The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-12
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
xTE1IS OF INTEREST CONCERNING
 NEW HAVEN pEOPLE

And Other People Known Here-vari-
 ous European Trips and Local Socia
 Events.
 United States Commissioner William
 A. Wright and wife will sail for Flu
 rope July 27 for tour of France anc
 Holland and may extend their journey
 further. At Paris they will meet theil
 daughter Miss Vera, who has beel
 spending two years in the study of mu-
 sic, vocal and instrumental, at some o1
 the best schools there. Miss Vera is 8
 graduate of Hillhouse high school. She
 will return home with her parents ear
 ly in the fall.
 Miss Hattie Shannon, of 123 George
 street, and Miss Ann Demmer, of Lin
 den street, left yesterday for a two
 weeks visit to New York and North |. Beach.
 G. s. Higgins, of West Hartford a graduate of the Yale Medical school in
 the class of 1901, has been appointed hospital steward and house phyhician at the prison. He is highly recommend ed by the faculty. pr. c. c. Purinton, who has held the position during the past year. has opened an office in West Hartford. The custom is to have a member of each graduating class at the medical school hold the position of hos pital steward and house physician for one year.
 Miss Lucy Barker, of New York city, is a guest at the Eckford Davis resi- dence at Mill Plain, Branford. Miss Bankers mother is spending the sum- mer in the west
 Charles Hine, who has just returned from Arkansas. where he has been for the benefit of his health, has leased the Edmondson cottage at Cosey Beach and will spend the remaining summer months there.
 Mrs. Wilbur Dean, of Norfolk, has returned from New Haven, where she visited her daughter Mrs Frank Deck CT, who is patient at the New Haven hospital.
 Mrs. George l.. Beach, of Church street, Branford, has had for her guests this week Frederick Knapp, wife and child, of New York city, and Miss Au- gusta Knapp, of Norwalk, all cousins of Mrs. Beach.
 Mrs Elmina Garfield, of Plainville, and Mrs. Hannah Granger, of New Britain, who have been visiting their sister, Mrs. M l.. Hotchkiss, in Nor folk, returned to their home on We'd nesday.
 MT and Mrs. Luther Ryer of Jersey City, and Mrs Ford, of Brooklyn, are guests of Mrs. William T. Ryer, of Brusby Plain, and Mrs. Arthur Honce, of Moose Hill, Branford.
 The many friends and acquaintances formed by Rear Admiral Francis M. Bunce, U. S. N, retired, during the so- journ of himself and family in New Haven for some months a year or two ago will be sorry to learn that he re- gently was obliged to submit to an op- eration entailing the removal of nearly all of his tongue. He is a patient at the Eliot hospital, Commonwealth ave- nue, Boston, where the operation was perforced. Admiral Bunce, accompa- nied by his wife and two daughters, arrived in Boston Sunday, June 30, and | went directly to the hospital, where on Monday Dr. Maurice Richardson per- formed the operation The operation | was successful, and Admiral Bunce | rallied finely An excellent physical | condition generally stood him in good | stead and he is expected to be able to leave the hospital within week. Ad miral Bunce has suffered for many | years from a cancer of the tongue, for which he has been unable to secure permanent relief. Some time ago he upon heroic treatment. AL though the surgeon was obliged to re- move the major part of the tongue, Ad- miral Bunce will not be wholly deprived of the power of speech. His wife and daughters are with him at the hos oital and will remain until he is able to leave.
 Superintendent and Mrs. Beede will cave town for several weeks the lat ter part of July, visiting Mrs. Beede's nome at Dover, New Hampshire for ] fortnight and then going to North port. Maine, to remain until Septem- per 1.
 Viola Gladding, who has been spend ng the summer with her aunt, Mrs. c. W. Harrington, of Hopson avenue, 3ranford, fell from the back steps of he Hutchison residence on Wednesday vening while at play and rolled down he cellar stairs adjacent into the eel ar, knocking out two front teeth, cut