The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-29
VALLINGFORD HAPPENINGS
BOROUGH STREETS AGAIN LEFT,IN
 DARKNESS.

bO1fOUGH SIREEIS AGAIN LEFEIN
 DARKNESS.
 fF4N5 Caused by Break in tho Connecttag Rod of the Engine-Barn Owned by Pat rick Bridget Buxns Down.
 The borough streets were again in darkness Saturday night, and bid fair to continue so for two or three nights more unless the gas lamps are again utilized. The cause of the trouble was the breaking of the connecting rod on the engine just after 1t was started up late in the afternoon. The break is such that a new rod and connection are nec- essary, which will have to come from Pittsburg, where the engine was built. and will require at least two days, and perhaps more, before the damage can be repaired. The second engine, which arrived here Saturday, will be placed in position as soon as possible, but will require two or three days to get 1t in good working condition In the mean time the streets will be in darkness un- less the gas is again lighted up. While no one wishes to return to the old meth cd of lighting the streets, yet in an emergency like the present it Is better than groping about in darkness. The warden only last week caused the gas globes to be removed from the posts around the streets and had them stored ir tho ', cQfn knontvp If seems to be the general opinion that his action was little nasty and would have been wiser to have deferred thA removal of the same until the~electrlo light plant was more solidly located and in better working order. The plant is not as yet completed and too much should not be expected of 1t. Some or the merchants have already taken out their gas fixtures and will have to de- pend on kerosene lamps for illumina- ton.
 The second fire Friday night, which was reported as having been house occupied by Isaac Freeman on North Colony street, proved to have been 2 barn owned by Patrick Bridgett in that vicinity but west of the railroad track. Two. -year-old heifers were burned to death, together with buggy. farm ing utensils and some grain. There was an insurance of $150 on the barn, $100 on hay and grain and $50 on vehi- cles, in the agency of H. l.. Davis of Wallingford.
 The loss on the fire at the Holy Trim ity parocilial residence Friday evening is estimated at nearly $5,000. The in- surance was in the agency of James c. Roach. The lack of fire alarm system was felt as several attempts were made to telephone to the various factories to sound the fire alarm with the gongs, but no answer could be got and it was nearly an hour after the fire was dis- covered before any general alarm was sounded. The following programme has been arranged for the musical and literary entertainment to be given by the La diee' Aid society at the M. D. church to- morrow evening:
 PARTI.
 Piano eolo-Mazurka ......... Goddard
 Miss Harriet Bristol. Bass solo .......................
 George J. Peers. Duett-My Golden Chain ............ Mrs. Henry Lobb and Miss Eva Lobb. Reading-The Day of Judgment.....
 Elizabeth Steuart Phelps
 Miss Alice A. Baldwin. Violin solo-Because (from JocelyD ................... .....'... 0oudtu
 Miss Grace Bristol. a. Sapphic Ode ................ Brahms b. The Night Has Thousand Eyes
 A. R. Parsons
 Miss Helen M. Kennard. Reading-How Girls Fish ....Anon
 Miss Baldwin. Hear Ye, Israel (oratorio Elijah)..... .... Mendelssohn
 (violin obligato)
 Mise Eleanor Dryhurst, a. Prelude (Suite ID......J. & Bach b. Spinning Song ..S......F. Liszt
 Miss Jennie M. Peers. A Word at Twilight. De koven
 Mrs. Henry Lobb, jr. Trio. two violins and piano-Pleyel.. Miss Mabel Hall, Miss Bristol and Miss
 Grace Bristol. a. Entreaty ...........a..........
 Miss Dryhurst Reading-The Race for Le Rue Stakes
 Hood
 Miss Baldwin. Israefel .....................O ..OlVer hlnS
 Miss Kennard. Duett-What Have I to Do With
 Thee? (oratorio Elijah) .........
 Mendelssohn
 Miss Dryhurst and MT. Peers. Reserved seats for Way Down East'' go on sale at Pixleys this morning. Prices 50 cents, 75 cents and $1; general admission 35 cents.
 Wallace Hose company will have an entertainment and dance in Temperance hall Saturday evening. The Macdonald Troubadours eighteen members, will be the leading attraction.
 FIRE AT WEST HAVEN. 0arnanfpr ShOY1