The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-08
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED BY GUM
NIPIAO OONCLAYE, 1. o. III.

NIPIIC CONCLAPB, IL " ne
Travelling Crane on Draw OF the New
Bridce-An Interesting Piece of Mech
anism-Religious Services in Morris
Cove ChapeI-East Haven School Chill
tlren to be Carried to School.
Quinnipiac Conclave, No. 313, I. o. H.,
on Monday evening elected officers as
follows: Archon, Charles A. Rowe;
provost, II. L. Hunt; secretary, A, w.
Beecher; treasurer, Walter R Downes;
financier, Ezra Healyi prelate, Henry
w. Russell; inspector, l.. B. Camps;
warder, Charles L. Warner; sentinel, A.
Il. Northrop; trustees, John w. Roland,
fillmore S. Wade, Daniel B. Connell.
Deputy Supreme Organizer Frank p.
Tyler and District Deputy Supreme
Archon E. S. Wade We're present at the
meeting.
Religious services are being held every
evening this week in Park chapel, Nor
ris Cove.
The appraisal of the estate Of the late
Rev. Father Mulholland shows the
amount to be $1S,521.75.
Under the division of school districts,
the children at South End will come
into the Union school district of East
Haven and the selectmen and school
visitors of that town have decided to
pay for their transportation to and
from East Haven village, the selectmen
to make the contract. The board Of
education of New Haven would make a
charge of $25 per annum if the children
continued at school in the South dis
trict
Some fine Rockaway oysters have
been brought in to a number of the
local oystermen this season by George
Smith of City Point, schooner of 1900
bushels capacity having made several
trips. These oysters are fat and of fine
flavor and command a ready sale.
An attempt has been made by Cap
tain T. A. Scott of New London to raise
the schooner Edward Mclaughlin,
which is sunk off Point Judith. This
schooner ran to Fair Haven many trips
from Long Island with starch feed. The
attempt to float the schooner failed, the
chain which had been placed under the
hull having parted. Captain Scott ex-
poets to float the vessel at the next
trial
The travelling crane in place on the
draw Of the new bridge Is an interest
ing piece of construction. 1t is built
Of timber, heavily trussed, and the top
is about go feet above the roadway
of the bridge. 1t is used For swinging
the heavy sections of the draw super
structure into place and these sections
rise to a heighth Of 40 feet above the
bridge. The crane rests on wheels run
ming on a track by means Of which
the bridge parts can be swung into
place as desired. The crane was de-
signed and constructed under the direc-
ton OF Superintendent Manary, who is
erecting the bridge, and he has had
them in use in building many heavy
bridges.
The superstructure Of the bridge has
remained in the gravel pit near Cedar
Hill station several months, having
been delivered by the Berlin Iron
Bridge company. The sections were
badly rusted and Superintendent Man
airy had force varying from to IL
men scraping the rust off in the Cedar
Hill yard for month and a great deal
of cleaning has been done on the
bridge site. The sections were painted
one coat, but in spots the coating was
removed and the rust had begun eating
into the iron. Superintendent Manary
says he began on the job just in time
and with much farther delay the bridge
would have been seriously injured. The
cost for cleaning the rust alone will
amount to several thousand dollars. The
superintendent says the bridge com.
pany delivered the iron with the expec-
tation that it would be used at once and
made no calculation for its remaining
over a year in the gravel pit. He is
very glad he started on the job just as
he did, else the sections would have
been seriously injured by rust, which
would have made serious inroads into
the iron. The life of this bridge is esti.
mated at 140 years. Superintendent
Manary says at the end Of that time il
will have paid for itself several times
and it will be time to- replace it with
new structure.