The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-10
l. 0. 0, f. AND OTHER NOTES
THE COMING CHANGES IN OFFT-
GERS OF GRAND LODGE.

Lawyer Philip Pond of This City for
Grand Master-Other Promotions
The Southport Monument Commemo-
rating End of PequOt War-Judges
Perry and Beardsley-The Latter's
Beautiful New Home-Berlin,sP nh
lie Library-TeIephone Achievement.
Hartford, May 9.-The Odd Fellows
of New Haven will have the honor of
furnishing the grand master Of the
Grand lodge this year, Philip Pond, the
present deputy grand master, going to
the head. Mr. Pond is a lawyer in New
Haven and deputy coroner for New
Haven county. He is exceptionally DOB.
ular in Odd Fellow circles throughout
the state. E. G. Hurlbut of New Brit
ain, the present grand warden, will be
Mr.. Pond es successor as deputy grand
master. The annual meeting Of the
grand lodge will be held in Bridgeport
Wednesday, May 16, the session lang
place at Poquonnock lodge hall. Sid
ney w. Challenger of the Bridgeport
post is the present grand master. His
administration has given complete sat
isfaction, While the growth Of the or
der has not been large, it has been
healthful, the total increase iii member
ship for the past year having been $50.
There are 81 lodges in the state. Sam
uel II. Harris lodge of Bridgeport, of
Wcih Grand Master Challenger is a
member, will work the degree of truth
with amplifcation, seVenty-five taking
part. There will be a chorus Of fifty
and an orchestra. The working Of this
degree in the amplifcations that have
been arranged by Samuel H. Harris
lodge will be an event of great inter
est in Connecticut Odd Fellowship, sur
passing anything of the kind that has
yet taken place in this state.
Ex-Speaker John H. Perry of South
port and Judge Morris B. Beardsley of
Bridgeport who were appointed COM
mittee of the Society of Colonial wars
for the erection Of a monument in
Southport, concentrating the end of
the Pequot war, have completed. the
work that was placed in their charge.
The final battle in the Pequot war took
place in 'The Swamp" in Southport in
1887. The monument has been erected
on the site of the last engagement, in
which the Pequots were vanquished. 1t
suitably commentaries that event.
Judge Perry and Judge Beardsley
graduated in the same class in Yale,
1870, and are both splendid representa-
tives of the Yale spirit and progress.
Both have been members of the gen.
eral assembly, serving the state in the
most acceptable manner, Judge Perry
| is president of the state commission
on corrupt practices in political man
agement and office holding, not a de-
siraible position, to be sure, but one
that offers an opportunity for invalu-
able public service.
The work of the commission, which
will be submitted at the next session
of the legislature, will open the way
for reforms in politics that will be Of
| lasting Importance Judge Beardsley
| is now completing one of the most ele-
giant residences in Bridgeport and will
occupy 1t with his family in June, 1t
is of the English type of architecture
and is located across the street from
DR.. Warmers superb home and grounds.
1t has been a year and half in build
| ing and will be one of the attractions in
| Bridgeport in a month.
The town Of Berlin can boast of one
A. vo,,1o1io 1bra,.ia IN NNY1-
nectiout, built in memory of an old
and honored townsman there. 1t is To-
Gated in Kensington and is within a
stones throw of Berlin junction. 1t
was the gift of Senator Henry IT..
Peck. the Waterbury banker, and COM
memorates his parents Mr.. and Mrs.
| Selden Peck. The structure was dedi-
Gated in October, 1902. Its cost was
| $4,000. 1t contains $4,000 volumes at
the present time, every book of which
| IS Of value to the public. The library
was started as q private enterprise in
! 1929 1t is now free, giving Berlin the
best of library facilities. Miss Mar
| iorie Moore, daughter of Postmaster
Roswell Moore of Kensington, is the Ii
| brarian. Senator Peck who has been
a generous benefactor fBerlin, is a
native of that town and one of it's fore
most representative in business and
public life. The senator has two sis
ters living in Meriden, Mrs. Bradley,
wife OF Nathaniel Bradley of Bradley
e. Hubbard, and Miss Lucy Peck. They
are ladies of high cultivation and social
attachments.
v The Southern New England Tele-
phone company which has been laying
a large amount of submarine cables
| since the first of March, will complete
the line across the Poquonnock at
Bridgeport in few days The cable
will be 600 feet in length and will run
from Congress street in Bridgeport tc
East Bridgeport giving increased ia
cilities for telephone service in that
locality.
The telephone company's great
achievement this year in submarine