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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-15
CLASSES IN COOKING

ISOLATION Building.
Mrs. Andreae Of the New York Cook
ing school, who has been secured by the
Y. w. C. A. to take charge of the do
nestle science department, will open her
first class In cooking this evening at
1870. Other classes in this branch are
now forming. Day instruction will be
given if desired. Early application
should be made.
A fourth class In dressmaking is also
forming.
There is still opportunity to join
classes in elocution, vocal and instru-
mental music, English and French.
A new class in physical culture will
be opened next Wednesday evening.
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Polt,s Wonderland Tne,ter.

A plentitude of high class variety is
ready to open the week at Polls this
afternoon, headed by Mr.. and Mrs.
Mark Murphy in 1.-THE Seventh Son.
This sketch is by Con Murphy, IT,, and
tells the adventures Of a quick-witted
Irish expressman, who suddenly falls
into luck by an acquisition of second
sight. There are many specialties in
this sketch, The Seven Reed Birds, the
best family act in the country, will
play Dave Reed, jr. S, musical comedy,
THE Morning After the Ball." For
bright popular music specialties and
dancing, as well as a funny story, this
is not excelled to-day in vaude.
vile. In the olio are Wolf and Milton,
novelty acrobats; Tentley and Simonds,
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GIVEN LAUDANUM BY MISTAKE.
Two Year-Old Childs Mother Thought
it Was Medicine.

Two Year-Old Childs Mother Thought
1t Was Medicine.
Chester Phelps, the two year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John M. Phelps of
1872 Bradley street, was taken to Grace
hospital yesterday morning very crit
ically ill as the result of dose OF lau-
danum administered by mistake by his
mother, The baby has not been well
lately and has been under a physicians
care. The physician left some medi-
cine which was to be administered at
intervals and yesterday morning early
Mrs. Phelps arose to give the child his
medicine. She picked up bottle which
she supposed contained the medicine,
and pouring out the dose gave it to the
baby.
Only few moments later, almost
after administering the
potion, she discovered Ter mistake that
she had given laudanun instead of the
right medicine. She hurriedly informed
her husband of what had occurred and
he hastily dressed and wrapping UP the
baby started with rim FOR Grace hos
p!tal.
At the hospital it was thought at first
that the child could not recover and
for several hours his life was despaired
Of Every means possible for resuscita-
ton was, however, resorted to and fin
ally later in the day the baby began
to get better Last night it was
thought at the hospital that he would
recover.
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MILFORD.

October 14.-Dwight Plat is i'll with
typhoid fever
Charles Smith will soon move into
Mrs. Sherman Smiths house on River
street.
The funeral OF Miss Mary S. Baldwin
was held from her late residence on
High street on Saturday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock. Burial was in the Mil
ford cemetery Sunday afternoon. Rev.
Charles r. Upson OBLIGATED.
The Milford Water company is laying
pipes on Prospect street.
The Republican marching club will
march along the principal streets this
evening. The club makes a very nice
showing.
Bridgeport Traction company has
bought 275 acres of land of Captain g.
]. Wakelee in Oronoque to be converted
into a park. Officials say work will be
begun shortly, the park to be opened
next summer.
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WALLINGFORD HAPPENINGS
THE TOWNS GOOD INCREASE IN
PoPUL1TIoN IN TEN YEARS.

