The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-07
Local Weather Report.
BRIEF MENTION.
oh wafer to-day. s:02 n. m.

High water to-day, 6:62 D. m.
 Friday night the park board will hold 8 session in the mayors office in city hall at o'clock.
 The Fourth of July committee will meet in rooms 1O-11 City hall at 8 o'clock tomorrow night.
 Members of the shellfish commission will meet in the office of A. McC. Mathewson to-day for their regular monthly meeting.
 The tugboat Reno belonging to E. $. Henderson, dredging contractor of Albany, was burned to the waters edge in East Haven river early Sunday morning.
 Civil service examination for engin- eers for road rollers and the public bath house will be held in the aldermanic chamber, city hall, tomorrow night at 8 o'clock.
 The members of the Yale varsity crew, substitutes, trainers and camp followers, will leave tomorrow for Gales Ferry, where they will remain until after the race with Harvard.
 James w. Alexander, president of the Equitable Life Insurance company of the United States, lectured in the Yale insurance course in Osborn hall yester- day afternoon. His subject was "The Hazard of Inexperience."
 Morris J. Beck, the well known liquor dealer, was arrested yesterday after noon by Policeman McQueeney of the Howard avenue station. MT. Beck is charged with failure to display his li- cense number on his automobile.
 The contract for furnishing the city with 100 gross tons of coal for use in the city hall was awarded yesterday afternoon to McCusker & Schroder at S6.01 ton. The l.. c. Gilbert 6 Co. was the only other bidder. Its figures was $6.15 ton.
 Residents in the vicinity of Howard avenue engine house are very much de- lighted. This is du etc the fact that that the clock of the engine house has new face and they are enabled to tell distinctly now just what time 1t indi- cates. The clock has an illuminated face which can readily be seen from a great distance.
 c. W. Blakeslee & Sons, the contrac- tors, have completed the laying of the piers for the new armory of troop A in Orange street. They have also com pleted the piers for the rifle range at the armory. This range will be 200 yards in length and it is said that when completed it will be the largest inside range in New England.
 Large patches of greenbacks were dished out yesterday by the grievance committee of the Car Workers union to those members who had served on the general grievance committee, which affected a settlement over wages and hours with the company. Each man received a days pay for every days session. including expenses.
 At the Humprey Street Emmanuel church it was announced during the services Sunday by pastor Rev. Geo. Heczlxo that the survivors of the late Mrs. Elise Kuechel have donated a memorial fund of $250 Eight young men oe the congregation were voted into voting membership, while seven were received as paying members.
 There will be no formal class day at the Yale school of forestry this year. The members of that department of the university are just now away on field work. which will continue till the close of the school year. They will return to the university fo rthe commencement exercises, June 2629. The school is closing the most prosperous year since it was established four years ago.
 On schedule time the shops of the L. Candee Rubber company opened yes- terday morning, after shut down lasting nine weeks. The mill depart ment was the first to begin work. The cutting department opens this morning and tomorrow afternoon the boot and shoe makers go in to fit up for work to begin Thursday morning. Seventeen hundred hands employed are reinstat- ed The long shut down was neces- sary for the installation of new en- zines and boilers.