The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-03

lock of hair of his son. The wallet and it's contents were kept by Hiram Buck ingham of the Sixteenth who is now in the government service in Washing ton, and were brought home by him and delivered to the widow. That was back in 1864. Mrs. Young, who died in Hartford, May 6, 1904, at the age of S6 years, had been the faithful custodian of the passes that had been given to her husband, not having allowed them to slip from her possession during the forty years. The existence of these passes had not been known outside of a small circle. The execution of Cap tain Wirtz, who had been a Hartford man in 1850 Or whereabouts, made it un- desirable that the passes should be talked about. At the present time they are in the keeping of the Krug family.
 "All things come to him who waits is an old maxim and as true as the magnate. In the absence of Governor Roberts and Lieutenant Governor Woodruff from the state the acting governorship of the state has passed constitutionally into the hands of the Hon. Samuel Fessenden of Stamford, president pro tempore of the senate. Senator Fessenden was at the capital this week attending to the executive business that required attention. It has not often happened that the presi- dent pro tempore or the senate has be- come the acting governor of the state. Back in the early eighties the Hon. Ly man w. Coe of Torrington, represent ing the old Fifteenth district, became the acting governor by virtue of the presidency pro tempore of the senate The name of Senator Coe recalls some of the most interesting memories of the Connecticut legislature. He was a man of superb business training and the exponent of the best sort of citizen ship His intelligence was as impreg- nable as the Rock of Gibraltar. He was member of the senate in 1879, which was composed of such men as the Hon. H. Wales Lines of Meriden the Hon. l. Luther Spencer of Sufield, Lorenzo Blackstone of Norwich, Oliver Hoyt of Stamford the Hon. John R. Hills of Hartford and the Hon. Freder- ick Miles of Salisbury, who was after wards a member of congress from the Fourth district. Senator Fessenden has been the recipient of distinguished honors in Connecticut and is one of the most popular public men in the state. He has shown ample qualifications for every position that has fallen to his lot in the public service, and will deserve the highest office within the gift of the state as the years go on. The honored senator from Stamford is under sixty years of age and in the full possession of his mental equipment. He is a man of the highest intellectual attachments and will serve with distinction in the most responsible public office that can be placed at his disposal.
 The Southern New England Tele- phone company Is entering upon the seasons work with the utmost energy. The current year will be the most pro- gressive one in the company's history. The new exchange In Norwich will be completed by the end of 1906, and the new Stamford exchange Is now well advanced Common battery or central energy switch-boards will be installed in both of these new exchanges, and the service capacity in each city will be more than doubled. The work of in- stalling the selected ring" system in the cities of New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport is progressing satlsfactori- ly. All of the practical benefits of the single wire service will be obtainable by the selected ring" system, meeting the demands of the public in this direc tion.Y The new switchboard at South Norwalk, which will give that city the most improved telephone service, is ready to be installed and the "cut over' from the old to the new exchange will take place within a week or two. Four miles of new overhead or aerial cable have been completed between Putnam and Pomfret and the two ex- changes in these places have been con- .solidated at Putnam. Nothing has been left undone by the telephone com pany that will increase the efficiency of service in eastern Connecticut. new submarine cable has just been completed at the mouth of the Con- necticut river for the sole purpose of expanding the eastern Connecticut toll line facilities. This cable was nineteen hundred feet in length and weighed sixteen hundred pounds. The tele- phone company will have one of the largest submarine cables in the coun- try completed by the end of the year in Bridgeport, crossing the Poquonnock river from the Congress street bridge to East Bridgeport, and connecting the two sections in the best system of tele- phony A vast amount of New work has been laid out for the year and 1906 promises in every way to be the most strenuous one in the history of the Southern New England.
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