| Voters to be Made in the Town HILL and
In yaIesyilIe Grand Republican Rally
Next Wednesday Evening In the Town
! Hall.
| According to the returns from the
census bureau the population OF Wall
ingford is 1901. The figures in 1890
We're 6,694 which shows an increase in
1 ten years of 2,417. The population Of
the borough is 6737, which shows an
increase of 2,5O7. The town outside the
| borough has 1884 and shows loss Of
ninety since 1890. The gain in town is
nearly 81 per cent, more than twice as
much as Meriden
The selectmen and town clerk will
meet at the selectmen's office in the
town hall on Friday, October 10, and
Friday, October 26, to make voters.
They will also meet at the town hall
in Yalesvil1e to make voters on Wed
nesday, October "a. They will also
meet to make voters on Monday, No
vember 5, for those whose qualification
mature after October rs.
The republican rooms in the Beach
house will be opened up to-day.
The republicans will have a rally In
town hall Wednesday evening, with
Hon. Frank Brandegee of New London
and w. A. King of YVindham.
Frederick G. Ewing has sold to Roll
lin Fl. Talbot 125 acres of land in East
Wallingford.
Two Cuban boys are attending the
Choate school for boys. Neither can
speak English.
Quite delegation in bus and cay
riages went down to the Hamden fair
Saturday evening.
Edward Wilton of the Twelfth n. s.
regulars, stationed at Fort Schuyler, is
visiting friends In town
The one weeks fair of Charter Oak
circle, c. of f., will open in town hall
this evening. The Worlds Glass blow
ers and high class vaudeville stars
will open the attraction every evening.
The local democrats expect to open
up the campaign here this week.
The Hubbard hose company will have
an entertainment In the armory next
week Saturday evening.
Miss Lena Williams, who has been
the guest of Mrs. B. F. Williams, has
returned to her home in Sandisfield,
Mass.
To day is the last chance to hand in
applications to be made voters. The
registrars will be In session at the Sc
selectmen's office from a. m. to D. m.
D. l.. Barber and II. d. Kendrick will
attend the session of the X of 2. grand
lodge in Bridgeport tomorrow.
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A MEETING OF scANDINAvIANs
In the Interests of the Constitutional
Reform Movement

In the Interests of the Constitutional
Reform Movement
A meeting of prominent Scandinavia
ans from various parts of the state was
held in the Central building yesterday
afternoon to start movement towards
the organization of a Scandinavian con-
stitutional reform association to work
for constitutional reform in the state
a matter in which the Scandinavian
voters of the state are much interested
George X. Rose was elected organizer
to start league of Scandinavian clubs
throughout the state in the interests Of
the movement. Theodore Larson was
elected president of the organization
formed and C. T. Apelquist of this city
secretary.
Another meeting Of the committee will
be held In this city October 20 and on
Thursday, october 25 general meet
ing of delegates from all the Scaulna-
Wan organizations in the state inter
ested in the movement will be called to
be held In Arion hall, committee of
six was appointed yesterday to meet the
delegates who will attend that meeting,
at which 1t is intended to have an adj
dress by an English-speaking exponent
of constitutional reform.
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Hoyt's genius, as 1t sparkles and daz-
zles in "a Milk White Flag" is perren-
NAL. This cleverly constructed crazy
patch of farclcal satire, burlesque
comic opera and terpsichore meets
with continued favor as the seasons go
by. 1t has been remodelled, and the
costuming handsomely renewed and as
for theatrical display and spectacular
effects, it is well known that "a Milk
White Flag" outranks all the other
Hoyt plays Mdny of the old favorites
are included in the cast, and the new
faces come to us well recommended.
Special attention is paid to the musical
programme and the Ransome Guards
military band and orchestra is a feat
ure of the production. Little Chip, we'll
known on both continents as an ex
tremely lively and clever eccentric conn.,
edian, has been engaged for 1.-THE Pri-
vate.' John s. Marble as 1.-THE Under
taker" will be remembered as appear
ing with the original company. The
balance Of the cast is the best ever seen
in the play "a Milk White Flag"
comes to the Grand Opera house on
Tuesday and Wednesday nights, Octo-
Der IS, II, with matinee Wednesday.
Seats now on sale Regular prices.
William Gillette's Secret Service"
which is to be presented at the Grand
Opera house Thursday. Friday, Satur-
day nights, October IS, 10, 20, with
matinee Saturday with all the original
scenery and effects, is a play that finds
its incidents In the late civil war in this
country. 1t is filled with military feat
ures and is Respondent with soldiers In
uniform and bristling bayonets but
these merely furnish background for
a beautiful story Of a woman's heart
and q noble mans love. The play Is a
succession of situations that rivet the
heart and stir the emotions Seats now
on sale. Regular prices
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BOARD OF HEALTH MEETS.

DR.. futile as Examiner Succeeds Dr.
Mailhouse on State Board.
Saturday afternoon the state board
of health held its quarterly meeting in
this city at the home of the secretary,
Dr. c. A. Lindsey From all parts of
the state there was good attendance
The resigna tion of DR. Max Mailhouse
of this city as Connecticut Medical So
ciety examiner was accepted DIR. c.
A. futile of New Haven was appointed
to fill the vecency. Routine work CON
sisting of sanitation reports occupied
the meeting.
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PRIZE ESSAY SUBJECTS.

