The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-31
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 ACROSS THE RIVER.

Serious DOubIe-Ripper Accident--Death
 of the Widow of Herbert D. Billiard
 Absence of Fast Horses on the Speed
 way-Great Week Among the Fra
 ternities-AM the Social and Personal
 Items 0s Note.
 No serious double-ripper accident has been noted until Tuesday evening, when several were injured on the east side in a collision between one of these big sleds and a coal wagon. Miles Math- ews was steering a double ripper down East Grand avenue hill at about o'clock. There were. seven or eight boys and girls aboard, and the ripper had attained considerable speed. A coal wagon was seen coming up the hill and Mathews tried to avoid it, but somehow the steering gear did not work properly and the ripper ran into the wagon, throwing all out upon the snow. Mathews was the worst injured, having sustained a fractured arm and otherwise being hurt. He fainted once or twice from his pain, but was picked up by his companions and taken to his home, 264 LenoX street and a physician was sent for to reduce the fracture. One girl lost several teeth and another girl had her side bruised, but, consid- ering the speed at which the ripper was going and the impact with thS wagon, the party got off pretty lucky, accord ing to the belief of those who witnessed the accident. Mathews is a son of Thomas Matthews, proprietor of the New England Warp company. Double rippsrs get a long slide at that point, starting at Summit street and running for over four blocks.
 The death of Caroline NJ, widow of Herbert D. Billiard, occurred Tuesday at her home 122 Poplar street, at the age of ffty-six years. She leaves son, who resides in New York, and sister, Mrs. r. F. Tyler, of this city. Mrs. Billiard will be buried tomorrow after noon and Rev. Dr. Sheath will oficiate at the funeral The interment will be in Evergreen cemetery. Mrs. Billiard was native of Cambridge, Mass. The Manufacturers railroad, which has just been sold to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, is one of the smallest rail- roads in the state. Fair Haven has al- ways maintained considerable interest in the line, because it practically runs through Fair Haven territory. It be- gins at Cedar Hill, ard after extending to the factories along near the water front it turns for several hundred feet up South Front street. There has been a plan to extend the line further up Front street and it may yet go across Grand avenue and into North Front street. During the past season repairs have been made to the trackage and the line placed in first-class condition. It is expected that in the hands of the New York, New Haven and Hartford the property will be run in a manner to | conserve the interests of the shippers along the line. The company owns one NlCClIlC llOtpi c1llAl lllI PO1Si ID OpNcAiii
 ed from the power house in Grand ave- nue. It is expected that more motors will be put on the line, as it will be the policy of the New Haven road to move its cars as rapidly as possible after they are ready, as the company has need for all of its freight cars.
 There isn't much sleighing enthusl- 4l.t .tr,r i,,e ir
 not very good, it was expected that | something would be doing on Clinton avenue this week. but there has been an absence of fast horses on the course. | It needs another fall of snow to ensure good speeding, and then possibly there may be a test of speed between some of the local fast horses, as well as for | horses from the center of the city. 1 There are a number of horsemen who would like to participate in a race over
 the snow, but there doesn't seem to be any one at present to go ahead and get up race.
 This has been quiet week among the local fraternities. Several lodges
 meet at 4. o. U. w. hall, 25 Grand avenue, but none is meeting this week,
 nor at Polar Star hall. There was a
 gathering at the Firemens hall last Ievening, but that was for whist meet.
 The Loyal council, K, of C., turned out
 in strong numbers Tuesday evening,
 but the meeting was held in K. of C.. hall, Chapel street. Tomorrow evening
 the Fort Hale lodge, N. E. o. P, will hold its regular meeting in A. O. U. w., hall.
 Among the sales of the week was that of twenty-nine acres of land at Light house Point by E. A. Morris and others to w. A. Clark. This property is locat- ed on Lighthouse road.
 There will be a meeting tomorrow evening of the Wayside Cleaners at the home of Mrs. D, J. Clark in East Haven
 to make plans for a supper to be given | in two weeks.
 The schooner Beswick, which brought
 in a cargo of oysters from Providence 1 for F. Mansfield & Sons, has sailed for another cargo. The channel of the riv- CT was frozen again yesterday morning and the steamer Amanda broke it out and ,ar,,,3tfad a ct,,nll 1ant of bpn 4c to