The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-03-07
Local Weather Report.
New Haven, March 8, 1901.
Brief Mention.
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High water at noon.

High water at noon.
The Washington Birthday celebration
general committee will meet in room
10 City hail. Friday at p. M, March
The total of the fund for the aid OF
the fremen's families which was $l,6ot
Tuesday night was increased yesterday
by cash subscription Of SIS.
The Yale Courant medal has been
awarded to Charles Mills DeForest OF
this city, The story which practically
won him the medal is entitled 'Voice
of the Dead"
Miss Elsie r. Trowbridge, daughter
of Rutherford Trowbridge, who has
been i'll at her home here with the
measles, has recovered, and returns to
school in Pennington on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs Anderson of Guilford
are both very i'll with grip and pneumo-
mia at the home of their son-in-law,
Lawrence Raymond in Montville. DR.,
Manwaring Of Norwich is attending
them.
On Wednesday evening, March IS, G.
H. Langzettel of the Yale Art school,
will lecture under the auspices of the
Camera club His subject will be
"Some Ideas of Composition Applied
to Photography"
Professor Atwater of Wesleyan uni
yersity is conducting another expert
ment in the caIorimeter on the labor
NJ
ment began February 25 and will close
Thursday morning newt. The man in
the box is J. G. Ware '03
The fourth annual gymnastic contest
between Yale and Princeton will be
held at the Yale gymnasium tomorrow
evening and it promises to be one of
the most interest ting exhibitions ever
held in New Haven. There will be also
a wrestling contest between two Of
Yale's best wrestlers. The Yale Glee
and Banjo clubs will furnish the mu-
sic.
The rehearsals for 1.-THE Fair Maid of
the West" to be given April "a, by the
Yale Dramatic club. have been COM
menced under the direction of Frank
Lee Short of New York The English
department at Harvard has loaned their
Elizabethan scenery to the Yale asso-
citation for use in their production,
through the courtesy of Professor Bar
rett Wendell
Postmaster Howarth went down to
West Haven yesterday afternoon to
give his assistance in the further or
ganization Of the new letter carrier ser
vice. Mr.. Howarth says that there is
no authentic street number system;
the difficulty is great at present in de- |
livering mail matter among 1000 in
habitants especially as most of 1t is |
simply marked "West Haven"
DR.. and Mrs. Lawton gave very en- |
joyable musicale Tuesday evening at |
their residence on University place. |
About fifty guests were present. Mrs.
May Loveridge- Robbins, soprano; Miss
Louise Banker, alto; w. E. Morgan,
baritone; c. w. Worcester, basso, and
DIR. Lawton, tenor, and Frederick
Adams, tenor. were the singers of the
evening, Mrs. w. A. Adams accom-
panying.
The condition of Leopold Besser, of
st. John street, a former clothing mer-
chant on State street, was yesterday re-
ported to be critical. Mr.. Besser had
one of his feet frostbitten recently after
an operation had been performed for
the removal Of corns, and the amputa-
ton of the toes became necessary.
Blood poisoning has since developed.
Drs. Park and Fleischner are doing
everything possible to check the prog
ress of the disease.
Weather Observer Tarr predicts
slightly warmer weather for to-day.
The cold snap at present is rather un-
usual for March and more applicable to
February. The freezing weather report
ed in the south was the subject of con-
siderable comment yesterday among
New Haveners. who have friends and 4.
interests in Florida. Freezing
temperature was reported yesterday as
far south as Jacksonville.
In the town clerks office yesterday 1
was recorded deed of Mary Werns-
man TO the New Haven Electric Cab 4
company of narrow strip Of land q
Few inches in with on Meadow street,
over which the two parties recently
had litigation in the superior court
which ended in a victory for Mrs
Wernsman. The price paid was some
hing like $500. Mrs Wernsman's YER
1ict IN the court was for 5000 damages
and was given by a jury.
NGOPODIUM.