The Ten Eyck Essay subjects for the
Junior exhibition at Yale were an
nounced Saturday morning. The jun
Tor exhibition is one of the Oldest and
most sought after honors at the univer-
eity. The subjects are: Lanier, The
Holy Grail, Christian Missions in China,
The Covanters Henry Howard, Earl of
Surrey, Daniel and the Captivity, The
American Navy In the War of 1872,
An English Public School, Rugby,
Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary, The
French Republic In 1900, The First CRU
sade, Practical Politics and the Ma
chine, Quebec, Dr. Johnson, the Rom
any, The Development of the North
west
The Townsend-DeForest prize essay
subjects were also announced Satur-
day The winner in addition to the
small premium, receives the DeForest
gold medal at commencement. The
subjects are: The Celtic In Poetry; the
King over the Water; Roumania; The
Revival of Romance; An American
City, Chicago; Mark Twain; The Vati-
can and the Quirinal; Alcestis; Bede,
the Master Singers; The Republic of
Mexico; Canterbury; Louisiana Before
1885, Leonardo Da'Vinci, and Aristo-
planes.
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SURpRISE PARTY

A very enjoyable surprise party was
rendered Miss Bertha Scibbe at her res
idence, No. 112 Nicoll street, last Fri
day evening. The evening was spent
in dancing, singing and games, after
which a bountiful supper was served
Those present We're Miss Bertha Scibbe,
Miss Rose Rempfer, Miss Anna Wolf,
Miss Clara Sucher, Miss Louise Meyer,
Miss Title Kuehl, Robert Kramer, Jesse
Skinner, Benjamin Stackman, Arthur
Stockman, Benjamin Gillen, Charles
Ahlgren, Stephen Noonan, Thomas Can
ty, Harold Hubbell, John Rempfer, Gus
tave Scibbe, Arthur Crowley and
Charles Shugrue.
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WILL CONSIDER Y. MIC. A. BIDS
Meeting of the Building and Citizens
Committee This Morning

Meeting of the Building and Citizens
Committee This Morning.
This morning at 1920 o'clock the
building committee Of the Y M. G. A.
will meet the citizens committee COM
posed of E. Hayes Trowbridge, T. Att
water Barnes ard Henry F. English, for
the purpose of deciding on the bids for
the building of the new Y. M. c. A.
building. 1t is very probable that
the bids for the foundation will
be awarded within the next
two or three days so that work
on the new building may begin at
once. The bids in all the lines of work
will be considered, but will probably
not be announced until later.
The building committee consists Of
Pierce N Welch, Samuel II. Read, Jo-
seph Porter, Edward S. Swift, John T.
Manson, William r. Fields, Frank K.
Sanders, Professor Henry w. Farnam
and William G. Lotze.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-15

Irish comedians: the Folly Trio, sing
ing and novelty act; Miles and Ray
mond, eccentriques; Major sisters, pref
ty soubrettes; McRae and Wyatt, in
coon sketch, and the Three Celestas, on
flying rings. Prices, matinees 10 cents
and 20 CENTS evenings 10 cents, 20 cents
and 30 cents; ladies matinees 10
cents. G.
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DEATH OF JUDGE DAVID S. SAN
FORD'S WIDOW

New Milford, Oct. 13.-Mrs. David s.
Sanford, widow of the late Judge San
ford of the superior court, died at her
home here about midnight last night,
aged ninety-two years. The cause of
Mrs. Sanford's death was general de-
bility incidental to old age. Sheis sur
vived by two daughters and a STEP
son, H. S. Sanford a lawyer of this
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ARRESTED BY POLICEMAN HEALY
A Saloonkeeper Charged With Viola
ton of the Sunday Law

ton Of the Sunday Law.
Patrolman Healy of the Grand ave-
nue. precinct yesterday afternoon ar
rested Dennis Coady, a saloonkeeper at
No FOG East street, on the charge Of
violation of the Sunday liquor law.
Healy was in uniform, but notwith-
standing this fact and the fact that, as
alleged a vigilant lookout for the police
was kept, he managed to get to the
rear of the saloon without being seen.
There he saw two men drinking at the
rear door, and, entering the door, he
found, just inside, a tub of ice on which
We're a number Of bottles of beer and
spirltuous liquors. Coady was arrested
and released under 5000 bonds furnished
by Patrick Hogan, a saloonkeeper on
Hamilton street
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ALARM OF FIRE SATURDAY

