The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-21
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

the cigar manufacturers, is having
erected. The ground is pretty solid,
but the spiling is being done to make
everything absolutely secure. The
spiles are of spruce and were brought
from our neighboring town of Orange.
The land where the building is being
erected is made" ground, as the wa
tiers of the harbor many years ago flow
ed in creeks in that section and UP
Meadow street
Colonel Healy wants his company of
recruits which he has organized and
offered to the state for the First regi-
ment accepted with it's present officers
as a company of the First. This Colo
mel Burdette has not yet acceded to.
Colonel Healy has offered one COM
pany to Colonel Tyler of the Third regi-
ment, which has been called out, and 1T
is about 500 men short of the maximum
strength prescribed by the war depart
ment.
Company G Of Danbury is now a
company of the First regiment instead
of the Fourth regiment, as formerly.
Captain King was in this city last Sat
urday in conference with Colonel Bur-
dette.e The latter requested Governor
| Cooke to have Company G of Danbury
| transferred to the First regiment This
| was accordingly done and Colonel Bur
dette ordered Captain King to have one
| hundred recruits enlisted.
| Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for
July is strikingly interesting number,
| lnUnt1I n fintinn historical
pers, ETC., and the war Illustrations are
| fine A chapter on 'Some Naval Bat
| ties appropriately opens the number.
| Copies at T. H. Pease & Sons, No. 102
Church street
To-day the gallant old Twelfth G. ",
in which ex-Mayor Hendrick of this
city was a captain, will hold its annual
reunion at Taylor's, Lighthouse Point,
| the business meeting occurring at 10 a.
| m. The shore dinner comes at l o'clock.
The general committee will have it's
headquarters early this forenoon at the
| city hall, where members will meet and
| take a special car for the shore, start
| ing at $3.50.
| The Wolf Tone club yesterday sent a
draft for $100 to John E. Redmond, one
| of the Irish members of parliament,
| to be spent in alternating the sufferings
| of the poor people of Ireland.
| The formal opening of Lighthouse
| Point Grove will take place tomorrow
afternoon.
| Judge cleveland of the probate
court yesterday morning appointed AL
| bert F. WeIles clerk of the court and
James X. Blake assistant clerk. John
Currier Gallagher, who has been clerk
| of the court since Judge Cleaveland
was elected, resigned to accept a per-
manent position as assistant clerk of
the superior court, the judges at their
last meeting deciding that Clerk Ankle
| tell should have two assistants.
| Motor carriages and chainless bicy-
| cless will, it is expected, be manufac-
| tured soon at the factory now occupied
| by the New Haven Chair company, on
| Orange and Audubon streets Isaac
4 N. Damn, purchaser of the Chair com
| pany's plant is interested in the form
! alton of company with capital stock
| of $500, 900 for the making of these mod
ern vehicles. Most of the machinery in
| the present buildings can be used in
the making of the motor carriages. AL
| though an offer has been received to
| build the carriages and chainless bicy-
| cIes at Buffalo, the promoters, owing to
| the convenient Chair company factory,
| are in favor of New Haven. Most of
| the stock will probably be subscribed
| by New Haven people.
A. p. Matthews, landscape architect,
of the Shady Hill Nursery company,
| Boston, has closed contracts with II. B.
4 Ior Dr, al
| Mirick Of the Strong school, Fair Ha-
ven, for an Improvement of the grounds
at their respective residences. He has
in the last year or two planted nearly
| two hundred trees and hundreds of
Towering plants and shrubs on the
grounds of Stephen Whitney on Whit
ney avenue and many at Judge Halls
grounds on Hillhouse avenue.
Inventories filed in the probate court
appraise the estate of the late William
P. Dickerman at $4,000 and that of
Catharine M. Ives at $4,000
goodly fleet of yachts sailed from
our harbor yesterday for New London
to be present at the college races. The
boats included the schooner Dianna
ex-Commodore Human; Christine
Commodore Durham Of the Pequot
club; catboat Castania, the new catboat
Kitten, 2. w. Wright; schooner Adri-
enne, owned by Kelsey and Graham;
the steam yacht Sea Bird, owned by
Mr.. Hubinger, and the sloop Atlanta
owned by Yale student. On board
the Dianna will be a party consisting
of Messrs. Baker, Hinman and Lewis
from the Southern New England Tele-
phone company.
! The men on the Yale battery have re-
ceived assurance that they will soon be
sent south to a camp for drill and after
that sent to the front.
Internal Revenue Collector Thomas
A. Lake has appointed Edison Bryant
of Ansonia deputy collector in the
service and Mr.. Bryant began his du-
ties at the office in this city yester-
day. The new deputy has filed his
bond, and has been sworn in. Deputy
Collector Flahavan, who has been ir
the office for several years, is instruct
ing Mr.. Bryant in the duties of his Of
flee.
| High Sheriff Charles r. Spiegel stat
ed yesterday that he should not ap-
point deputy to take the place of the
late Joseph R. Warren. The sheriff
| says that there are a sufficient number
of sheriffs now.