The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-26
PERSONAL JOTTfNGS,

General Henry s. Peck, of this city, who is inspector general on the staff of
 the national commander of the Grand Army. General Leo Fassieur has been
 selected as a representative from Con-
 necticut to take part in the inaugural
 parade in Washington, D. C., March 4.
 While in this city Wednesday he was
 the guest of Assistant Adjutant General
 John H. Thacher of the Connecticut
 Grand Army.
 Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, jr., spoke
 last evening before the Essex County
 Yale Alumni association at it's annual dinner at Orange, N. J., taking for his subject "Yale University" Colonel N,
 G. Osborn will also be one of the speak CTS responding to the toast "The New Era
 Mrs Tracy Peck of 124 High street delivered the second of a series of in terestng and instructive talks about Europe Thursday evening before an au- dience which comfortably filled Board- man hall Y W. c. A. on Chapel street. Her subject was "Venice, the Bride of the Sea-" The talk was especially in teresting as Mrs. Peck lived for some time in Italy, and was fully conversant with her subject. The talk was supple mented with photographs and souvenirs of Venice. Those who heard it greatly enjoyed 1t.
 Captain S. E. Thrasher of the Law and Order league is back from England after an absence of three months. Cap tain Thrasher went abroad in the inter ests of his patent time indicating de vice. Captain Thrasher said yesterday that he had interested English capital ists in his patent rights. He expects to make another trip abroad in May.
 News has been received in this city of the serious illness of Edward Garrison, the trainer at Sheepshead Bay, who was one of the greatest jockeys in the country until he began to take on weight. He was attacked with pneu- monia several days ago and his condi- tion is reported critical. Snapper Gar rison was a New Haven boy, and his numerous friends here will hope for his speedy recovery
 Albert H. Barclay. the we'll known newspaper man, has entered the law offices of Case & Ely. MT. Barclay is a graduate of the class of '91 Yalu academic and of the Yale law school in '95. He was one of half a dozen out of about thirty who passed the recent state bar examination in Hartford.
 Mrs. G. H. Pardee of this city is
 
 with her sister. who is ill
 MT. and Mrs. James English of church street gave a dinner party Thursday evening to about twenty friends.
 The friends in this city of Miss liar nony Twlchell of Hartford will be in- terested in the announcement that she 1 has gone to Chicago, where she wifi take up district nursing This field op- ems opportunity for a noble work which has attracted the educated ] class.
 George r. Merwin, the well known 1 mason builder, is i'll with the grip at his home on Eld street.
 Mrs William Arfman of Temple | street opened her home yesterday for 9 l large charity whist, the proceeds from 1 Wn1cn are to De QlsLTlDuteu among the 1 poor.
 Samuel Bernfield who lives at 105 Lafayette street, met with very pain Pul accident yesterday morning on Gen. ter street. The young man had his ! hand caught in a trap door which GOV ITS the elevator shaft while he was working on the elevator, and four fin- gers on his hand were badly lascerated
 Miss Georgiana Strachon of Hartford, | who sung at the Burns concert Thurs lay night, was together with her sis CT guests of MT. and Mrs, George D. Bone of 27 Warren street. They return .d to Hartford yesterday With them vent the Miss Anna and Agnes May Bone, daughters of MT. Bone.
 The death of Hon. Benjamin D. Sill- nan, who eor a number of years had ,een Yale's oldest graduate, gives that distinction to the Hon. Leman w. Cut CT, of Watertown. MT. Cutter was porn in the year 1911, and graduated rom Yale In the class of '29 He is ninety years old, but is remarkably yell preserved and it is thought that he 7ill enjoy the distinction of being Yale's ldest graduate for some time to come.