The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-26
OF LOCALI INTEREsT.

A large attendance IS indicated TOT the concert tonight at Harmonic hall for the benefit of Mrs. Michaelson. Tickets are fifty cents each, and are for sale at Steinert's. A delightful concert is assured. The programme in full was printed yesterday
 A large party of friends was gather- ed at the residence of MT. and Mrs. C.. w. Blakeslee on George street near Waverly street last evening, the occa- sion being the celebration of the birth day of Mrs. Blakeslee. The evening was most enjoyable society event in all respects and was enlivened by mu- sic, games and the serving of a bounti- full supper of tempting delicacies. The meeting adjourned all wishing the host and hostess very many years of unal- loved happiness.
 The parade of the police and fire de- partments has been postponed until the first week in June.
 The City Guard turned out in full ranks yesterday morning at the ar mory for their field day. They left in a pouring rain at a. m. for the shooting range in Westville. The afternoon was spent in field work and extended for nation.
 Miss Mary G. French of this city will read a lecture on Wagner's "Lo- hengrin" this evening at 8 o'clock in Varina hall IS Court street Bridgeport. Miss French will illustrate the lecture briefly upon the piano forte. Miss Florence Klein of the park quartet will sing. The lecture is under the aus pices of the Universal Brotherhood lodge. Miss French also lectured re- gently in Bridgeport before the Theos- ophich society.
 Mrs. John F. Corr and children, of Bridgeport, are visiting her mother, Mrs. Healy of 1114 State street
 Amos Griswold of Guilford has re- turned home after visit to his daugh- ter, Mrs. L. A. Kimberly. MT. Griswold is ninety years old, but is as spry as most men at seventy
 Ex-Governor Waller and S. Harrison Wagner have sent cards and to this city and elsewhere announcing that they have formed a new partnership under the name of Waller & Wagner, 15 Wall street, New York. With them are Robert K. Waller. the governors son, and Schuyler c. Carlton.
 Mrs. T. s. Kinney, state regent of the daughters of the American Revo- lution, left yesterday morning for New London, where she will meet Miss Has sen, the nurse who Is to be sent to the hxyf In Mo, oh a ter, D. A. R. From New London Mrs. Kinney will go on to Norwich for the fifth general conference of the Connec- ticut chapters, D. A. R., to be held there to-day.
 The Rev. G. Brinley Morgan, rector of Christ church. probably accompan- jed by Mrs. Morgan will sail for Er- rope early in June, spending the sum-
 mer abroad.
 A frame house will be erected on the
 Boulevard by Mrs. Mary Walp. Itwill
 be two stories high and costing s3,000. The Mary Clap Wooster chapter, D. A. R., has recently added to its store
 of relics copy of the first prayer
 made in congress, and by a cream pitcher which depicts the landing of
 Lafayette at Castle Garden in 1924 Natle Avunto will shortly erect a neat looking four story brick tenement house at 164 Fair street. The building will be large enough to quarter eight families and will cost 5000.
 Mrs. Jean Pardee Clark. who Is at Saratoga, will return in a day to two, leaving again in a short time for that e., c1,a xr-i7I ho
 summer. She will contribute news let
 ters of the life at the springs to some of the New York dailies, and articles
 for some of the magazines.
 Dr. Arthur L. Day, Yale '92, who re- signed his position as instructor in
 physics at Yale last June, to pursue a course in experimental physics in Eu- l rope, has just been appointed a mem-
 Der of the regular staff of physicists
 attached to the governmental survey at Charlottenburg-the Physikalisch-
 techinsche Reichstastalt = of which
 Prof. Kohlrausch is the head. pr. Day
 is the first foreigner to receive a sala-
 ried position at this institution, which
 includes in it's membership some of the
 most prominent German physicists,
 men of international reputation. Miss Ellen Strong Bartlett of this city, whose writings have brought her into prominence here, has been invited to read paper at the May meeting of the New England society of Brooklyn Her subject will be "John Trumbull the Patriot Painter" An Evening of
 Music in New England" has been ar
 ranged, the interesting programme be- ing composed entirely of songs by New
 England writers and nearly all ot
 whom are residents of the New Eng land states.
 Miss Henrietta Heitman of West Ha- ven is in Washington, D. O., with her cousin, Miss Katheryn Ward. Early next month Miss Heitman will go to her cottage at Woodmont, near Colo nial park. Miss Frances Prescott will spend part of the summer with her. Lillian M. Hollister hive No. 7 La dies of the Maccabees, held a May fes- tival at St. Aloysius hall last evening. A fine entertainment was given, after which there was dancing. The pro-
 gramme for the entertainment was as follows: Overture, orchestra; vocal se- lection, Miss Anna J. King; recitation Master John Tierney; vocal selection Miss Rose O'Brien; violin and piano duet, Miss Mary and Master James Stanford; recitation, Miss Agnes Fin nigan; vocal selection, Master James Stanford; vocal selection, P. McCar-