The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-20
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
TELEPHONE COMPANY PUTTING UP
NEW WIRES,

Chapel street Drnwbridge to Open for
Traffic ut O'Clock This Afternoon
Funeral of Mr.. Burnham to be Held
This Afternoon.
The local telephone company in East
Haven is putting up new wire and Is to
locate new telephones in the village. The
plan is to nearly double the number of
telephones in the village at present.
There are now about fifteen of these To-
cal telephones. This system is not con-
nected with the New Haven system,
but there are several telephones con-
Meeting with the city. The local sys-
tenn has been in use about year and Is
proving a marked success.
The children at Strong school will be-
gin to-day to bring in their gifts to be
distributed to the poor and needy. Any
Of these gifts may be brought in before
Friday noon. Most of the donations will
go to the Home for the Friendless and
the United Charities.
City Engineer Kelly said yesterday
that the new Chapel street drawbridge
would be open for traffic at o'clock
this afternoon. He said that the bridge
would also be ready for street car traf-
fic, provided the railroad company COM
pletes it's wiring.
Richard g. Davis and Arthur F. Hem
ingway Of Fair Haven and Herbert 9,
Nickerson and Albert A. Page of East
Haven have been elected members OF the
New Haven Congregational club,
1,1cy
in good condition it's ice houses at Con-
ga1nond Lake in preparation for the Ice
harvest. If the present mild weather
continues there will be no need OF the
storage houses this winter.
The funeral of Daniel W. Burnham
will be held this afternoon at o'clock
from his late residence, No. Is Wolcott
street.
1t is said that if dredging for oysters
is prohibited on the Great South Bay
the large oyster planters will have to
go out of business. 1t Is said that they
could not compete with the neighbour
hood oystermen One of the Bay oys-
termen says that with seed at the pres
ent price of sixty to seventy-five cents
and oysters at $1.15 to $1.25 the planter
and shipper would simply have to give
I'D business if he had to take up his
oysters with tongs.
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