The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-08
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
ITEMS or INTEREST FROM BOTH
 SIDES THE RIVER.

Captain w. w. Crossley Very In-Irving Harrison's New Kesidence-Progress on Grand Avenue Drawbridge-Nearly
 Ready for superstructure,
 Captain William w. Crossley, who is very ill at his home on Chapel street, Is former Fair Haven resident. His fa- ther, the late Captain Crossley who died at Madison several years ago, built several vessels there, including the Robert Morgan and Jennie E. Fighter. Captain w. w. Crossley commanded
 the Morgan at the time the craft was run into and sunk. Captain Crossley is employed by the Ward Steamship com pany and his present illness was con- tracted in the tropics Rev. Father Mulholland is improving in the south, where he went for the
 benefit of his health.
 The apparatus of the Columbian Dredging company of Fall River, Mass,
 has been lying idle in the Quinnlpiac river several weeks. The boats and dredge were moored at one Of the wharves last winter, and this spring came into the Quinnipiac river to com plete the dredging preparatory to pulld- ing the drawbridge piers. The owners
 have not had any work for the appara- tus of late, but are hoping to secure a contract when the new East Chapel street drawbridge is built
 Irving Harrison, clerk with w. A.. Warner & Bro, Is building a convenient residence in Atwater street for the oc- cupancy of himself and family. The site is between Grand avenue and Pine
 street. The house is to be 25xS0 feet,
 two stories, with modern Improvements and hot air heat. Contractor H. E. I Lowe raised the frame and completed
 the house ready for the plasterers in
 twelve days
 | Mir and Mrs. w. r. Hubbard went to l Guilford Tuesday to attend the funeral of Sherman Hull, Mrs. Hubbard's cous- l in.
 Under the new arrangement of carry l ing the United States mail between
 East Haven and the New Haven post I office on the electric cars, the people of | the former town receive three mails
 and an equal number are sent out each
 day.
 | It is understood the sub-structure of
 the Grand avenue drawbridge will be
 completed within two weeks. There are already built up within the caisson for l the last pier seven courses of granite, weighing about 800 tons. This great weight is only sufficient to sink the
 great box at low water, but it readily floats at high tide With ,Ae addition
 of POO tons of stone, which ought to be
 laid by tomorrow, the caisson will rest | firmly on the river bottom. There are
 sixty stone cutters at work at Leete' s
 island getting out the g. anite blocks for
 this pier. The builders claim that they
 are not responsible for the delay on this
 pier. as the plans for the granite blocks l Were not given them until May 26. If
 the job is ready for the iron work at the time claimed, the Berlin Iron Bridge company ought to be putting the su- perstructure in place in a fortnight, as I the iron sections have been ready for | several months, lying in the gravel pit 'near Cedar Hill station. There will be great rejoicing when the bridge is completed. The merchants claim to
 have lost thousands of dollars in di-
 verted trade during the long period the
 bridge has been under construction.
 Miss Nellie Sears, formerly of Fair | Haven who has been sick with ma
 larial fever, is very much better. Her
 mother, who was under the care of Drs. W. Welch and Gaylord during the wifl-
 ter months with nervous prostration, has been quite sick again, but is i'm 1 proving.