The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-03
OF LOCAL INTEREST.


 The party of Yale zoologists consist ing of Professor A. E. verril1, c. M. Clark, jr., '97, W. E. Porter, S. S. S., and c. s. Verrill, $. s. S., has returned from the Bermudas, bringing a very valuable collection of corals and ma rine animals. The expedition was In every way successful.
 The Cosy Beach extension of the New Haven Street railway will be opened in two weeks. Owing to the protracted rains the work of building it was de- 1ayed.
 At the Yale corporation meeting last Tuesday the clerical members voted to fill the vacancy made by the death of Rev. Dr. George Bushnell of this city. In Dr. Bushnell's place Rev. Dr. Au- gustus F. Beard of Norwalk was chos-
 en. Dr. Beard is Yale graduate of
 the class of '57.
 Captain Oscar l.. Bradley of Meriden,
 who commands Company I, Second
 regiment, has written Governor Cooke
 offering to raise a company of volun- teers for the war with Spain It Is probable that Captain Bradley could enlist a. large number of the members
 of the company he commands He was formerly member of the general assembly and was secretary of the committee on military affairs during
 his term.
 Henry Bristol, who formerly kept a general store at Westville but who is
 now retired, while jumping from a car of the Fair Haven and Westville rail- road was thrown to the pavement and
 quite seriously injured. He was taken
 to his home on Franklin street, where Dr. Baker attended him.
 Highway Commissioner Macdonald has approved the contract of the town
 of Hamden with the Williams & Dew hirsch company of Bridgeport for build ing a macadam road at $1.05 per 1ineal foot
 R. B. Holmes has accepted the posi- tion of night clerk at the New Haven house. MT. Holmes is one of the best
 known hotel clerks in the state and a favorite with the travelling public. For seven years he was at the Tontine and later with the Majestic.
 J. H. Starkweather, superintendent of the New Haven hospital, has not yet
 received any trace of the pocketbook which he lost on Wednesday, May 25.
 The book contained $139 in money and
 $363.61 In checks. He placed it on the ledge at the postoff1ce stamp window
 while engaged in buying stamps, and, 1nft IA his loss in two minutes afterward and
 returned, but the pocketbook was gone. The city hall elevator went on a
 rampage yesterday. In the absence of
 MT. Gardner, the attendant, it started off on its own hook and ran up to the ceiling, where the safety clasps caught and held 1t. No damage was done and l the machine was working again all | right in a short time.
 i The board of directors of the free public library yesterday filed in the mayors office their annual report for | the past four months, ending with April | 30 The number of volumes issued to patrons during that time was 105, ,SSS, an increase of 1890 over the circulat tion i for the same period the previous year. 1 This was an increase of about 8 per cent The number of volumes added was 2,301, an increase of 2S9, or IA per cent increase over that of last year. | The number of new cards issued was l 3,051, an increase of 400, or IA per cent, over last year. From fines on overdue | books the directors received $1S0 the past year. The appropriation by the l city was $14,211.66, and the expenditures | footed up to $4,554.12 The balance left | is $2,657.54. Out of the Marett fund | there has been paid for books $1, ,609 ST. 1 The East Haven democrats held a caucus Wednesday night and nominat- | ed five candidates for places on the school board. Only twelve citizens were present at the meeting. The men l nominated are George J. Futile, Henry Thompson, w. K. Stevens, Samuel R. | Chidsey and F. Foote Thompson. Assistant Postmaster Futile was on duty selling stamps Wednesday night until midnight to ascertain just how much work these sales entail upon the night clerks. He ascertained that the | best portion of one mans time is taken, although he sold only about $3 worth of stamps. He was convinced that these night sales were calculated to interfere | considerably with the duties of the I clerks in their regular work Ere quently when only one stamp is sold a clerk has to travel 150 feet to make the | sale, and more if he has to make change. It is often the case that the ! bell rings thirty or forty times in an | hour, calling for a clerk to sell stamp l or two. In view of this the postmas-