The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-07
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
OFFICERS or QUINNIPIAC CON
 CLAHE, I. o. H., ERECTED.

The Ferryboat Lady FenwiclS, sunk in
 The Recent storm, Was Built in Fair
 HoVen-Captain Isaac Brown Tells of
 Ills Experience in Recent Voyage -
 Other News.
 The members of Quinnipiac conclave, No' SlS' Improved Order of Heptasophs,
 held their annual election Monday eve
 hing and officers were elected as follows:
 Archon, H. L. Hunt: provost, Robert
 C. Hart; treasurer. Walter R. Downes;
 financier, Ezra Healy; secretary, A. w.
 Beecher; prelate, L. D. Camp; sentinel,
 A. l.. Northrop; warden, George c.
 Marks; trustees, F. S. Wade, D. B.
 Connell, A. E. Halliday. The date for the installation has not
 been decided, but it will probably oc-
 cur the third Monday evening in Janu-
 ary. Some of the members have sug- gested that it would be advisable to hold a public installation and invite
 the wives and lady friends of the
 members. If that is done a banquet
 will be served after the meeting.
 Fort Hale lodge, N. E. o. P, has nom-
 mated officers as follows: Warden, E.
 l.. Beard; vice warden, Mrs. Eva J.
 French; for chaplain, Mrs. Elizabeth
 Fogarty and Miss Nellie Brooks; secre-
 tary, John G. Hurd; financial secretary, William s. Rowe; treasurer, D. A. Hummer, and w. H. Russell; for
 guide, E. J. Whellan and Louis Schlich- CT; for guardians, Miss Nellie Brooks and Mrs. Anna Sullivan; outside guard, J. E. Fuller and Louis Sleicher;
 trustee, Charles o. Francis. The elec- tion will take place,at the next meeting to be held on Friday evening of next | week.
 The steam ferryboat Lady Fenwick, which was sunk in the recent storm in the Connecticut river, just above the Shore Line bridge at Lyme, was built by George M. Graves at the Fair Haven yard several years ago. The boat piled between Lyme and Saybrook. An ef- fort will soon be made to raise the boat. Captain Isaac E. Brown, who has ar rived home from Providence, in speak 1 ing of the rough voyage of his steamer to that port, said: T was out in the storm a week ago Saturday, and it was the closest call I ever had. We were l towing a couple of spars from New London to Providence, and were off | Watch Hill at about 1 o'clock on the | afternoon that the great storm began | As we rounded the Point I noticed it | looked very black to the eastward and | indicating that bad storm was near. | Having the snars to tow 1 decided to | turn about and make for Stonington, | which we did. We had a pretty rough run to Stonington and reached there l just in time, for the snow had begun and it was blowing hard. If I had not
 had the tow I would have kept on and | then we would all have been lost, for | in the thick storm we could have made | nc harbor If I had kept the steamer
 going an hour longer I am sure we | could not have returned. There were | five of us on the boat, and I am sure we had a very narrow escape. We moored the steamer at a pier in Ston- | ington and at the other side of the
 pier schooner sank in the storm. The
 gale kept the boat away from the wharf | although we had our lasts out and we were not able to lard until the follow 1 ing Monday"
 The East Pearl street Chautauqua i circle met Monday evening with Miss
 Bristol of Exchange street. The pro- gramme included roll call, response 1 with an original couplet on winter, talk
 on "Current Events,' a paper on "The
 Russian Peasantry," by c. Shaner, and | several musical numbers.