The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-26
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
FREE DELIVERY IN I4TH AND 15TH YARDS.

All Sections of That District VIII Now be Reached by Carriers-The No smok- ing Rule on closed Cars Much Ap- preeiated-0ther Items.
 The four-masted schooner Eagle Wing and the tramp steamer Cacauna are at the dock of the National Wire and Steel company with loads of bil- lets. ....
 Next Wednesday evening the local Y. P. S. c. B. will hold it's annual meeting in the Dixwell Avenue Congregational church. Delegations from the societies of this section will attend.
 WIG. T. U. No. 2 will give ten-cent entertainment this evening in its rooms, 1T Grand avenue. The affair promises to be very attractive and will include vocal and violin solos, dialogues, recita- tions, etc, to be followed by stereopti- con views.
 This evening in A. O. U. W. hall, 25 Grand avenue, the regular meeting of Fair Haven lodge No. 2, Degree of looked for.
 | Howarth will put into operation free delivery service which will cover all sections in the Fourteenth and Eff teenth wards not at present having free delivery. This additional service is due to the untiring efforts of Postmaster Howarth, who has time and again call- ed the attention of the department to the necessity of this service. The car rier who will perform the new service is James J. Halligan, whom the depart ment has consented to equip with a horse and wagon. The additional ser- vice will cause other changes among the carriers, the most important one being the curtailing of Carrier Maurice Gains route so that he will not be oblig- ed to cross Grand avenue bridge to serve Quinnipiac avenue. That section will be served by Carriers F. McCarten and J. J. Halligan. Farren avenue, Fairmont avenue and Pardee, Lancraft, Fulton and Chamberlain streets for merly served by J. J. Halligan, will be served by Carrier Cain. The sections formerly served by Carrier McCarten, consisting of the streets east of Lexing- ton avenue, which are Sherland, Sum- init, Robertson, and Carroll streets and parts of Grand avenue and Clifton street, will all be covered by MT. Halli- gan, the mounted carrier. By this change all the east side sections will receive at least two deliveries day, which will be hailed with great delight by all.
 A parents meeting will be held in the kindergarten of Strong school next "wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at which time Superintendent Beede and Principal Graves will speak on interest ing topics. This meeting will be in the interest of parents of Strong school pu- pils.
 Thomas Scott & Go, of New London, are at work with their steam shovel just east of Ferry street bridge improv- ing the property of H. c. Rowe & Co. The Scott company will dig from the channel to the Rowe company's wharf bn the east side of the bridge.
 George Saunders, clerk at McKeon's grocery store, is rejoicing over the ar. rival of a ten-pound boy at his home in East Haven.
 Miss May Blewett, of 6s Saltonstall avenue, is spending a few days with friends in Ansonia.
 Patrick Byrnes and Richard Newman will leave to-day for the Adirondacks, where they will spend two weeks hunt ing and fishing.
 A much-needed reform is to be { brought about tomorrow by the Fair Haven and Westville railroad by in structing the conductors of the system to enforce the following rule, which will be posted on the windows of all closed cars:
 Smoking is forbidden upon all parts of closed cars; the carrying of lighted cigars, pipes or cigarettes into closed cars is prohibited
 x The enforcement of this rule may make little trouble for the conductors, but the public in general will appreci- ate it's enforcement, and many com ments of approval are made.
 William E. Morgan, jr., of Grand ave- nue, the well-knoWn baritone, has been selected to succeed Riley Phillips, jr., as soloist at the synagogue of the Con- gregation Mishkan Israel, his duties to begin on November 1. MT. Morgan is at present bass soloist at Plymouth church in Brooklyn, N. Y, but his en- gagement at the synagogue will in no way interfere with his work there. He has served in the quartettes at St. Mary's R. c. church and Center Con- gregational church, having served the latter three years, and is also mem- Der of the 70. A" quartette. His many friends congratulate him upon his se- lection as member of the synagogue choir.
 MT. and Mrs. Benton and daughter Cora, of Grand avenue, attended the re- union of a few of the guests who spent the summer at the Castleton, Castleton, Vt. which was held at Colonial Inn, Woodmont, last week.
 The regular monthly meeting of the official board of the East Pearl Street M. E. church will be held in the church parlors this evening. A full board is looked for.
 George M. Graves, the veteran boat modeler, has completed his new naph- tha launch, which has been seen on the river several times the past week. The craft is of peculiar shape and was built as an experiment and has proved itself a success in every way. It is said il can travel eleven miles an hour and has left in it's wake the fastest oyster steamers of this section. The invention is the talk of the residents along the waterfront, and MT. Graves is to be congratulated on his success in this