The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-11
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
Y. 1T. d ". R. R. WIRING THE NEW
 CHAPEE STREET BRIDGE.

CHA1E TIL oIHEEI BhI dE.
 Annual Sale of the Ladies, Aid Society
 Wednesday Evcning-Items About
 Fair Haven Shipping-A Baseball
 Team for Strong school-Other Notes.
 The Fair Haven and Westville Rail-
 road company is engaged in wiring the
 new East Chapel street bridge and 1t
 is hoped the work will have progressed
 so that cars can run across the struc-
 ture tomorrow The bridge has not
 been turned over to the city by the
 Berlin Iron Bridge company and conse-
 Quently teams are no. allowed to cross as yet. The bridge waa begun about
 year and half ago, and was to have been completed in April last. The penalty for non-fulfillment of the con- tract is $40 per day, but it is not be- lieved it will be insisted on, as it is un- derstood the New York contractors for the entire work will not make much profit, having taken the contract at a low sum He was about 5000 under the price of the next bidder. The road way is paved with brick, but the asphalt for the sidewalk will not be laid until spring.
 The annual Christmas sale of the. Ladies Aid society will be held in the chapel of the Grand avenue Baptist church Wednesday evening. The ad- mission is free. Fancy and useful ar ticles, appropriate for the holidays, cake, cream, and home made candy, will be on sale. During the evening a short programme of entertainment will be given. The ladies who have promised articles for the sale and any others who wish to aid are requested to send them to the chapel early on the afternoon of the sale.
 The funeral of Ellen Barrett, the young girl who committed suicide at her home, No. 1 Murray Place, was at- tended Saturday afternoon. The inter- nent was in Evergreen cemetery.
 The schooner Van Name & King, one of the local three-masters, which put into Savannah, Ga, in distress, sailed Thursday for New York She Is from Brunswick, Ga, with railroad ties, and was originally bound for Philadelphia, but Captain Brown, when the schooner put into Savannah took the option of to New York.
 The steam barge Rancosca, which ran here with several cargoes last year, put into Stonington Saturday with 200 tons of gypsum, bound to Providence. | The captain intended to keep on to his destination without delay, but the fierce wind which prevailed detained | the steamer.
 The Farther Lights society of the Grand avenue Baptist church will meet | this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the home | of Miss Hanselpacker, PIT Lloyd street.
 The schooner Hattie M. Mayo, Cap l tain Murphy, from Providence for this port, was beached on Penguin's shoal, | 5tOnington harbor, to prevent sinking | Saturday afternoon. Friday night the i vessel ran on the rocks at Napatree Point and began leaking at the rate of | 1000 strokes per hour. The cargo was ,f old iron rails and horseshoes for the Fair Haven Rolling mill The vessel will probably be a total loss, but the ,argo will be saved. The schooner is a small craft and was built at Eden, Me, 'orty years ago and is owned in Calais, Maine.
 %I IGib HlS nave uIOpUGu uItlG, put he Fair Haven coasters are still earn ng good dividends. The rate to Boston las been as high as $2.25 per ton, but he schooner Grace Seymour just char cred gets only $1.35 from Philadelphia o New Bedford
 The w. c. T. U. will hold a parlor meeting tomorrow afternoon at the lome of Mrs. C. W. Kandham, 55 Pine treet
 Thestrong grammar schol is arrang- ng to have baseball team in the field lext season. The boys are quite pleas q over the success of their first sea- on's venture in football, although they lid not get the prize in the city school eague.
 The schooner Sarah M Carpenter has discharged 150 tons of sea sand for William A. Warner & Bro
 Yesterday afternoon the members of It. Ignatius T. A. and B. society met or the first time in their new quarters t 290 Grand avenue. The new rooms re convenient and have been attrac- lvely fitted up. A new frame barn has been built on { last Pearl street for Miss Julia Smith ( Aicii LoWe IS OuiIulIlS TOT nlmSeIf n Peck street two family house. The uilding is now ready to lath Tomorrow the ladies of the Monto- rese Baptist church will give a fair. 6 ne sale to begin at o'clock, and at 5 | l clock supper will be served. In the t vening there will be an entertainment. , The Saltonstall lodge, N. E. o. P. of T last Haven, will initiate several candi- i ates on Thursday evening.