The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-22
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
FUNERAL OF THE LATE MORGAN
 CLARKE THIS MORNING.

Wedding of Miss Thompson and Irving
 N. .TayIor-Funeral of Captain Alfred
 ThOmas--A Sketch of Hts Career-Pes.
 sonal, Etc.
 The marriage of Miss Nellie May
 Thompson to Irving Nelson Taylor took
 place on Wednesday afternoon at five
 o'clock at the home of the brides sis
 ter, Mrs. H. B. Van Name, of East
 Pearl street. Rev. Andrew Burns
 Chalmers officiated. The bride is a
 daughter of MT. and Mrs. John F. Thompson, of 120 Atwater street. She
 is well known in local musical circles and has sung as soprano in several of the churches. The groom is a book keeper at Gilbert & Thompsons. Only the immediate relatives were present at the ceremony. The rooms were prettily decorated for the occasion. The couple received number of handsome gifts. After a short wedding trip MT. and Mrs. Taylor will reside in a newly fur nished house on Carmel street. The brides gown was of dark blue albatross, with white waist. She carried a bou- quet of white roses. The groom for merly resided in Fair Haven. The many friends of the couple will bestow hearty congratulations.
 Morgan H. Clarke, father of Chaun- cey M. Clarke, of GA East Pearl street, died Wednesday after a short illness at the age of seventy-nine years. He was an old resident of Fair Haven and was member of the firm of Broughton & Clarke, dealers in hardware and crock cry, which years ago carried on busi- ness on the east side. The funeral will be held this morning at il o'clock from the home of his son.
 Rev. MT. Chalmers, of Elgin, I'll, is visiting his brother, Rev. Andrew Burns Chalmers, of East Pearl street.
 The National Wire company has bought of George M Graves property located on Fairmont avenue and ex- tending to Quinnipiac river. The price paid is understood to be $9,0O0
 The funeral of Captain James M. Townsend of 300 Townsend avenue, will be held from Center church this after noon at 2:30 o'clock. The Second com pany, Governors Foot Guard, of which the deceased was a member, will attend in a body
 Funeral services over the remains of Captain Alfred Thomas will be held N ,.,J noon at 1 o'clock. Rev. pr. Streeter of East Pearl street M. P. church, of which the deceased was member, will officiate. The deceased was one of the oldest sea captains of this place He. went to sea at the age of ten years, sail ing from his native country, Denmark, studying navigation with the captain of the vessel, and before he had fully mas tered the study his usefulness as a sail or won for him a promotion to second mate. Later he became first mate and at the age of twentythree years was captain of a vessel. He had sailed under the Danish, Norwegian English, French, German and American flags. He came to Fair Haven in the early fif- ties and his home had been there ever since. He built here and owned the schooner Klaiberg, which he command ed several years. The craft was built at Baldwin's yard He also command ed several oyster vessels running here from Virginia. For six years he was employed by Piersall & Co. in the fruit trade between the West Indies and New York For the past ten years he had been captain of the steamer Amanda, of Lancraft Brothers oyster fleet. One of his employers, in speaking of Cap tain Thomas, said. with his sterling good qualities he secured and retained the confidence and respect of all who knew him. and doubt if he had an ene- my in the world"
 Attending the annual banquet of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday night were N. A. Kendall, A. R. Bradley, J. A. Fogarty, l.. w. Moody, A. B. Moody, W. A. Warner and w. M. King, of Fair Haven.
 John Lewis has sold to the New Eng land Prepared Food company 12O feet of land on Lenox street.
 F. H. King recently presented to the chief and foreman of Quinnipiac Hose l and Hook and Ladder company the sum ,f $50 to be devoted to new uniforms for ,, the members.
 Yesterday donations were received for | St. Francis orphan asylum. The col ectors from St. Francis parish were as follows: Walter J. Connor, James P. Landers, Patrick Kent William H. Me- Donald, Patrick Bree, T. Eagan, Frank Foley, Thomas Keane, James Haren, ;. T. Conway, Walter Walsh, John John Burns and John Gib- 1ons.
 Russell H. Pollard, of S9 Ferry street, celebrated his tenth birthday anniver ,ary Wednesday evening by inviting tome of his young friends to his home. The time was pleasantly passed by the children in playing games, after which supper was served. Master Russell re- ,eived a number of presents. Those vho attended were Daisy Lennon, Eva smith, Olive Bishop, Pearl Smith, Fred lie Hudson, Everett Lennon. Henry lennon, Robert Howard, Joseph Locke, Row Locke and Russell Pollard.