The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-28
RECEPTION TO JUDGE BRYANT
PHEASANT AFFAIR AT HIS HOME
 LAST EVENING.

Eminent Commander of New Haven
 Commandery, Knights Templar, Hon-
 ored by the Members of Tint Body
 Two Hundred Guests Present.
 The members of New Haven com mandery, No ?, Knights Templar, and their ladies spent an evening at the home of Judge Samuel J. Bryant, Il Elm street, West Haven, last night, that will always be remembered and looked upon as one of the pleasantest of their lives.
 It was the occasion of a purely in- formal reception given by New Haven commandery in honor of Judge Bryant, who is their eminent commander. The commandery includes all the sir knights in the county of New Haven and there were members present from several neighboring towns. The guests numbered about 200. Most of them as- sembled at the central Green and at s o'clock took special cars on the Win chester avenue line for the judges beautiful home. On their arrival ev- eryone was made to feel perfectly at home by the heartiness of the manner 1 in which they were received. The spacious house and lawn were thrown open to the use of the guests. The receiving party were Judge and Mrs. |, Bryant, Dr. Phillips of Ansonia and w. 1 A. Brown and wife. The corps of ush- 1 CTS, all members of the commandery, assisted in making the evening spent by the guests a pleasant one. They were 1 Captain c. E. Rounds, J. c. Crabb, F.
 G. Crabb, Willis M. Anthony and G. 1 A. French. Many of the knights were | in uniform. After short season of social conversation in the house all re- paired to the lawn, where they listened to an elegant concert by the American | band under the direction of Frank
 Fichtl. A programme of popular clas- 1 slcal and patriotic music was rendered
 and much enjoyed by all. The lawn
 was gaily decorated with Chinese Ian
 terms, while vari-colored lights were kept burning constantly. The fireworks
 were an attractive part of the evening. Among other things was a string of
 over one thousand small and large fire crackers. which were fastened on post and touched off. The effect was very pleasing.
 | The fireworks were sandwiched in between the various numbers of the band and caused the evening to pass all too quickly. Light refreshments were also served. About 10:30 all pres
 ent formed a line and headed by the band marched around the yard They drew up in front of the house and sang | tAuld Lang Syne'' and gave three rous-
 ing cheers for Judge Bryant. All re- l turned to the city on special cars about
 il o'clock.
 There was an interesting couple pres
 ent, MT. and Mrs w. N. Gessner of l Whitneyville. Both are over eighty
 years of age and Mir Gessner has been
 a member of New Haven commandery
 for forty-seven years.
 l The officers present beside Eminent ! Commander Bryant were c. G. James R. B. Bolton, Prelate Albert H. Mat | toon, Senior Warden F. F. Wilmot, ! Junior Warden Bunce Gilchrest War 1 der John H. Peace, Recorder Francis G. Anthony.
 Among those present were: Past Eminent Commander c. ID. Hoadley and wife, Past Eminent Commander D. R.
 Alling and wife, Past Eminent Com- mander Willis L. Mix and wife, Past Eminent Commander Quintard, Dr. and Mrs M F. Linquist, George A. Tucker and wife, Elizur Sperry and daughter, H. A. Konold and wife r.
 S. Andrews and wife, F. l.. Lindsley
 and wife, George A. Lewis and wife, J. A. Stannard and wife, John McCarA
 thy, F. H. Sperry L. w. Sperry and
 wife, R. N Burwell and wife, L. Bost- wick and wife, w. A. Jackson and wife, w M. King and wife, Colonel W. J. Miller and wife. John N Mix and wife, John Fl. Post and wife, F. W. Post and
 wife, W. F. Russell and wife, H. A. Stevens and wife, H. G. Simons and
 wife E. H. Smith and wife, George T.
 Smith and wife, Dr. A. w. Phillips,
 Cyrus W. Futile and wife Henry
 Sperry and wife Arthur Treat, H. R.
 Sperry, James Totham and wife, c. w. 1 Tuttle and wife, G. H, Thompson and wife Charles Vishno and wife, F. N.
 Wilmot and wife, L. H. Waldron and wife, John Davis and wife, H. Parma lee and wife, N. F. Futile, H. w.