The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-02
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
JACK FROST DOES CONSIDERABLE
 DAMAGE IN 4 STORE.

DAMAGE IN STORE. Illness of William A. Weissbarth-AnC Con-
 tent Whist Club-Arctic Weather in yer- mont-Milkmen Aetive-The Cold and
 the Motormen-PersonalI Items. A damage of several hundred dollars was caused to the stock in l.. L. Ad- | ler's dry goods store, IA Grand avenue,
 Monday night by the freezing and
 bursting of a water pipe. A large
 amount of stock was drenched with
 water. MT. Adler was taking invento-
 ry of his damaged goods yesterday and
 while he cannot tell as yet the total damage, he says it will reach several
 hundred dollars. When one of his
 clerks came to the store In the morn
 ing the water was leaking through the
 ceiling at furious rate. F. J. Cro-
 nan, the owner of the building, has
 agreed to make MT. Adler's loss good
 The building is what is known as the
 Central hall building.
 l One of Daniel Dore's delivery sleighs
 broke down yesterday afternoon at the
 corner of Grand and Blatchley ave-
 nues.
 l.. c. Strickland, the grocer at No. 9s
 Grand avenue, treated the motormen and conductors of the East Pearl street car line to hot coffee Monday, and the favor was greatly appreciated. MT. Strickland was street car conductor ly,,o l~ fr thize with the railroad men in cold weather.
 | William A. Weissbarth of Exchange street, engineer on the Consolidated road, has been ill for the past ten days with a severe cold. He was out yes- | terady and expects to go to work to- day.
 The All Content Whist club will meet | this evening with MT. and Mrs. F. H | Hemingway of LennoX street. At the
 last gathering of the club, held at Mrs l B. J. Stones. the gentleman's prize, a handsome thermometer, was won by | Welles J. Bray, and the ladies' prize, a handsome, doylie, was secured by Mrs l J. F. Hemingway. 1 Henry Palmer is still very ill with pneumonia.
 | It was not necessary to put on relief men on the Fair Haven and Westville lroad yesterday, but as 1t Is to be much colder they will probably be on duty | tot day The plan is to allow a crew to lay off eighteen minutes at the car house at the end of each trip. On 1.-the Montowese line crew takes the car from Fair Haven to the end of the branch in Montowese, and then are off until the next car arrives. From Mon | towese a car is taken through to West vile, where the men get another op- portunity to warm up.
 A few oyster steamers went out yes terday, but not a large amount of oys- ters were caught.
 Robert c. Hart, who for seven years has been the efficient agent of the Odd
 Fellows Mutual Aid association, has just resigned the position. His duties took him away from home a good deal and he became tired of so much travel ing. He is now selling a patent fire extinguisher. MT. Hart expects to
 make test of his new automatic
 switch turner in the spring. It is in- tended to shift the switches of street railroads from the car platform, and he intends to make a practical test of the device on some car line.
 The Fair Haven and Westyille rail- road had a number of teams carting
 snow from their tracks yesterday. The snow in the vicinity of the car house
 was carted to the open lost just east,
 and the snow further down was taken # hrid an1 son InI into Quinnipiac river.
 Major Luzerne Ludington is plan- ming to take a Washington trip in a 1 few days.
 There was only an afternoon session | of the schools yesterday and the at | tendance was only about half the usu- al number.
 1 c. w. Hemingway writes from South lRoyalston, Vt, that the thermometer stood 26 degrees below zero on Sunday
 morning. He is visiting his son, Cliff l ford Hemingway who is enjoying good l health this winter. MT. Hemingway expects to return home to-morroW. The Fair Haven milkmen are taking out licenses and are having their, milk wagons numbered.
 On Friday morning there will be an anniversary high mass of requiem for
 Mrs. Mary Lanigan in the St. Francis 1 church.
 Mrs. H. w. Storrs of Montowese is visiting friends in Willimantic for a few days.
 valuable horse belonging to Chas. M. Barnes of Montowese was killed on | the railroad recently.
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