The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-03
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
VARIOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST
 HERE AND THERE.

I Churches-PIan to Deepen the Chan
 nel-Damage by Young October Gale.
 The Rev. Carl stackman and wife of 264 Blatchley avenue. will sail from New York November for Cape Town, South Africa, via London, England. Mir. ] Stackman goes out to assume the du- ties of field secretary of the South Af- rican Christian Endeayor Union, hay i ing been selected by Father Endeavorer Clark, president of the United Society of Christian Endeavor. Mir. staekman's territory will be the whole of the large province of Cape Colony. His work will have to do with the 400 societies Of 1 Christian Endeavor in the province, strengthening the weak societies and forming new ones. He goes out for three years. MT. Stackman says his home will be in Cape Town, a city of l 900G0 people, with an American sub urb. The climate is healthful and much like that of southern California. MT. Stackman has been pastor of the Con- Z Et6ICSdllUlle1l AlA AAASAAASSJ NNttsN the Second Congregational church of Cornwall. He is a graduate of Am herst college and of the Yale Divinity school He has been much interested lpresident of the Housatonic Y. F. 5. Q. l E. union, and is chairman of the com mittee which arranged for the state convention of the societies to be held in Hartford October ', 8 and 9. His wife is a daughter of M. M. Gower of a64 Blatchley avenue. MT. and Mrs. Stackman's friends will wish them suc- cess in their new field of labor
 At most of the churches yesterday the monthly communion service was ! celebrated. The service at 9:S0 a. m. at the East Pearl Street church was the quarterly love feast. The Rev. D. W..
 Stone yesterday began the sixth year of his pastorate at the Grand Avenue Baptist church and during the morn 4 ing service he referred to this fact and Isaid he trusted that cooperation and sympathy which had been extended to I him in the past, would be continued. 4 Mir. Stone will preach the annual ser
 mon Wednesday morning at the seven 4 Ity-ninth annual meeting of the New l Haven Baptist association, at the First church, Meriden.
 Mrs. Otis H. Waldo is visiting her Isister Miss Marie Ives.
 Mrs. Frederick Russell and children Eof 9S Grand avenue have returned from
 Paterson, N. J.
 Mrs. Etta o. Burroughs, who has re- lsided for number of years at 1S Per kins street, will remove to-day to S76 Elm street.
 The regular meeting of the vestry of Grace church will be held this evening | at s o'clock in the parish house.
 MT. and Mrs. James Jordan of Fill lmore street have gone to Middletown, IN. Y, to attend the marriage of a relative
 I The funeral of George F. Schenk, who q died in Hartford, will be held at the aIresidence of his brother-in-law, John
 Naumaan, 20 Saltonstall avenue, this lafternoon at 2:S0 and the interment will
 be in Evergreen cemetery
 ! The plan to deepen the channel from I Tomlinson bridge to Quinnipiac bridge, lis matter that will be generally com mended in this section of the city. There lis depth of twenty feet at low water up to Tomlinson bridge, and only fifteen feet beyond, but it is the plan of the I engineers to make the entire channel I of uniform depth. There is demand
 for better water facilities at the iron I and steel mills on the east side of the I river, as it has been necessary for some iof the larger steamers with steel billets to discharge down the harbor. It is l expected the government engineers will l consider the matter next month and l recommend to congress a proper ap- 5I Ipropriation for this work
 I The young October gale which blew with such violence for time Satur- j day afternoon shook some of the late fruit from the trees. and removed many la decayed branch from trees where trimming had been neglected. Most of l the summer craft had been laid up for the season and there was little injury to boats, but boatmen having craft in
 active use hastened to make them safe. l The wind for a few minutes attained a velocity of thirty-eight miles an hour. 5l Charles T. Jones of Columbia castle, No. g, has appointed Grand Chief Hew- llett member of the committee to pre- 2 pare a plan for presentation to the cas- ties for action looking to the creation l of state funeral aid fund Under the lpresent arrangement of the Rights of I the Golden Eagle, each castle pays it's I own death benefit, assessing each mem
 Der $1.
 l Officer and Mrs. Edward Doyle are re-
 ceiving congratulations upon the arriv- tal of son at their home, 236 James I street. A baby girl has put in an ap- i pearance at the home of MT. and Mrs. I Edward De Alino, 194 James street. \ T The october meeting of the Congrega- I tional club will be held Monday evening,
 October 1T, in Pilgrim church! pr. Jo-
 seph Strong will speak on ''Readjust-
 ment to New Social and Industrial Con-
 ditions."
 NEW HAVEN ORPHAN ASYLUM.
 Donations to the New Haven Orphan
 asylum from August 25 to September
 % 1904:
 I Legacy from estate of Lucy s. Hitch cock, of Cheshire, through E. R. Brown, { ltE n-nn