Saturday night about 8 o'clock a still
alarm was sent to engine company No.
s, a fire having been discovered in the
cellar of the house of John Franklin, "a
Nash street. The damage is estimated
at $25, the fire being quickly extingufsh-
ed The blaze originated in a pile of
rubbish.
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AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE AN
NJJAIL

1t was announced Saturday that the
general council of the American Social
Science associa ton has decided that the
next annual meeting of the association
will be held at Washington, D. c., be-
ginning April 16, 1901.
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I FOR GALVESTON TO-DAY.
Captain Charles Harris, who resides
at go Olive street, will leave to-day with
his wife to take up their residence in
Galveston, Texas. Captain Harris in
tends to engage in the plumbing bust
ness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-22

bury we started work one morning at
one o'clock because the nights were
good and the days bad Persistence,
patience, and pluck are embodied in
Marconi.
HIS NEXT MOVE.
AT present Marconi is busy with plans
for the extension of his work along the
line of greater distances than before at
tempted and with contracts for the use
of the system at sea, as well as on land,
where wire systems are not in use. One
of his men is at Berkum, Germany,
completing the esta blishment of the in
stallations for a German steamship
company, and making stations at a
lighthouse and lightship there An
other assistant is locating stations on
six of the Hawaiian Islands, and instru-
ments for the complete outfit are now
on their way there
The use of the system in South Africa
has been chiefly confined to signalling
between the English ships along the
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anges, lines, guavas and other fruit.
The island is the nesting place of thou
sands of turtles and the waters around
it TEEN with fine fish. The island IS
of coral formation, comprising a
mountain peak.
West of these hills and slipping gently
toward the low, sandy beach that en-
circles the whole western, southwestern
and southern sides of the island are
thousands of acres of fine, fertile lands
with good grass for cattle.
From West Point, the extreme wes-
tern extremity, there extends for eight
miles along the southern edge a fine
beach of white sand. This beach is
the nesting place of thousands of green
turtles.
Outside the coral reef which rims this
southern shore is good depth of water
for anchorage, while just north of West
Point is a beautiful little bay, called
THE Sandineer Anchorage" with from
five to twenty-five tathoms of water.
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A HOSPITAL FOR SICK TORPEDO BOATS,
They Preparing Remarkable Brooklyn Navy
Restore Them TO Service.

A home for unemployed torpedo
boats is about to be added to the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. 1t will afford
accommodation for seventeen of these
naval midgets and their larger sisters,
the torpedo boat destroyers-
Then, there will be a casual ward for
sick and wounded torpedo boats, an
deliberately equipped operating-room, a
large staff of skilled torpedo-boat sur
geons and physicians and their assist.
ants, to say nothing of nurses, and
convalescent torpedo boats and de-
stroyers will find in Uncle Sans new
institution all the privileges of a club
combined with the advantages of a
first-clasS sanitarium.
1t is not solely with a view to pro-
viding rest and recreation for over
worked craft that the Navy Depart
rnent is establishing the home-or to-
pedo-b boat round house, as it has been
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try a thing faithfully once and it does
not work, l can dismiss that possibility.
AFTER have tried a great many things
tnat ran l get the thing that succeeds,
and don't have to repeat experiments
in future trials''
IN the evening Marconi reviews the
work ne has done during the day, and
pians the experiments for the next. A
days work is a valuable thing to him,
because he has the feeling that to-mor-
row may bring some great development
No kind of weather binders him. He
VIII only stop work in the rain when
1t is severe enough to 3'short circuit
his batteries or make a shock from the
key possible. On stormy days, when
work outside is impossible, indoor ex-
periments are carried on from one room
to another The spirit of the work is
dominant, and it is always intelligent
work
lie routs us out at night sometimes"
said one of his assistants. '.At Sails
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coasts and stations on land, though
Lord Roberts has made good use of it
on land in some instances. During tina
recent fear of a Boer plot to blow up
the English ships, the wireless system
showed its advantage
The company recently organized in
France. will place the Marconi system
in use along the French coast and on
the French naval feet. In addition to
all these operations, the installation OF
the system on forty English warships
should keep Marconi busy for some
time.
Certainly the wireless telegraph has
ceased to be a scientific toy: it bids
fair to be one of the most important
elements of the future worlds work.
But Marconi takes it all modestly.
Il don't think 1 have done very much
yet" he remarks, but am young, and
perhaps may yet do something worth
WHILE
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UNCLE SAM HAS a FINE MEN ISLAND.

