The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-17

High water to-day, 6:OS a. m.
 Next Thursday evening the ladies of the Woodmont chapel will give New England supper at the chapel.
 The New Haven Gun club will hold a tournament next Saturday at the club grounds at Schuetzen park. There will be fourteen events.
 The Smart Set for March is sur passingly fine issue. This magazine has rapidly forged to the front ranks of the magazines. Copies at the Pease- Lewis company's.
 The many friends of Edward P. Skin ner foreman of the Leader. will learn with regret of his severe illness at his home, 22 Prince street. pr. Mallhouse is his attending physician.
 On the evening of February 2l the uniformed rank of the Knights of Py- thias of the city will hold public in- stallation, open to all members of the order. A smoker will follow the cere- monies.
 The members of the Hope and First Baptist churches will meet to-rnorrow evening at Hope church for the purpose of adopting articles of incorporation. The united congregations will be known as the First Baptist church in New Ha- ven.
 Madame Louise Dotti, the celebrated prima donna and vocal teacher from ] New York, will be at room 39 Insurance building, New Haven, every Thursday beginning February 20th, from 12:3O to 330 p. m., when applications can be made for lessons and voices tried free.
 Noah Rogers, jr., of Bridgeport, for merly state agent for the Worcester Salt Go, has secured position with Stoddard, Gilbert & Co. of New Haven, and will shortly take up his residence in New London looking after the inter- ests of the grocers in that city and vii cinity.
 The death certificates for an average for the month of February, handed in to Registrar Carr's office in the city hall this month, show the largest de- crease that has been known in many moons The certificates show that there have been thirty-six less deaths than last month and twenty less than in February, 1901. The number given is forty.
 This morning work will be begun on the foundations of the new block to be erected by Joseph T. Whittlesey of Prospect street, this city, on the site of his block which was destroyed by the recent Waterbury fire. The plans ctrI,c ,cti which i. ha quite elaborate, are being drawn by Brown & Von Beren, the well known local architects The block will be 46x40 feet, four stories in height. The lower floor will be occupied by two stores.
 The distinguished lecturer, Hugues Le Roux, who is to deliver lecture while in this country, at Yale, arrived in New York; Tuesday, on the La Gas cogne. He was met by James R. Hyde, president of the French Alliance of New York. M Le RouX will remain in America for three months, and will deliver ninety-three lectures. The sub feet of his course of eight lectures be- fore the Harvard Cercle F'rancais is "The French Novel and French Soci- ety.
 "A party was SlNeil III HOilol pL hlS9 Cora Ford al her home on Davenport avenue Saturday evening. Games were played and everything done to make it an enjoyable evening. Many fine piano selections were rendered by Miss Lena Meyer. An amusing farce, Look Out for the Plants, was played by Reginald Flaherty and Harold Bowen. The West River quartette, composed of Billy Heal, Willie Lambert, Bennie Eckart, and Edmund O'Brien, sang many fine songs. ?