The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
ITEMS or INTEREST FRoM BOTH
SIDES or THE RIVER.

Grange Meeting Next Tuesday-Ice Com
pany Formed-Death of Florence Snede-
ker-otficers of Columbia Castle-Some
Changes in Oyster Planting Industry.
Owners of fine trotting horses We're
glad to see the big snow storm yester-
day, as it promises to help out the
sleighing. Some of the local trotters
seen on Orange street may be mention
ed the fine pair owned by H. S. Ian
craft and the flyers owned by Burton
S. Bradley, Edward Tuttle and George
Bradley. Mr., Bradley says his Blue
Light has been beaten only once this
season.
A special meeting Of the East Haven
grange will be held next Tuesday eve
ming to work the degrees on several
candidates. The grange has elected the
following officers: Master, S. W. F.
Andrews; overseer, r. Fl. Coe; lecturer
Mrs George Lewis; steward, III. D. Cur
tbs; assistant steward, r. l.. Andrew;
chaplain, ID. W. futile; secretary and
treasurer Mrs. S. w. F. Andrews; po-
mona, Miss Eva Phelps; Flora, Mrs. r.
II. Coe; Ceres, Mrs. ]. s. Tyler; gate
keeper, j. S. Tyler; lady assistant, Miss
Mamie Pardee.
w. j, Konold, of Konold & Son, and
a number of other gentlemen have
formed the Woodbridge Ice company
and will engage in the ice trade. The
concern has obtained one hundred and
twenty-five acres of land in Wood
bridge, west of the Forsyth dye works
and are now engaged in constructing a
dam which will food the large part of
the area.
Florence Edith Snedeker, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs, George F. Snedeker of 81
Woodward avenue, died yesterday
morning of diphtheria, aged nine years
and eight months.
Columbia castle, Knights of the Gold
en- Eagle, at the meeting on Tuesday
evening elected officers as follows: No
BILE chief, w. r. Davis; vice chief, F.
r. Burnham; high priest, John Dixon;
venerable hermit, j. S. Bauer; sir her.
aid A. II. Ellis; master of records, j,
D. Vanderbilt clerk of the exchequer
Miles ]. Barnes; keeper of exchequer,
Frank Crawford; trustee. Frank Craw-
ford; representative to grand castle,
Charles e. Jones. Two candidates
Russell and Samuel Whittlesey-were
initiated in the third degree. At the
next meeting there will be an installa-
tion of officers, and an oyster supper
will be served, which will be free to all
members.
James D. Farren, who has been con-
fined 70 his home in East Haven for
nearly six months, originally with a
broken leg and later with an abscess,
is rapidly improving and hopes to en-
tirely recover ere long.
Architect Otto Wolfe of Philadelphia
is preparing plans for the new addition
to the Quinnipiac brewery.
Within the past few years the plant
ing OF Virginia oysters by the Fair Ha-
ven oystermen has been steadily fall
ing off In New Haven harbor there
were only about $4,000 bushels Of this
stock planted last season, as compared
with 250,000 bushels in season few
years ago The falling off is attrfbu-
ted to the increased cultivation of ma
tive stock, OF which there Is ample
quantity to supply the trade. The Viz
ginia plants, as they are called, are
brought here in the spring and laid
down on the shallow beds at the beach,
and by late autumn have developed in
size and well fattened ready for the
| market A few years ago, during the
| planting season, there would be quite a
| fleet of small two masted schooners at
anchor down the harbor, dischargine
plants into sharpies and steamers for
distribution upon the little oyster farms
| for the dealers. Nearly all this fleet
was made up of chartered vessels from
Long island or Cape Cod, but years be-
| fore all this freighting was done by
vessels owned and built in Fair Ha-
ven. But there is hardly one of these
vessels owned here to-day. 1t made
| quite a business for Fair Haven char
ter masters to secure the vessels an6
go south and load them, but this bust
ness Is nearly over now that so Few
southern oysters are brought here
Speaking of the small schooners for
merly owned here, 1t may be mention
| ed that in 1885 the Fair Haven fleet
| embraced twenty vessels of a total ton
mage of 1,1SS tons-small two-masters
one Of the present Fair Haven bull
three-masters would equal the entire
tonnage of the fleet of 1885 Six of the
feet were engaged in the West India
trade part of the year, and the Others
were in the coasting and oyster trade
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