The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20
VARIOUS ITEMS.

The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the New Haven Water company,
for the election Of directors for the en-
suing year and for the transaction of
| any other business that may b. prop
erly brought before the meeting, will b
| held at the office Of the company, No.
| rs Crown street, on Monday, February
| 2, at II q. m.
! DR.. James H. Kingman is coming to
MiddletoWn in few days from Paw
tucket, r. l., to open an office. He is a
graduate of Yale college and of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of
I New York, and was an inferno in Bel
levue hospital.
Seven barges of coal arrived here yes
terday morning, and more is to follow.
The tug Weed arrived with four barges
bringing in about 1000 TONS and three
more barges came in bringing about 900
tons. The tramp steamers for the Con-
solidated and the New Haven Cooper
ative Coal company are expected to ar
rive daily.
The Steinert scholarship of $3.50 for
organ playing has been awarded by the
faculty of the department Of music at
Yale university to r. A. Laslett Smith,
organist of Trinity church, Waterbury.
The American says: This Is another
recognition of Mr.. Smiths marked abil-
ity and promise as an organist, which
is very gratifying to his friends in this
city and elsewhere, as well as to him
SELL
The Griffing Iron company, of New
Jersey, has placed a lien of $6,011 on the
new high school building to protect it
for a bill it has against the National
Steam Economizer company, of Nor
witch. The latter company had the con-
tract for heating the building and the
school district abrogated. the contract
because the company was too slow. The
lien was recorded in the town clerk s
office yesterday.
There have been rumors in railroad
circles for some time to the effect that
the Central New England road WAS go
ing to pass into the hands Of the Con-
solidated. Inquiries, says the Hartford
Courant, fail to furnish anything con-
firmatory. but that is always the case
with railroad conundrums. Nobody
knows anything until the right time.
In his report to the governor. on
which he is at present at work, High
way Commissioner James H. Macdon-
aid, Of this city, will call attention to
the fact that to Hartford is due the
credit Of using the first stone that was
crushed by a stone crusher. That was
in the year 1859. The crushing machine
was invented, says MIR. Macdonald, by
Eli Whitney Blake, nephew of the in
ventor Of the cotton gin. While he was
experimenting the laying of macalam
on Whalley avenue, this city.
At the services at St, Mary's church
Sunday the pastor, Rev. Father
Thuente, read the annual report. which
showed that during the past twelve
months the receipts had exceeded the
expenditures by about $4,000. The total
receipts were in the neighborhood of
$15.U0O. OF this sum $4,000 was used to
reduce the floating Indebtedness, leav-
ing a handsome balance of about IL SEQ
in the treasury to-day. AS will be seen.
the record Of the past year is Il SPLEEN
did one, the receipts exceeding The OK
penditures by a handsome margin.
Joseph E, Parsons, aged fifty years,
foreman employed BY the Wilcox &
Wright Organ company in Aferiden,
was instantly killed by a fail yesterday.
He slipped on piece Of ice in the rear
Of his house and struck on the baCiT Of
his head. Conclusion Of the brain