The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-04-27
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ment in event Of their services being
needed.
Some four hundred men are now en-
gagged at Gull and Plum islands at the
eastern entrance of the sound com"
pleting the Notifications. Gangs of
men are working day and night for
several weeks and operations have not
ceased for an hour during the past
three weeks. The monster excavations
wherein the emplacements are being
gotten ready for disappearing guns
form an interesting portion of the
work.
The Postal Telegraph company have
equipped their full force of messenger
boys with new uniforms. The suits
just received are of a blush gray and
are very attractive. Previously the
Postal uniforms have been of light
gray.
Mayor Frederick B. Farnsworth has
just received a documents from the or
ganization known as the National Vol
unteer Reserve. At the head of the
body are Lieutenant General John M.
Schofield, General Wade Hampton and
General James Longstreet. They urge
that all the able-bodied men in the
country not already enrolled in a mill
tary organization enlist in the National
Volunteer Reserve.
The four-masted schooner Wallace
Ward of this port, Captain Kelsey,
was due to leave Tampa yesterday
| morning for Perth Amboy with a cargo.
The Ward will pass within a short dis
lance of where the Spanish West In
dian fleet is supposed to be, but Lieu
tenant Governor Dewell said yesterday
| morning that he hoped she would get
by all right. No extra insurance had
| been placed upon her. Captain Kelsey
her commander, belongs in Clinton and
is engaged to be married upon his re-
| turn from the south.
Frederick Post, superintendent of
| the Denison Electric Engine company,
| is receiving congratulations. He says
| it is a soprano. Mother and daughter
are doing nicely.
| A horse bought recently by John R.
| Rembert, the Crown street stationer,
| took fright at some object at the cor
ner of Crown and Church streets at
1870 yesterday afternoon and ran away.
| The wagon was overturned and Mr.
! Rembert thrown out, but he held on
to the lines and stopped the horse. No
| damage was done except a wrecking to
| the wagon. There were narrow es-
capes from collisions with other teams.
The "preliminaries" for the Wayland
prize debate before the Yale Kent club
have been held and the following men
We're chosen to take part in the final
debate: Arvine, Hewitt, Human,
Powell, Sheppard, Sonnenberg, Studin-
ski and Ullman.
| The throngs of people at the armory
was great again yesterday, and there
| seems to be no abatement in the inter-
est in the Spanish war. The feature
of the day was the drill by the COM
pany of Yale cavalry. About thirty
| men reported yesterday but the com
| pany is to be much larger.
The biennial council of Colonial
| Danes has voted to organize a relief
corps for the aid of the wounded and
distressed in the war.
This evening in st. Paul's parish
house the ladies of the parish will hold
a reception, to which they have in
| vited every one in any way associated
| with st. Paul's.
| The Rev. G. O'Day, Yale ~, who was
shortstop for several seasons on the
| Yale nine, a prominent and widely
known graduate, was in this city yes
terday settling his affairs preparatory
to going to the front with the Vermont
regiment, of which he is chaplain.
| Teddy Edwards, the wheelman, who
started out on January 1, 1898, to ride
100 miles every day for 365 consecutive
days, Is stopping at the fremont house
in this city for three or four days. He
left the fremont at 1850 o'clock yes
terday morning on his 116th century
run. His manager and trainer accom-
panied him Edwards Is riding on a
wager of $1,000.
Simons & Co, the pawnbrokers, yes
terday leased the store at 6s Church
street, lately occupied by John A. Nc
Kee, from Edward P. Merwin of New
York. There is also an entrance at &C
Center street. The term of the lease is
for five years at $4,000 year.
Word has been received from Prof
George J. Brush, director of the scien-
tific department of Yale, that he will
leave California in few days, and
that he expects to return to Yale by
the middle of May. He is enjoying his
stay on the Pacific coast and will re-
turn much stronger in health. In his
absence Prof Russell H. Chittenden
has charge of the Sheffield Scientific
school.
Mayor Farnsworth has received a
letter from Representative Henry E.
Baldwin of Woodbridge, asking that
his name be sent in as volunteer Mr.
Baldwin is son of Marcus e. Bald
win, "the mayor of Woodbridge" and
represented the town of Woodbridge in
the legislature last session.
At the annual election at the First M
e. church Tuesday evening the result
is as follows: Treasurer, L. Herrick
secretary, w. I'll. Kirschner; treasurer
of charities, N. J. Beers; finance COM
mittee, Henry H. Benedict, Charles l.
Baldwin, Lewis Herrick, Isaac N. Damn
and Noah A. Fullerton; reception and
public worship committee, Charles A
Baldwin, William Kirschner, Bernard
B. Savage, Edward N. Botsford and
Nathan J. Beers: church property COM
mittee, N. A. Fullerton, William P
Dickerman and Lewis Herrick; pew
committee, Lewis Herrick, George R