The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-12
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
ITENS OF INTEREST FROM BOTH
 SIDES OF THE RIVER.

Fire Departments of the Annex to Pa-
 rade-ChapeI Street Foot Bridge Nearly
 Completed-Praise for Degree of M onor
 Lodges-sunday School Exercises.
 A parade will be held in the annex tomorrow (Tuesday) night in which the Dayton Hook and Ladder Co. of thirty-fve men, the Annex Hose Go. No. 1 of twenty-five men, and the An nex Hose Co. No. 2 of twenty men, will participate. The occasion is the dedication of the new engine house on Forbes avenue, which was completed last May. Circumstances have prevent ed the proper celebration worthy of such an event, during the summer so it was decided to hold the affair In con- junction with the annual inspection. The parade starts at o'clock Tuesday night or the same time on the next night, If stormy weather prevails, ob- serving the following line of march: Engine house on Forbes avenue to Townsend avenue, to Quinnipiac ave nue, to Grand avenue, to East Pearl street, to Fairmount avenue, to be dis missed at the engine house. The pa rade composed of the eighty men of the three before mentioned companies, with their engines and hose carts. will be headed by the workmans band of twenty-one pieces. Red fire will be liberally burned along the proposed route. Upon dismissal luncheon will be served to the firemen and their friends. The committee In charge con- sists of Chief Robert Meachem, Alder men Sidney Kelsey and D. Burton Brown. A subcommittee is composed of Foremen Morgan F. Fowler of Day ton H. and l.. Co.,. Millet Meeker of Annex Hose Go. No. 1 and Joseph H. Denton of Annex Hose Co. No. 2. The affair promises to be very successful one in which all the residents are ex- pected to participate.
 The new footbridge above the East Chapel street drawbridge will be com pleted and ready for use in a couple of days. The temporary draw is to be a | float sixty feet long, which will be swung back and forth by means of a heavy rope and tackle. It is not be- lieved that this float can be swung to allow vessels to proceed through the 1 footbridge as quickly as the regular draw, and some detention to pedestri- ans is anticipated. The tracks have been taken up to allow the workmen tc begin on the new bridge. On Saturday men were engaged in erecting a heavy l derrick on the west side of the bridge | to be used in removing the present l structure.
 l The free Kindergarten in the Ferry street church will open tomorrow Miss Frances Lambert has been engag 1 ed as principal and she will be assisted by teachers from Miss Kings kinder 1 garten school. Children between tht ages of three and five years inclusive will be admitted.
 The Boys brigade has been formed tc meet in the Ferry street church to- morrow evening. The Boys club vii meet on Saturday.
 | The secretary of the Connecticut Hu mane society recently called attention l to the wanton shooting of seagulls by alleged sportsmen along the shores be tween Lyme and New London. Larg l numbers of these birds congregat along the Quinnipiac river flats, espe cially in the fall and winter, but the, are seldom disturbed.
 Yesterday was observed as rally day in the Sunday school of the East Pear street M. E. church. The lessons wer, omitted and special exercises were helC including an address by the pastor Rev. MT. McNicholl; remarks by Rev MT. Abbott; reports from teachers ant singing by the school. The teacher had visited their classes during tn, preceding week. All of the pupils wer
 present excepting a few who are il and all the teachers were present say
 one, who is away on vacation. Tn affair was very pleasant and encGurag ing to all the workers.
 At the Grand avenue Congregations church yesterday morning Dr. Mitchel administered baptism to two infants Edward Ruel Wilson and Walter Wick
 man.
 | Next Sunday the Sunday school o
 the Grand avenue Congregations
 church will observe the noon hour il rally day exercises.
 One evening last week the member
 of Elm City ladge, Degree of Honor
 No. z, paid a surprise visit to Gertrud
 Piercy, chief of honor of the lodge, a
 her home in Quinnipiac avenue. Ther
 was vocal and instrumental music, re
 treatments were served and the affai was very pleasant for all
 The kindergarten of Miss Carrie M
 Chapman at Ferry and Pierpont stree will open for the fall term to-day. In a report of Degree of Honor worl
 published in the Woonsocket Reporter Ida D. Whitman, G. c. of H. of tn grand lodge saws: