The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-01
PERsONAL JOTTINGS.

General George II. Ford and wife left yesterday for Lakewood. N. J. Mrs. Ford will remain for few weeks at the Laurel in the Pines hotel for the | benefit of her health. She has been i'll for several weeks with a bronchial trouble. General Ford will return on | Monday.
 Rev. F. R. Luckey of the Humphrey Street Congregational church and wife | left this city yesterday for an ex- tended tour in Europe. He will first go to London, England, where he will remain for several days and later join a large party of clergymen and their | wives, who will travel on the continent and visit the Holy Land. MT. and Mrs. Luckey yesterday went to Poughkeep- sic to visit his mother and attend to a l few business matters. They will sail | for Europe tomorrow.
 | Professor G. Franklin Hoyt will give a reception tonight as close to his dancing school at his studio in the In surance building.
 l Mr. Marble, head of the scientific di- | vision of the Hillhouse high school, and thirty boys of his division were to West | Haven yesterday to inspect the water
 works of that borough.
 Ex-Judge l.. P. Deming has returned from Barre, Vt, where he attended the | annual meeting of the grand lodge of | the N. E. Q. P. At a public meeting
 held Tuesday evening Judge Deming addressed large audience. | A ft,yf fcia Ie of ~
 who is connected with the Consolidated
 railroad, gathered at his home, 61 | Court street, Wednesday evening" the occasion being his twenty-first birth | day. After congratulations were ex- | tended to MT. Blake he was presented
 with Q gold watch and chain, the pre-
 sentation being made by Benjamin
 Koch. MT. Blake responded in a fitting
 speech. Games and other social enter tainments were indulged matter which
 the party sat down to supper. 1 Mrs. George Hatch of this city is visiting in Winsted. Mrs. Hatch is in | terested in the Hatch property at the
 pavilion near Highland lake. | Miss Hattie Futile of Ward street
 will leave in a few days for her home
 in Dunkirk, N. Y.
 | w. H. Ferguson of 125 High street | has leased the Tyler house, near the l Connecticut building, and will open the
 Columbian cafe in a few days. MT.
 Ferguson is president of the New Ha- ven Walters association.
 l The Dessauer-- -Troostwyk club of l this city will render several selections | at a gathering of the Ladies' Aid club of Bridgeport this evening. Mrs. Alice
 Fechter-Gilbert will assist.
 Miss Isabelle Steinhardt of 99 Lafay- cite street is engaged to Mir. Albert
 Katz of Waterbury.
 l Mrs. Lucius Futile of Boston is the
 guest of Mrs. Peets of Orange street. l Miss Jennie Futile of Boston, who is here at the Atwater Weed nuptials, is l the guest of Miss Florence Clark of
 13 Trumbull street.
 | MISS WALTZINGER HONORED. | The friends of Miss Bertha Waltzing- | CT, formerly of this city, who has been
 singing with DeWolf Hopper now for
 two or three seasons. will be pleased to
 hear how she was honored recently by 1 two great singers. At the performance l of Sousa's new opera, "El Captain, 7 in NeW 1oIh Hol ioilS ago, MelDd dlQ | Plancon sat in box. Miss Waltzinger
 has an aria in this opera, which she is
 singing with great success. When she
 finished on this evening Plancon jump
 ed up from his seat and cried out i Bravo" and Melba applauded enthu-
 siastically. Afterwards Melba went on
 the stage and asked to be presented to
 Miss Waltzinger. The great prima l donna told her that she was above comic opera work. She advised her to
 go to Paris to study and make the most
 of her lovely voice. Miss Waltzinger
 delighted at the pleasant impression
 she had made It was a charming
 thing for Melba to do for the young l singer.