed at the Second Congregational church
yesterday morning.
The wife of Rev. w. M. Carr, the
recent pastor of st. Andrews M. e.
church, who was to have left for her
new home at Pearsalls, L. l., last Fri
day. is very ill at the home of AS
sistant Postmaster j. N. Rowe, ZIG
| Forbes avenue.
| Captain Charles H. Seeley has re-
| turned from Hampton Bar, Va, where
| he loaded the schooner Andrew Burn
| ham, Captain Barlo of Boston, with
oyster plants The Burnham arrived
] Saturday with 5000 bushels of oysters
| for J. E. Bishop & Co. Captain Seeley
reports that many vessels were load
| ing and oysters We're rather scarce.
The Grace Baily Of Long Island ar
rived yesterday with 1890 bushels of
| plants for c, D. Parmelee and Morris
Hemingway and the Helen p, of Clin-
| ton with 3,400 bushels of plants for w.
H. Potter and Miles Tuttle. These are
the last Of the plant vessels for this
| season.
| An entertainment is to be given in
the Grand avenue Baptist church to-
morrow evening by the members of
| CCdSOH IldIHIlOlu GttoS VI yOuilS
! ladies for the benefit of the church
building fund. The program: Piano
solo, Polka de Concert, Bartlett, Mrs.
Beers; baritone solo, o! Salutarus,
Weigand, Frank Edgar, with violin OBJ
ligato by Mr.. Wolf; recitation, The
Deacon's Courtship, Miss Florence
Macdonald; either solo, Miss Moore;
solo, Longing, Miss Flora Il. Stiles;
fancy club swinging, Miss Hamilton;
violin solo, Fred Adler: piano solo,
Recollections Of Home, Mrs. Ira Beers;
solo, A Winter Lullaby, De Koven,
Frank Edgar; recitation, In May, Miss
Macdonald; violin solo, Fred Adler;
duet, Goodbye Ye Flowerets Fair, Abt,
Miss Edith Porter and Miss D. Ger
/ trude Duell.
The improvements on the New Haven
Street Railway are likely to be COM
pieted so that cars will be running
through to Lighthouse Point next Sun
| day.
Twenty three candidates have been
! initiated by Fort Hale lodge, N. E. O.
p, since January 1.
Junior Past Warden Plummer of
Fort Hale lodge has been appointed
sentinel of the grand lodge of Connec-
ticut N. e. O. P.
Michael Conway, jr., of Waterbury,
is to contest the will Of the late Michael
Conway of 65 Clay street The estate
is worth about $1,000 In his will he
gave practically everything to his sec
ond wife. The contest will be on the
ground of incapacity to make will
Ex-Judge L. P. Deming of Fair
Haven addressed w. G. II. U. No. Q
Sunday afternoon, in his best and most
forceful way, on "Prohibitory Law, Its
Limits and Successes"
Other interesting speakers added tc
the enthusiasm Of the occasion and de-
cided impetus was given to temperance
work in that part Of the city.