The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-03-24
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
DREDGING THE DOCK AT THE
YALE BOAT HOUSE.

George Wallace in the Field as Demo-
cratic Aspirant for Msyoralty Honors
60 Stay-NeMs of business EuGsrprises.
The new shoe store of Anthony De
Matty at No. 1l2 Grand avenue is near
ly completed and is attracting much at
tention. Mr.. De Matty purchased the
building, which is at the corner of
Grand avenue and East Pearl street,
of F. w. Wood of Boston. 1t is two
story building with tenement on Sec
ond floor. and the lower floor was for
merly occupied by Station A. For sew
eral weeks gang of men has been at
work Transforming the store. A cellar
has been excavated and either furnace
CIR steam heating apparatus will be in
stalled in the fall. Five feet has been
added to the front of the store and a
heavy plate glass front installed, af-
fording nice show windows. An addi-
ton has also been built on the rear to
be used for a shoe repair room. The
front of the building has been greatly
improved by Il large and spacious bal
cOny built out from the second story
floor. The main store is go by q feet
and is about II feet between joints.
Newton I. Bradley and Charles Burns
did the joiner work. The decorations
were by the Jefferson & Co. The walls
and ceiling are covered with rich and
attractive paper and the wood work is
painted in handsome tints. Angelo ].
De Matty, who is associated with his
father in business, has excellent ideas
as d decorator and these ideas have
been incorporated in many of the de-
tails. The lighting will be by gas for
the present, but later electric lights are
to be installed. Handsome mirrors are
placed in the center of the large store.
The walls are lined with shelves the
entire length of the store. Some fur
Their betterments are tc be made in the
way of new fixtures. The new store is
certainly one of the finest in this part
of the city. Mr.. De Matty is now To-
Gated at AZ Grand avenue and will
move into his new headquarters April
/. He has been located in the Central
Hall building for twenty-eight years.
He is receiving many congratulations
upon his handsome store.
Yesterdays storm came pretty fierce
in the afternoon, when the wind blew
a gale. The bridges across the rivers
were particularly exposed places. Sew
eral pedestrians had their umbrellas
wrecked in the storm.
The warm rain brought a big tribe
of angle worms out of the ground and
in places they were freely distributed
on the walks. Many were collected for
fish bait
The praise service Sunday evening at,
the Grand avenue Congregational
church was very interesting and finely
renderde. The quartette choir did ex-
clelent work and the cornet solo, Flee
as Bird by Mrs. Eugene McKenna,
was especially appreciated. The pas
tor, Rev. Mr.. Chalmers, was unable to
be present owing to illness, and his as
sistant, Mr.. Roundy, officiated. An
nouncement was made that for the re-.
naming Sunday evenings, in Lent
praise services would be held in place
of the regular preaching services.
High up on the front of the Ready
Bits factory new sign in large letters
bearing the inscription, 1.-THE Ready
Bits Corporation" has been painted.
A mud digger is at work in front. of
the Yale boat house deepening the river
channel and the scows interfere with
the boats Of the Yale navy to some ex-
tent.
Friends of Alderman George Wallace,
of the Eleventh ward deny that he will
not be a candidate in the democratic
field for the nomination for mayor. 1t
is said he is in the field to stay until
the primaries shall decide who has a
majority of the delegates. Thomas l.
Kinney, who looms up pretty strong in
tn ecanvass, for a number of years
resided OH Grand avenue, Fair Haven,
but is now a resident of Whitney ave-
nue.. For number of year he was the
head roller at the wire mill on Wolcott
street He has many friends here as
has Mr.. Wallace. 1t was thought pos
sible early in the season that ex-Alder-
man C. H. Conway, the Grand avenue
druggist, might be a candidate for
mayor, but he decided not to make the
run. Had he been a candidate, Fair
Havne would have been pretty we'll
represented in this line.
John F. Maloney has broken ground
on East Chapel street for double ten
ement house. 1t will have six rooms on
each floor and modern improvements.
The lot is just west of the Maloney
building on the corner of Ferry and
Chapel tsreets. The new house will be