The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-18

who has been substituting in the Bran-
 ford signal tower will make his home
 in Branford, and has purchased a
 chainless wheel, upon which he will
 cover the distance between Branford
 and East Haven daily.
 Samuel Gurney the medical mission
 ary, who recently nursed a smallpox
 patient in Derby as volunteer, says
 that he is not making an effort to col
 lect from the authorities for his ser | vices in that case. He says that he volunteered his services and not with a
 view of being compensated for 1t.
 W. H. Hamilton, the Chapel street
 ladies' suit and coat dealer, was made
 happy Saturday by the arrival of new
 baby. Many congratulations are ex- tended.
 Yesterdays New York Tribune says. On Sunday next David Bispham, who
 is great social favorite in New York, will give a song recital at Carnegie
 hall, assisted by Randolph von Scarpa, and such large and fashionable at tendance is assured that the experiment
 bids fair to prove a success, and the | Sunday afternoon concert to become a
 regular feature of modish society's Sab-
 bath.
 It was learned that President McKin- 1 ley will not have time to visit this city
 next summer in the ceremonies attend ! ing the laying of the corner store of the
 new Y. M. c. A. building on Temple
 street. It was partly expected by the Y. M. c. A. management that the pres- l ident would came here and the event
 was postponed in order to accommo- 1 date his engagements.
 President Hadley of Yale left for Cal | ifornia Saturday. While in San Fran
 cisco President Hadley will be the guest of Thomas R. Bacon, formerly of this city, Yale graduate of the class of '72. Rev. MT. Bacon is a professor in the University of California at Berkeley, where President Hadley will remain during his stay near San Francisco. On next Saturday President Hadley will
 take part in the main object of his trip to the Pacific slope. He will deliver the
 address of the occasion at the Charter Day celebration of the University of California. He will leave for Los An geles on March21 and will stay at sev- eral places between San Francisco and Los Angeles as the guest of personal friends. At Los Angeles he will attend the annual Yale alumni banquet, which is scheduled to be held on April 2. Pres- ident Hadley will leave the Pacific coast for home on April 3.
 Miss Louise Hutchinson of Branford has arrived home from three weeks stay with relatives in Brooklyn, Conn.,. i and at other points in the northwest part of the state.
 Dr. Henry w. Eliot, brother of Dr. Gustavus Eliot, well known in this city, where he received a portion of his edu- cation Is one of the army surgeons who have just been promoted in the service. Dr. Eliot has been appointed assistant surgeon of volunteers with the rank of captain. Dr. Henry w. Eliot is now in | the Philippines, where he has been for | the last two years. Up to the time of | his promotion he had been acting as | sistant surgeon.
 Among those in the New Haven colo | ny at Rockledge in Florida, stopping al | the Shares hotel are Judge l.. w. | Cleaveland and his mother, and Elizur Sperry of Whaliey avenue. MT. Sperry has been spending two or three months there and will return to his home about April l.
 A fancy dress party was given by | Miss Helen Bone of 27 Warren street, Friday evening, for her little friends. A pleasant time was spent with music and games. A feature of the evening was a cake walk to supper, led by Helen Bone and John Brouder.
 At a meeting of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences last | evening George Grant Mac Curdy, M, A., read a paper, illustrated by lantern slides, entitled "The Earliest Remains of Man" 1t being the second of series read before that body by MT. MacCurdy.
 Hon. N. D. Sperry, member of Con- gress from the Second congressional district, has arrived at his home on Or ange street His wife returned with him. MT. and Mrs. Sperry have been in Washington since the opening of congress in December, with the excep- tion of their return here at the holiday ; vacation. Both are in excellent health
 Miss Harger, assistant librarian at Yale, left on Saturday with Miss Green of University Place, for North Carolina where she will spend several weeks Miss Harger goes south in the recom- of her physicians, as she has been suffering from severe attacks lg of the grip.
 Mrs John T. Cooney, who conducted he Grove house at Savin Rock for a number of years has purchased the cot age at 157 Beach street
 MT. and Mrs. A. l.. Schneider are re- 'eiving the congratulations of their many friends upon the arrival of little stranger. It's a girl and weighs 9A pounds. MT. Schneider Is the we'll K ,nown proprietor of The Elm City Man company. Mrs. Russell Hotchkiss has returned rom Washington, D. C., where she las been visiting since early in Janu- ny. Mrs. Hotchkiss formerly lived in Washington, and has large circle of riends who were delighted with this opportunity of again greeting her. She vas the recipient of much social atten- ion during her visit. Frank Bohan of Campbell avenue, E Vest Haven, who was a member of the Forty first regiment, Go. l. stationed in ,x.. T-r-. J.