The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-17
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM BOTH
 SIDES OF THE RLVER.

Hitting Up the Steamers for the Fall
 Oyster Business-Real Estate Improve
 ments-Women's Home Mission Alliance
 The Work on the Bridge-Personal
 Notes, Etc.
 F. H. R. Teeter of 75 Woolsey street is leader of the A. o. U. w. orchestra recently organized. The other members are N. Dumas, Hood, Reynolds, Fox and Smith.
 Mrs. N. H. Sherwood of Exchange street, who sustained bad hip frac- ture last winter is able to be out on crutches. She can walk little without crutches and hopes to be entirely well in a few weeks. It is said that there have been few such severe fractures without leaving the patient permanent ly crippled.
 Mrs. Henry Preston of No. GA James street has returned from a three weeks visit with her brother in Saybrook, this state.
 The steamer Isaac F. Brown has re- ceived some extensive improvements preparatory to the fall oyster business. The boat has new boiler and engine, and power is much increased. The craft Is now one of the most powerful steam CTS in the oyster fleet. The improve ments were made at McDonald's yard. MT. Browns wharf and oyster shops have also been improved and put in complete repair.
 James Coyne is making extensive Improvements to his three-story frame building on the north side of Grand avenue, corner of Blatchley avenue. The store on the Grand avenue corner was for years occupied by c. T. Con- way, the druggist, until he erected his new building adjoining on the west. The Coyne building Is being moved two and one-half feet to the limit of the lot on the east; the one-story building on the west side, used by MT. Coyne for an office, has been removed and all the available space, about eleven feet, will be utilized on the west side in an addi- tioh to the building, thus giving an ad- ditional store.
 The annual meeting of the Woman's | Home Missionary alliance of the Grand avenue Baptist church was held yester- day afternoon at the home of Mrs | George Kilborn, 20 Woolsey street. The topic of the afternoon was 'The Field | and the Workers" and several papers | were read. Officers elected are as fol- lows: President, Mrs. A. H. Cargill; | vice president, Mrs. William Sheffield: ] secretary and treasurer Mrs. John w. | Hill. The receipts during the year amounted to $60 the largest since the branch was instituted.
 The committee appointed to prepare for the annual autumnal reunion of the Grand avenue Baptist church held its first meeting yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. F. M Wizer, EX- change street. The anniversary will be observed Wednesday, September 29 In the afternoon there will be address es historical sketches, singing etc, and in the evening a short programme will | be provided and a season for sociabil- ity. The usual supper of the Ladies | Aid society will be served early in the evening.
 Miss Mary Maloney of East Chapel | street has returned from stay at City | Island
 Walter Connor has returned from a visit with friends in Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Those who expected to see the super structure of the drawbridge erected in place on the granite piers this week. or at least a beginning in that direction, are disappointed; and the tradespeople say that another in the long chapters of delays is about to be reached. One of the forty-foot sections rests upon the heavy trucks at the corner of Perkins street; several smaller sections have been placed under the great derrick, and the latter, with the hoisting engine, jc du In ha int y,Io But it has been discovered that it will be necessary to fix up the iron work little. The iron has lain in the gravel pit near Cedar Hill station some ten months, and, despite the coating of paint, portions have rusted. It will be necessary to repaint the iron where the portions join before they are put in place, and afterward the exterior iron work will be repainted when the bridge is completed But it is not likely to be a long delay, and one report is to the effect that work in erecting the spans Is to begin next Monday. The Cleve- land Bridge Erecting company of Cleveland, O., has the sub-contract to put up the iron work for the Berlin Iron Bridge company Under the original contract two months are allowed to erect lHe DIluSS, Uul IL IS DelleNcu lndl l the work will require nearer three months. Another month, it is claim ed, will be necessary to pave the road way and complete the finishing touch es. That will bring it to about Febru- ary 1. Two years for building such bridge is looked upon as an unnecessa- rily long period There are five empty stores on East Grand avenue Gone of them having closed this week., and an- other store is selling out preparatory to closing. One of the east side mer- chants ascribes this closing down to the detrimental delay in the building of the bridge, which has practically l.illed trade, and predicts that soon af- ter the new bridge is opened these six stores will be reoccupicd and doing l business again.
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