Mona was the home of buccaneers for
two hundred years. In the big cave in
the hillside west of the lighthouse they
hid their treasures.
The officials of the General Land Of
flee in Washington say that while our
land laws have not been extended by
statute to the West Indian islands, they
undoubtedly will be, and American
methods of demonstrating, presumption
and entry will obtain there. To this
extent the lands are free to any one
applying. Under the Homestead act,
heads of families may enter one hun
dred and sixty acres of public land set
aside for that purpose.
Mona, while one of the most interest
ing of the small islands taken from
Spain, is not the largest. Viceques, or
Crab Island, east of Porto Rico, about
five miles from the mainland, is TWEEN
ty miles long and about fifty square
miles in area. 1t is not well suited for
cultivation. but affords good pasture.
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A tropical island Of nearly ten thou
sand acres. forty-two miles due east OF
Porto Rico. is waiting for some enter
prising homesteader to stake out
claim. This island belongs to the
United States. but no one lives on it
except a lighthouse keeper.
1t is known on the map as Mona
Island. 1t has luxuriant vegetation, is
well watered and drained Every va
riety of tropical fruit will grow there
and it possesses every natural advan-
tage. 1t is in the middle of Mona Pas
sage.
Mona Island became the property of
the United States by the second clause
IN the treaty which cedes the island
of Porto Rico and other islands now
under Spanish sovereignty in the West
Indies
On this fertile soil can be grown ev-
cry kind of tropical crop-bananas, or
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ship. Anc then there are so many OF
them. and they run about so fast shows
ing off their speed and getting their
works out of order. that it is as much
as a full-sized man-o'-war can do to
get beggarly coat of paint these days
without waiting her turn like a patient
at a free dispensary.
What costs money at a dry-dock is
pumping out the water after the vessel
is in and the gates are shut An easy
sum in arithmetic will convince any
body that the torpid-heat Cushing, dis
placing only los tons. cempels the Cow
eminent to pump 1885 tons of water
more than the battle-ship Massachu-
setts. displacing II, 600 tons.
The round house will save all that
everybody will be pleased, and it is e1-
pected that more torpedo-boat hospitals
will be established on the Pacific coast
and elsewhere.
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called One of the leading ideas of
the innovation is that there shall al
ways be on hand ready to sally forth
at any moment a feet of seventeen
strong and healthy torpedo boats,
sound in wind and limb, shining inside
and out, with never a speck of rust or
a trace of a barnacle.
And accordingsto the system in view,
such an exodus will be Immediately
followed by the filling of the vacant
berths with other torpedo boats in need
of attention.
One important reform that the tor
pedo boat hospital will bring about is
that battle-ships and cruisers will at
last have something more than a ghost
of a show of being dry-docked. A
landlubber would never believe it, but
a 100-ton torpedo boat gives twice as
much trouble and costs much more
money to dock than 10.000-ton battle
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Lightning is believed to be visible ak
a distance of $50 miles. Opinions diff
fer as to how far away thunder can be
heard. A French astronomer who has
made observations declares that thun-
der cannot be heard at a greater dis
tance than ten miles. An English me-
has counted up to 100 seconds
between the flash and the thunder,
which would give a distance of twenty
seven miles from the place where the
occurred.
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NAPOLEON AS A ooUNTERFElTER

Soon after Savary, the Minister of Po-
lice, descended upon his subordinate
with a sharp reprimand. He explained
that the notes were being printed by
the order of Napoleon himself, who de-
signed them for use in the Russian
campaign. Napoleon had no intention
of wasting good money in buying sup
plies in an enemy's country.