The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-19
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 Second Entertainment in the Peoples Course-"A Capital Courtship" to be
 Presented-Ladies' Aid Society Enter
 tainment-Proposes to Enlarge Polar Star Hall.
 The second entertainment in the peo- ple's course, "A Capital Courtship," the picture play by Alexander Black, will be given in the Grand avenue Con- gregational church this (Tuesday) eve hing. This is considered by the com mittee to be the most popular attrac- tion of the course. Miss Jerry" as given in last years course, made such | decided hit that it was thought best to engage MT. Black again this season for his latest picture play. The scene of a Capital Courtship" is laid in Washington City, and the author in- troduces by name President Cleveland, Speaker Thomas B. Reed, Secretary Lamont and number of other distin- guished men who honored MT. Black lsby sitting for special scenes in his story. MT. Blacks invention of the picture play has been one of the defi- nite successes of recent years. As il- lustrated in the first picture play, l Miss Jerry's" immediate success, as suring as it did the permanent value | of this new form of entertainment, in duced MT. Black to write and illustrate, as soon as the pressure of work entail ed by his public presentation of Miss Jerry would permit, a second picture ! play called "A Capital Courtship' The great variety in scene of the pictures, | their picturesqueness, the human inter- est of large and distinguished cast, | combined to make the entertainment one of great novelty and charm.
 | The ladies aid society of the Grand | avenue Congrega church will | give an entertainment and tea in the parlors of the church tomorrow even- | ing. The admission to the tea to be served at o'clock is only ten cents. Mrs. F. H. Baldwin is at the head of the committee in charge of the tea. Af- terward there will be given an enter l tainment, of which Miss Hattie Denni- | son will be in charge. The program: | Piano solo, Miss Josephine Bradley; ! reading, Miss Halton; violin solo, Edna 1 Fuller; recitation, MT. Willis; song, Isadore Goldberg; piano solo, Mabel | co1J | The committee on finance of Polar Star lodge, I. o. Q. F., consisting of D. O. Chipman. F. R. Leeter and s. W. | Parker, has under consideration the enlargement of Polar Star hall on | Grand avenue. When the building was 1 completed about year ago it was with the understanding that the build | ing would be carried up another story when necessity demanded it. The hall I was built for entertainments, balls, etc, and is the only large hall in Fair | Haven now in use. The building was l constructed with a view to raising the roof when another story was required 1 The building is 106 by 43 feet, with hall l and ante-rooms on first floor and a | supper room in the basement. It has been proposed tO TdlSe #lHe IOoI5 be-
 tween twenty two and twenty-five feet 1 affording 8 commodious lodge room ir the rear and banquet room in the front. The Polar Star lodge now meets in the building at the corner of Granc avenue and East Pearl street It sub
 lets the lodge room on the third fiool
 to several societies so that it Is in ust nearly every week day If the projec is carried out the lodge will fit up handsome and conveniently appointed
 lodge room in it's own building. Th'
 cost of the proposed improvement is es
 timated at s6.000 The lodge has abou
 200 members.
 Oystermen who went down to tn
 harbor yesterday report that q fleet o
 schooners and several coal barges ant
 tugs had put in and anchored durins
 the storm. At noon the weather hat
 sufficiently cleared so that nearly tn
 entire fleet of some fifteen schooner
 had sailed.