The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-19
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
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 SIDES OF THE RIVER.

Christmas Sale and Entertainment at ChapeI-The Rev. J. Mitchell Home
 After n Two Weeks Vacation Other Notes,
 ternoon with Mrs. James McMahon of Blatchley avenue. The committee has provided a Christmas programme, which includes a shipping party.
 A Christmas sale and entertainment will be given tomorrow evening in the chapel of the Grand avenue Baptist church, arranged by the Ladies Aid society. The entertainment will include shadowgraph productions by R. c. Hart, humorous dialogue, vocal and instrumental music, recitations, etc. A large array of fancy and useful articles will be on sale. The admission is only ten cents.
 Miss Nora A. Sage has returned from Wellesley college for the holidays.
 Rev. B. R. Bennett preached at the Grand avenue Baptist church yesterday morning.
 Next Friday evening an entertain- ment and Christmas tree for the Sum day school will be given in Park chapel
 Rev. J. Lee Mitchell, who has been away two weeks has returned, and preached at the Grand avenue Congre- gational church yesterday. He has been visiting his parents on his plan- tation at Amelia Court House, Va.
 Miss Martha Schneider of Montowese has returned from New York.
 Mrs. M A. Robinson and her daugh- ter, Mrs. Belle Robinson Slater of New York, have been the guests of Mrs. Willis B. Hemingway.
 Two new motors of seventy-five horse power have been placed in the sweeper of the Fair Haven and Westville rail- road. formerly used by the New Ha- ven Street railway. The sweeper will be much more powerful than formerly and it is believed will be able to cope with quite a blizzard.
 The big electric motor of the Manu- facturers' railway which has been re- paired and improved, was in use on Saturday. New armatures have been put in under the direction of one of the
 
 and new tires have been placed on the wheels at the Consolidated road repair shops. The new tires have raised the motor higher from the truck than for merly, which is marked improvement. During the two weeks that the motor has been laid np, open car Mo- 76 of the Fair Haven and Westville railroad has been in use hauling cars to and from | tha ;,, Haven and Motorman George w. ! Dadmun has been in charge. Charles 1 Silke, motorman of the Manufacturers railway, has been assisting in repairing the motor To make the wheels of the open car adhere to the rails in hauling the heavy loads it was necessary to weight it down with 5,400 tons of iron. 1 Week before last the freight transports I ed over the line was the heaviest in the history of the road, sixty-seven loaded cars having been run over the line, and twenty-six light cars, besides large amount of switching done in the yard of the Fair Haven rolling mill, where the sidings have capacity for for ten cears. On Friday Motorman Dadmun brought down from Cedar Hill car with it's ladng of iron weighing 1O6,OO4 pounds. There were also pulled two cars with 161O00 pounds of iron. He has also been able to transfer seven cars in one train. This is pretty good work for an open car not constructed for a freight motor The motor which is again in use weighs thirty tons This road is now doing large freight busi- ness and the success which was prom sed when it was projected has already 1 been reached.