The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-11
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
APPROXIMATELY CONCERNING
 NEW HAVEN PEOPLE

And Other People Known in This City Local Social Events Here aud EIss- where.
 Among the recent quiet social events was a private dinner party given by General and Mrs. George H. Ford in honor of the distinguished English art ist, Sir Philip Burne-Jones. Bart, who has been summering at Newport and who is now the guest of MT. and Mrs. Thomas Wallace Of Prospect Hill. The honored English visitor is much delight ed with our city. and it's environs. be- ing particularly impressed with the many beautiful scenic effects and land- scapes which New Haven and vicinity affords. The dinner at General and Mrs. Ford's was served on the terrace the garden being illuminated by Chinese lanterns, and delightful music, both vocal and instrumental, was rendered by artists hidden from view in the shrubbery.
 Clarence B. Willis, whose circle of ac- quaintances in New Haven is wide, al- though he has been away from here twenty years, was in town yesterday on a flying visit, stopping with his broth CT, Ashley Willis, and wife, on Ferry street. Clarence is secretary of the Mill waukee Y. M. c. A., and he, with his wife have just returned from attend ance as delegates to the International '. M. c. A. conference held at Christi- ana, Sweden, and which closed August 25 There were 2,100 delegates at the convention representing thirty-one diff ferent nations. There were thirty-five United States delegates in attendance. MT. Willis looks the picture of good health. He stands over six feet in height and weighs about 25O pounds with little superfluous fieah. He is one of the most successful Y M. c. A. men in the west. MT. Willis was a promi- nent Y. M c, A. leader in New Haven before going to Milwaukee
 One of our former Chapel street mer- chants, Milius Frank, whose store for years was in or near the Y. M. Institute building, is on town with his wife and his daughter, Miss Helma, the guests of Andrew Goodman on Court street. MT. Franks wife and MT. Goodman's wife are sisters. MT. Frank has to be wheeled about by an attendant not having recovered from shock of paral- ysis which he suffered while in Europe three or four years ago, and which af" fleets his right side. MT. Frank, after leaving here was engaged in business in New York city for a number of years. His health failing, he went to Europe to recuperate, and after stay there of a year and a half he was so much im- proved that he was about to start for home and was then stricken with the shock His physicians say that he may live many years, but that it is doubtful if he recovers from the effects of the raraIysis. MT. Franks son Louis Frank is in business in New York en- gagged in the ostrich feather manufac- turing business.
 MT, and Mrs. H. c. Warren of 271 Whitney avenue, who have been abroad for the entire summer, returned home Tuesday.
 Henry J. Reynolds of IS Asylum street returned home yesterday afternoon from a ten days vacation trip visiting Atlantic City, Saratoga and Niagara Falls.
 ,. I IIs oldest and best known horsemen, sailed yesterday morning from Boston with twenty-two fine driving horses for the Liverpool market.
 Howard Hinkel, formerly of the Har- strom school, now of Yale, is taking a special course at Professor. Harstrom' school, South Norwalk, preparatory tc returning to Yale.
 pfr A+Fn1 has returned from short stay in the White mountains
 Secretary Frank G. Bassett of the Bassett family association, has receiv' ed a number of returns from the circu lars inviting members of the family tt the annual reunion, to be held in the Colonial Inn, West Haven, September 19 Those who have sent for tickets re side for the most part in Connecticut Massachusetts and New Jersey, abou fifty being expected
 The Misses Mamie and Emma Schif ferdecker of Congress avenue, who hav' been stopping at Asbury Park for thu summer, have returned to their home having enjoyed a most pleasant SO journ.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter F.. Clark ant XXI wife arrived in Walltngford Iuesda, and are the guests of MT. and Mrs Charles C. Phelps Mir. Clark is tn Washington correspondent of the Pos Intelligence, of Seattle, Wash.
 Mrs. Lewis F. Andrew of 28 Ware place, has returned from a two weeks visit with her grandmother in Nauga tuck, Conn.
 General A. w. Greeley, chief of tn United States signal corps, before hi departure from New London, took tn occasion to compliment Miss Oliv Turner, who was telephone operator a the general headquarters at the Crocke house during the manoeuvres of tn army and navy. Miss Turner, with al assistant, had full charge of the tele phone office at the generals headquar ters.
 E. D. Jeffers of this city has beer engaged to succeed Calvin T. Purdy, a piano salesman for W. S. Sturtevant il South Norwalk. MT. Jeffers is learning the new ropes of the position this week
 e. w. Whittlesey and family wh 0 have been visiting in Gloucester, Mass are home again.
 Elsie Lightfoot will take the place c Claude Kendall at the Norfolk tele oaaoa on J,ic rnrIIrp Tn Va1e th