The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-08-09
MALLORY & WHEELER'S MEN
THEIR ANNUAL OUTING AND BAN
0UET ar WOODMONT.


rarity Numbering About $50 Including
Ladies-A Membership of 61-A Long
and Honorable Record-Other Shore
Notes.
Seated at long tables on the pleasant
piazza of Merwin's shore house and
restaurant at the end of the Woodmont
trolley line Saturday afternoon, were
about $50 people doing justice to a fine
shore dinner There were about seven
ty ladies and children in the party, and
a very pretty sight was presented. The
affair was Mallory, Wheeler & Co. s
Benefit associations annual outing and
banquet. The day was o delightful one
for the affair, the sun bright and the
air nevertheless cools especially at the
shore, The association was looked af-
ter at the banquet by the Messrs. Mer-
win, who kept the courses coming on
until the banqueters CRIED Hold!
enough" The Mallory, Wheeler & Co.
association has been in existence for
twenty-seven years. 1t was formed in
1850 and has proven a truly beneficiary
institution. Its present officers are:
President, Charles Jones; secretary,
Stafford Terry; treasurer, w. J. Stew
art, one of New Haven's aldermen for
the Twelfth ward. The association has
membership of sixty-one. 1t pays $40
a week benefit in case of a members
Illness or disability, and at the death
OF a member an assessment of 81 is
laid upon each member The associa-
ton was specially pleased Saturday at
having with them as their guests the
following officers Of the Mallory, Wheel
er, & Co. establishments: President
Hotchkiss, Secretary Frank Sims, SUI
perintendent James Coe.
After dinner the company broke up,
the members enjoying themselves as
inclination dictated in roaming about
the shore, and enjoying the various at
fractions of the shore generally.
Uncle "Bilp' Merwin, one of the best
police officers New Haven ever had,
who is the proprietor of the shore
house, and also served with fidelity I'M
til he met with the unfortunate acct
dent which permanently injured his
spine, was present at the factory boys
rHunion, getting about by means of his
cane, his limbs being still uncertain
and not permitting him to go about
without the aid of his trusty staff He
received many warm greetings from
old friends. Mr.. Merwin received the
injury which disabled him In making
misstep from the steps of a building,
stepping down four or five steps in the
dark, thinking he had but one step to
make. After long period of alter
nate improvement and encouragement
he retired from the police force, and
being fond of the sea. set up his bust
ness at the shore which has grown to
be quite prosperous one.
While busy assisting in the prepare
tons for the shore dinner for the NAL
lory, Wheeler & Co. men Saturday
morning, and while hurrying out from
under shed, Mr.. S. P. Jonas, son-in-
law of ex-Officer Merwin, struck the
top of his head against a block over
head, which hung down from the top
of the entrance way, and he was knock
ed senseless A painful laceration of
the scalp was made. Mr.. Jonas, with
much pluck, after recuperating awhile,
returned to business, though still feel
ing the effects of the blow.
Surveyors have been at work the
past week laying out the route for the
new trolley line which is to connect the
Woodmont line with the ancient town
of Milford. The work of building the
line will, it is now thought, be under
taken this fall.
A small colony of fishermen who car
ry on operations along the beach near
Milford Point have been driven off the
land along the shore by Henry c. Lew
Is, an extensive oyster grower OF
Strat ford. Mr.. Lewis claims that the
fishermen at Milford are trespassine
on his land, and to make a test Of his
claim an arrest has been made of one
of the fishermen, Joseph Ford who re.
fused to go when ordered off. The tria
will take place to-day before Justice
Peck Of Stratford, and much interest Is
being manifested in the outcome of the
case The fishermen of Milford Poin
will attend the hearing in large mum
| bers. Judge William B. Stoddard o
| this city has been engaged to defend
| Ford at the trial