The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-01

occupies as meriting the help of the churches of Christ.
 The officers of the New Haven Street Railroad company supplied hot coffee to their men yesterday. After each trip the motormen and conductors found the beverage awaiting them in the companys office in the Exchange building. The treat was very much appreciated by the employees.
 s. M. Tarr, who succeeds Observer Myers in the local weather office, was on duty yesterday. Observer Myers terminates his duties here to-day and then leaves for Washington, D. C., to receive detailed instructions before go- ing to Alaska to establish a govern ment weather office. He probably will locate at Dawson City. He predicts it will be some time before the proposed office is connected by telegraph with | the states, but with the growing im- rortance of that region the people re- quire the service of weather predic- l tionS.
 A large collection of the paintings | of Professor John H. Niemeyer of the | Yale Art school will be placed on ex- | hibition in the parlors of the Gradu-, l ates' club.
 | The Schenectady Locomotive works delivered two big freight engines to the | Consolidated road yesterday. The en- | zines were sent to Providence at Il l o'clock to be used on the Old Colony division. They are the first of an order l of twenty. The new moguls were made from plans prepared and fur | nished by John Henney, superintend- ent of motive power. They have cylin- ders 20 by 2S inches and are very pow erful, capable of hauling $500 tons on a level. They will be permitted how ever, to hail only fifty-five loaded cars. l They have six drivers on a side and a pony truck and rest on ten wheels, givng them a great leverage on the rails. Each engine weighs 144,O00 pounds and the loaded tender 9S,000 pounds, so the entire machine, when ready to pull out a train, will weigh, say 121 tons. The tank carries 4,500 gallons of water and the bunkers six tons of coal. Their steam pressure is 19O pounds to the square inch and boil CTS of the best type and construction. They are ponderous looking machines T and will greatly aid the freight equip ment
 The Holy Name society of the Church of the Sacred Heart will attend com munion in that church Sunday, Feb ruary 13. In the evening there will be public service and the new members will be professed. An out of town clergyman will deliver the sermon, and the societies of St. Mary's and St. Johns churches will be invited to att tend.
 Stamford following the good example set by New Haven and other cities, is to have a business mems association. The Stamford plan is to have sixty
 members, each of whom shall pledge
 $100 year to be used to advance the
 interests of the town.
 The Rev. Father Russell of St. Pat
 ricks church Sunday morning made
 an annual report to his congregation
 on the financial condition of the parish ! The receipts for the year amounc tt , about $15,000 and practically $14o00 has
 been disbursed for the running ex.
 penses, debt and Improvements on the 2 parish property. The present condition
 of the parish finances Is most satisfac
 tory. There are something like 6,00
 people now in St. Patricks parish. x Captain Moves of the big Klondik,
 party which left this state last week V writes from west of Chicago that tn,
 party has special train which is mak :, ing remarkable time. Sentries ar kept posted as a safeguard agains
 robbers.
 The board of fire commissioners vii
 meet this evening for the purpose 0
 attending to the regular business o
 the department and also to open bid
 for two new combination hose wagon
 and chemical engines which are to b '. used in the two new fire houses whicl have been built in the Tenth an l Twelfth wards. These engines are s
 equipped that when the firemen ar V first called to house they can talk the hose connected with the chemica q attachments of the wagon and use tha f to put out the fire. At the same tim | hosemen will take the regular wate a hose with which the wagon is equippe and attach that to the nearest hy k drant. The fire board committee o apparatus and house will open bids fo l. house heaters for engine houses Min
 and Ten tonight at o'clock. Tester U day morning the only bid received wa J from the American Fire Engine com pany.
 d Nathan Simon was instrumental i
 
 T. worth about $300, which was lost by guest at the Prom. The promenad d. committee will not give the name
 the person to whom the jewel belonge, d. MT. Simon had charge of the propert
 of the Yale men at the armory on tt d- evening of the Prom. A number , other articles lost have been recovere ~ Gustav Lindvall, sexton of the Uni Is ed church, on the Green, discovered
 fire in the belfry Sunday morning. Is, fire had started from a defective flu
 and the woodwork in the belfry ws Is, .ablaze when he was about to ring tf
 bell for the morning service. Lindva H. put the fire out.
 ,s Colonel A. c. Friedman of the firm Or H. c. Friedman & Co.,, bankers ar tn brokers of New York who have an O 'te fee in the Poli building, this city, tel
 graphed yesterday to N. A. Tai If ner, manager of the company's brand ~ office here, that he would come to tn
 city at once and would apply for wa
 rant to arrest Councilman Max Fishe
 who formerly had charge of the off
 here, on the charge of embezzlemer
 There was loss of $500 or $500 and u
 l Iosses were due it is alleged, to M