The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-30
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
Il NUMBER OF VESSELS STORM
BOUND IN THE RIVER.

Lecture on "c"Ior"-Eiome for the Holt
days Petition 40 Remove Fifteenth
Ward from Borough JurtsdIctIon
Causing Much Discussion.
Quite a number of vessels are at the
Quinnipiac river wharves and will re-
main until after the storm. The three
nasted schooner Coral Leaf which
brought cargo of plaster, is at the
Adamant company's wharf and is along
side a barge of load of sand from Long
Island, which arrived Sunday. At the
wharf of the National Wire company
are two schooners and a barge and a
schooner from Narragansett bay is at
the wharf Of H. C. Rowe & Co The
schooner Lawry, from the provinces, is
at the wharf of the WarneTMiller CO.
This vessel brought in 900 laths from
the provinces. For the same firm the
schooner Clark brought $4,000 fire brick;
the barge Rancocas brought barge of
Windsor cement. The Clark has gone
after another cargo for Warner-Miller
company. The firm had chartered the
barge Haynes to go up the North river
and load cement, but the boat could not
get up the river owing to the ice.
The lecture by Mr.. Burnham, super
visor of drawing. will be given in Gran
| Miss hall, Strong school, Friday even
ing, January Is. His subject will be
Color" The admission is twenty
cents.
Miss Charlotte l.. Barnes, a student
at Vassar college, is spending the holi-
| day vacation at the home of her par
| ents in Montowese.
| DR.. Joseph Brocksleper of New Brit
ain has been visiting his sister in Mon
| tOwese for few days.
| The petition of some Of the citizens of
| the Fifteenth ward to have the territory
| in the Fifteenth ward, now part of the
| borough of Fair Haven East, removed
/ from the borough jurisdiction, Is being
discussed Many had not heard Of the
movement until they read the published
petition to the general assembly. For
some time past there has been a faction
in the Fifteenth ward opposed to the
| Fair Haven borough. Some of the resi-
dents Of the lower part Of the borough
claim they do not receive sufficient con-
sideration in the matter of borough i'm
| provements, particularly in the matter
of street lights. 1t is understood that it
Is this element that has applied to be
set off from the borough. Most OF the
borough is in the Fourteenth ward, but
strip of the upper portion of the Fiji
teenth ward is in the borough domain
1t is believed that when the petition
comes before the legislative committee
at Hartford there will be a lively hear
ing. and whether the people in the Four
teenth ward will oppose the petition re-
mains to be seen.
In the market of Bradley Brothers
may be seen a number of Scotch grouse.
These birds are imported and are sell
dom seen here. Some thought they were
partridge, but the Bradley Brothers do
not sell Connecticut game out of sea-
son.
Thomas O'Connor, an oysterman liv-
ing at SO James street. who fractured
his ankle by falling on the walk near
Quinnipiac bridge is gradually improv-
ing.
At the meeting of the Federati ton Of
Churches yesterday the Rev. Andrew
Burns Chalmers Of the Grand avenue
Congregational church read a very in
teresting paper on THE Art of Soul
! Winning" The coal question was dis
cussed and Mr.. Chalmers said that he
had visited the coal yards of the city
and had seen the men, women and chill
dren clamOring for coal He saw a
small boy cart fifty cents worth of
coal from a yard on Front street, Fair
Haven, to Cedar Hill. He considered
the situation here pretty serious. He
believed that many were prevented
from asking aid from the charity Or
CARNATIONS or the churches by self-re-
spect, many of them suffering rather
than make their real condition known.
Rev. Mr.. Irvine of Pilgrim church also
discussed the question.
The Christmas entertainment for the
Sunday schools will be held this even
ing in the Grand avenue Baptist church.
The usual exchange of gifts between
teachers and pupils will be omitted and
in place of this there will be offerings
Of money, food, etc, to go to deserving
families.
The cantata entitled 1.-The Holy
Night was rendered at Grace church
Sunday evening by the vested choir Of
thirty voices, assisted by Harry r. Cook,
the celebrated tenor, formerly of Wor-
cester, whose solo work was very much
enjoyed. The cantata was very finely
rendered by this we'll trained choir the
solo and quartet work being especially
good. A large congregation enjoyed the
fine singing