The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-14

The
 1s03-4 has
 Der of pupi.S
 schools of the C.
 and the compariso..
 os the school year pupils will show cuiteS
 Whittlesey avenue-Gra 2. 75; grade 3. H.: grade 4, 70; grade 6. 61; grade T. Il; grade g, "A; kindergarten, 36. To-
 Colony street-Grade 1, S4: grade. grade 3. 67: grade 4, 52; grade 5, grade 6. 55: grade 2. %: grade 8. 2s.S kindergarten, 38. Total. 4911. { North Main street-Grade 1. 49; grade ?, 37; grade 3, 49; grade 4, fifty. grade 5, h: grade s, 40: kindergarten. 2B. Total. 2sl. AdIasGasA X High chool, 1O9.
 Cottage Grade 1, A; Kindergarten, 26s Total. 70.
 South Main street Grades and 1, !7o.
 Simpson Grades and 2, 2S.
 Grand total. 1.5SO.
 The compa rison with a year tago shows an increase at the Whittlksey avenue school of 59; a decrease of s9 at the Colony street school; an increase of 5S at North Main street school; an irl- crease of 36 in the High school; fa de- crease at the Cottage school of f10: decrease of at the South Main fstreet school. and an increase of two, at the cs, T<..- year was 1.450 for the first week.
 The above figures will show an in- crease this year for the first. week tof 1S0 over a year ago The numbers Of registered pupils will undoubtedly ba further increased. judging by thes past year.
 Before the 19o2-S school yearyclosed there were registered a grand total of L716 pupils, showing an increase over the first week of that year of 206i pupils.
 The fire department was called out about o'clock Saturday morning by an alarm sent in from box 51. Electric Light station. The fire proved to be q small barn just west of Colony street and north of the Holy Trinity cemetery owned by Luke Dibiaso and was burn ed to the ground with two tons Of hay and some chickens and pig. The build- ing was nearly consumed before the alarm was sounded. Tue loss is about $100. No insurance.
 Otto Larson was arrested Saturday by Patrolman Reilly on charge of arson. A hearing was had and the case was continued until nextS $ :s:s1ass= u morning at 9 o'clock Bonds were placed at s2OO, which were furnished by John Johnson.
 Thomas Johnson was arrested Satur- day on the charge of drunkenness and he will be brought before the borough court this morning to answer to that charge and resistance to Officer George White. ss. i5zSi
 Thomas McCauley was before Judge Judd Saturday morning and was give gii Hesss thirty days in jail with s11.S8 costs.
 Laurence Nugent was up for drunken ness and breach Of the peace and was given thirty days in Jail and costs, s12.o7 on the first charge and thirty days or, second. Both were arrested by Patrol man Daniel O,Reilly.
 John J. Phelan has been appointed by the Central school district committee to take the enumeration of children in the above mentioned district between the ages of 4 and Is on October |
 Rev. Homer A. King Of Philadelphia, a union evangelist, began yesterday a series of revival meetings in the Advent church. The meetings will continue all this week.
 The petition being circulated to be presented to the Consolidated road ask ing. that the S:21 train south in tho morning be changed to it's old time Of S:53 or else stop the 9:11 express at this station does not meet with favor by all the residents here, especially the young ladies who attend the Normal school iii New Haven, and quite a. number do not desire the change asked for, but Of course would be pleased to have the ex- press stop here.
 DeForest H. Peck, one of the inmates of the Masonic home, died Friday night after a weeks illness with intestinal af- lection, aged seventy-six years. He was born in Simsbury. and was a member of St. Johns lodge of Hartford. Services were held Saturday afternoon, conduct ed by Rev. Robert Craig of Paterson. N. !. The body was taken to Bloorn- field for burial
 Mrs. Edgar A. Manning and child re- turned to Montclair, N. J., Saturday.
 Mrs. w. H. Allen and Mrs. c. M. Allen are visiting in Saugerties, N. r.
 Rev. J. Owen Jones writes from Paris under the date of September 8 that he is improving in health.
 Simon s. Van Tassell left Saturday for the White mountains.
 The Country club does not seem to have much success in winning games out of town as on Saturday. the team was badly defeated by the Maple Fills in New Britain.