The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-14

4 New Type of moebr Boat BeIng Built
 by N. A. Beebe-Govsrnmsnt Dredge
 Hack to work-A Largely Attended
 whist.
 MT. and Mrs. Edwin R. Slater of 25S Lloyd street will celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of their marriage to- morrow. January 18th, and will be "at home'' to all friends from 3 to 10 D. m.
 A new type of mAtor boat is being built by N. A. Beebe of Pine street and the result of the experiment will be watched with interest. Mir. Beebe, who is a skilful mechanic, is constructing the craft himself and will use it the coming summer at his cottage. "Yu- mah," at Hotchkiss Grove. The hull is to be g feet long and feet breadth of beam. It will be light draft, so as to make landing anywhere along the sound. A look at the plans at first sug- gests the sharpie construction, but this form is not really followel out. While the bottom will be quite flat so as to insure a light draft of water, the sides are to be rounded and there will be sweep of the stern to afford buoyancy; this special design is to prevent drag ging, which is such bad feature of many light draft motor boats. Tn the special design for the after-build, MT. Beebe will have made an entirely new departure. He believes that when the boat Is driven at full speed the fullness of the after body will prevent the set ting of the hull, thus a speedy model is looked for. There is quite large fleet of naphtha boats in this section and not one of the Beebe model. If the boat proves flyer. as is expected by those who have seen the plans. it is probable that several other builders will follow out the new ines of con- struction in the new boat.
 The drelge, which was working on the government job of dredging the channel of the Quinnipiac river and which was forced to abandon the work on account of the ice, will soon be at work again as the ice in the river is rapidly breaking up.
 A largely attended whist was held Tuesday in A. o. U. W. hall by Colum- bia castle, K. G. E. There were thirty six tables and for the ladies Mrs. Tay- Tor won the first prize, a salad dish; Miss Minnie Flight, the second, pin cshion: and Miss Wilson's, the third. a china tray. The first gentlemens prize was won by Martin Gessler. pocket knife; the second b yC. Bennett, pack of cards in burnt leather case; the consolation by MT. Hemingway, bric-a- brac. The meeting of the castle was held before the play and it was voted to have the entertainment committee act in conjunction with that of Rock castle for the purpose of entertaining the Grand lodge officers at the open meeting of Rock castle, January 25.
 A merry party of about thirty juniors of St. Andrews M. E. church Junior league enjoyed delightful sleigh ride on Monday evening. A few of the junior graduates also joined in the fun and all had good time together Friends in Foxor. East Haven and the Cove somebody was having a sleigh ride by the greetings they received from the happy junior crowd
 The condition of the crosswalks last evening, during the storm. was very bad and in some places rubber boots were necessary in order to cross the streets without getting ones feet wet.
 The schooner Robert O. Marshall is in the harbor with four thousand bush els of oysters from Narragansett Bay to Ludington X Sons.