The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-23
or LOOAL INTEREST.


served in all the Jewish synagogues of
the city next Friday. In the Orange
street synagogue class of eighteen
children will be confirmed on that day.
Mrs. e. F. Peckham, wife of Edwin
f. Peckham Of Bowling hall, is very i'll
at 100 York street after a serious oper-
alton on Tuesday by DR.. Grove, assist
ed by Dr. Phelps, She is as comforta-
BILE as can be expected.
/ The town of Hamden will shortly
hold a special meeting for the purpose
of acting upon the proposition which
has been made to the selectmen by the
New Haven Water company. The wa
| ter company wishes to secure control
of the land upon which the Whitney
Vile and AugurVille schoolhouses stand.
President Eli Whitney of the water
company has offered to pay the town
of Hamden the sum of $4,000 and take
the sites now occupied by the school
buildings and give the town a plot or
ground at the junction of the roads at
! the ice houses in Whitneyville. The
company does not want either of the
schoolhouses, as they are too close to
the water. The site offered is a very
| favorable one for the schoolhouses.
The Y. M. G. A., Church army and
congregation Of Trinity church held
| joint service in Church Army hall yes
terday afternoon at o'clock. AT 3:45
! the congregation adjourned to Y. M. c.
| A. hall, 7t3 Chapel street, at which
! meeting Professor Nichols and Mrs.
| Lyon took part. AT 1880 p. m DIR. Doug
las met the Y. M. c. A. and Church
army in Trinity church, when Rev. Mr..
Bispham preached. At S:45 o'clock
there was another meeting in Church
Army hall.
Agent Preston of the Organized
Charities will go to New York to-day
to attend the national conference or
Charities and Correction, which is In
session in that city.
The indications are that the boats to
be manned by the Connecticut Naval
Militia will be ready for them by the
end of this week,
| Captain Mcclure, who took an expe-
dition of gold hunters out of this port
on the schooner Negus last fall, has
organized another party of It's persons
twenty five of whom are women. The
bark Hayden Brown of New York, 49,
tons register, has been purchased and
will sail from Seattle to St. Michae
with Captain McLure's party. The YES
sci will afterward proceed to Kuntzy-
bee sound, in the Arctic ocean, to loa6
coal for st. Michael.
Corporal Merle, now of Battery B
Connecticut Heavy artillery, formerly
in charge of Malley- Neely's clock de.
partment, was in the big store Satur-
day night bidding his many friends
good bye He said that orders were
out for the battery to break camp a
Mantle on Wednesday and start south
ward to Mobile.
The testimony in the Yale tax appea
case has been completed before the
committee appointed to hear the case
and the committee will now prepare {
finding of facts to be submitted to the
court for approval.
The Branford Driving park was solC
at public auction Friday by P. d
Beach, who was appointed a commit
tee by the court of common pleas, ant
was purchased by w. H. Hosley O.
East Haven for $780, The debts, in
Guiding mortgage and bills, amounted
to $1,574.74.
Mayor Farnsworth has caused a cal
to be made for q special meeting O.
the board of ciunclmen to be held to
morrow (Tuesday) evening. The objec
of the meeting is to consider the repor
of the committee on streets recon-
mending that the assessments for tn
permanently paved streets be paid o.
August and November /.
Samuel e. Dibble, the well know
plumber at No. 639 Grand avenue, ha
recently been honored by the Nationa
Association of Master Plumbers by be
ing made the chairman of the nationa
legislative committee with power to ap
point his entire committee, He has ap
pointed the following gentlemen to &C
in that capacity Andrew j. Clerkin 0
this city, James Ahern of Hartford, j
B. Weiant of New Britain and G. Z
Scofield Of Bridgeport.
At 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon
when the railroad men raised a fla
over the freight office, about one hun
bred employees of the railroad wer
present, and patriotic speeches wer
made by Fire Commissioner William T
Morgan, the freight agent, and Assist
ant Freight Agent Hamilton. When tn
| flag went UP all the men cheered an
the tugs footed and all the engines bleN
their whistles. Belle dock hasn't see
such day in years.
The Children of Mary of st. Law
rences parish of West Haven will Civ
this year also one of those May festi
walls that have proved so enjoyable.