The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-05
l1TH AND 12TH WARD NEWS
FORMER GALES RECALLED BY
 MONDAY'S BIC BLOW
Rev. Anson Phelps stokes to Lecture on "Japnn" at Second Congregational Church To-morrow Evening.

''Japnn" at Second Congregational
 Church To-morrow Evening.
 The great gale of Monday serves to
 revive in the memory of many former : great blows. One of these gales re-
 membered as the cause of great dam age occurred about twenty-five years ago. The most damage in this Vicin- ity was the sagging of the ballspire of the Grand avenue Congregational church, It was one of the tallest and best proportioned church steeples in the state at the time, 237 feet high. The gale blew at about the same speed as was reached Monday morning. Quite a crowd watched the steeple of the Congregational church for hours seeing it sway in the gale and expecting every minute to see it topple over. But it held, although swerved several inches out of plumb and by reason of the damage more than half of it was after wards taken down. and was never re- placed
 John K. Thompson was engaged yes terday in repairing the damage by the gale to one of the windows on the west side of the Second Congregational church. The wind smashed in the low CT window, glass and frame.
 The river above Quinnipiac draw bridge is choked with ice, and steam CTS passing through have to force the passage. None of the sharpies go down the harbor during this severe weather and even large schooners have to tow Ctit,
 1bc steamer Old Colony was out in the great gale, but came through all right She brings $500 bushels of oys- ters from Narragansett bay for Smith &5 Sons of City Point and arrived yes terday.
 Ludington & Go. have just received two cargoes of oysters from Narragan- sett bay.
 The Rev Anson Phelps Stokes, ir., will lecture on Japan" in the Second Congregational church Thursday even- ing at o'clock. It is lecture well worth hearing and should ensure a large audience. The ladies will serve the usual church supper at 6:30 and MT. Stokes will be present as the guest of the pastor Rev. A. r. Irvine.
 The New Haven Gas Light company is making a test with four street lamps on the east side to show the borough fathers how gas excells naphtha. Two Welsbach lights and two naphtha lights are in use for making the test,
 The warden and burgesses of Fair Haven East met Monday evening. It was the monthly meeting, and the prn- cipal business offering was the approv- al of bills.
 The three masted schooner with a cargo Of lumber arrived in Mill river yesterday. The hull was considerably iced up, and showing the effects of the recent gale.
 MT. and Mrs. Herbert Barnes went to Philadelphia yesterday on a visit to their son, Arthur b Barnes.
 Harvey F Hemingway leaves for | New Orleans to-day, and after the Mardi Gras festivities will take run over to Cuba. He will be away for | several weeks.
 The cantata Daughters of Jairus," by Stainer, will be given by the vested | choir of thirty voices of Grace Episco- pal church, corner of Blatchley avenue and Exchange Street, on Friday even- ing, February z, at 7:45. Those who were fortunate enough to attend the last antata rendered by this choir will not need to be urged to be present. The public are invited, all seats being free. The service will be evening prayer, with the cantata in place of the usual lecture The offering will be taken by four of the choir boys One of the fin- est things in the cantata is the duet for tenor and soprano Love Divine" sung by Eugene Jeffers and Master Freddie Coe Printed texts of the cantata will be found in the pews.
 The regular meeting of East Rock lodge, A. o. IT. w., will Joe held to- (Thursday) evening, and the new officers desire a large attendance IS business of importance is to come before the lodge,
 Anthony DeMatty, the Grand avenue shoe dealer, will attend the session of the Retail Shoe Dealers association of the United States in Boston to-mor- row and Friday. Two children of the late Oscar An 1erson, who recently committed sui tide, are living at 122 Fairmount ave- lue with their uncle Gustave Ander- son. A younger child is at the New Haven County home.
 Each of the local Christian Endeavor ( societies were represented by delegates It the meeting of the New Haven C. E. lnion at Davenport church Monday evening.