The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-10

Annual Meeting of Live Oak Council,
 k. A.-OGicers sElectcd-NnrrowE Escape
 of e Lad While Skating at Heming-
 way's Pond Experience of Captain
 Cross1ey.
 The Fair Haven Choral society will hold it's first concert Wednesday even- ing, December IA, in the parish house of Grace P. E. church, Exchange street, at o'clock. The society will sing a cantata by ]. Becker, "The Gypsies." There will also be a miscellaneous pro-
 gramme by some of the best artists in
 the city.
 The annual meeting of Live Oak council, No. 1927, Royal Arcanum, was held Thursday evening and officers were
 elected as follows: Representative, El-
 mer s. Wade; alternate, Robert o. Bright; regent, Elmer A. Howard; vice
 regent, Frederick A. Scranton orator,
 AN' AA' SSyAS, Petol ISE0lll, llObClI o. Bright; secretary, John W. Kessell;
 collector, George Oldershaw; treasurer,
 George s. Andrews; chaplain, Edgar
 M Butler; guide, Charles T. Hillhouse;
 warden, Frank c. Bush; sentry, Will
 liam Andrew; organist, George s. Adams; trustee for three years, Frank
 10. Hull. The installation will take
 place on the evening of January 12. The steam barge Cleary arrived in the harbor yesterday with HOO barrels
 of Rosendale cement for w. A. War
 ner & Bro. The barge will come up to
 the wharf to-day.
 lad, skating on thin ice on Hem
 ingway pond, a day or two go, broke
 through and was rescued by George
 Bradley. The present cold weather
 ought to make good and safe skating
 at the pond.
 Captain James G. Crossley of BIO Exchange street, who brought his ves- sel successfully through the recent great storm, will remain on shore dur ing the next trip of the schooner Alice Phillips, as he is obliged to testify in court in charter case down east. The schooner now in Bridgeport will go out in charge of the mate. The Phillips
 was overtaken in the gale of two weeks
 ago to-day when off the coast of New Jersey. The barometer ran down to 2S.90, and in his seventeen years exper- fence at sea he had never seen the glass
 run down so rapidly nor so low. He
 was convinced hurricane was ap-
 preaching and he decided to anchor. The vessel was then about twenty five
 miles off Absecorn, N. J., and Captain Crossley decided 1t was better to an- chor than to be driven out to sea, so he put down two anchors and ninety fathoms of cable. But the vessel leaked very little and the steam pumps | readily cleared her. The captain had just put in new windlass and it held
 we'll and saved the vessel The schoon-
 CT remained at anchor until early Mon day morning, when it was decided to proceed and the craft arrived at Bridge port without damage. The captain had an excellent crew from St. Johns, New i foundland. It was pretty risky anchor ing out to sea with the schooner pitch | ing jibboom under and the seas sweep ing the decks, but under the circum- stances Captain Crossley believes 1t was the best thing he could do. It was by far the toughest experience he ever had at sea. In the blizzard of 1888 his vessel, the James Boyce, was blown to sea, and it was fifteen days before the craft returned, and at one time there was six feet of water in the hold. Captain Crossley believes that the schooner Hanscom, which came out of Hampton Roads at about the time he did was in the vicinity of the Phillips ! when she anchored. He thinks the
 Hanscom ran out to sea and will return in safety.