The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-07
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS.
NO MoVEMLNT MADE TO OPhh
 CLINTON AVf SPEEDWAY.

St. James, Church Gives Delightful Entertainment--Line Below Morris Cove Blocked Against Travel by De- railment of Flow. It was expected by many people who enjoy the sport of the Clinton avenue speedway that the track would have been opened up for speeding by this time, but no move has been made. Man. ager B. s. Bradley, of the Speedway association, was asked last evening if it was not the intention to break out Clinton avenue and smooth down the track for sleighing. T can't do this work alone" was the reply. If some one is sufficiently interested to drive out team of horses with a, heavy sled and break out track I will agree to bush it down, so that when it freezes it will make a fine, hard track. But 1 can't give my time and money in doing all the work. If the people interested in speeding on the avenue will only in- terest themselves and assist I would be glad to do what I can; or if they would contribute funds to the treasury of the association I would go ahead and have good track made. I know there are a good many who are inter- ested in seeing the sport and speeding on the avenue would interest hundreds of spectators. If any want to contrib ute towards the sport, and if the horse men will also interest themselves, we could have just as fine speeding in Clinton avenue as anywhere in New England. But I can't do the work alone"
 It is well known that MT. Bradley has interested himself in preparing the track on Clinton avenue for many trot- ting exhibitions, and his friends say that it is no more than right that if speeding is really demanded this win ter where there can be fine sleighing he should have support in this endeay- or. If matinee could be arranged while the present snow is on the ground it would attract many hundred specta- tors and many horsemen to the Clinton avenue speedway
 A large number of letters were ad yertised at station A yesterday-larger
 
 Letters awaiting claimants are ad dressed to Ernest Able, Charles Carl- son, Mrs. William c. Hammond, Mrs Sofia Jansson, Sannis Lest La Liberti, Mrs. Norbin, J. O'Breine, J. M. Peck, Mrs. Mary Reilly Mrs. Mary Smith, Henry Swensen and May Vannerlee.
 The illustrated lecture to be given by Miss Ellen M. Stone will be interesting to old and young alike. She will speak briefly of her personal experiences with the brigands, but the lecture will most ly be about the work that is being done to-day by Christian people of all de- nominations to raise up a generation of self-supporting men and women from those left homeless or orphans by the cruelties of the Turks. Few people in America are so well informed on con- ditions in Turkey to-day as is Miss Stone. Don't fail to hear her at the Grand Avenue Congregational church this evening at o'clock. Admission 25 cents. Proceeds will all go to mission ary work.
 The letter carriers made better time yesterday on their several routes than
  ban routes it was necessary, for lack of time, to omit the last delivery. The walking is gradually getting better, but many walks are not yet broken out.
 Grand avenue trolley cars were de- layed considerably yesterday by teams on the west end of Grand avenue, which were loading snow. Nearly every car had to stop number of times until these teams could haul out of the way. No snow has been removed from the east end of the avenue, except around the car barns. All teams must in con- sequence be driven on the tracks or be- tween the tracks, and this is of consid- erable delay to the cars.
 There are still some pretty high drifts in the suburban roads, and some of the side roads have not yet been broken out.
 About twenty-five years ago Court Quinnipiac, A. O. F., was organized in Fair Haven and nearly all of the mem- bers reside here, but by vote it has been decided to change the meeting place from Polar Star hall to the hall at 400 State street, in the Courier building.
 
 night from Tuesday to Monday.
 East Rock lodge, F. B. L., is steadily growing in membership, as ivedenced by the fact that applications are re- ceived at nearly every meeting. Sev- eral applications were acted on at the regular meeting held in A. o. U. w. hall Tuesday evening. There was a fairly good attendance, notwithstand- ing the adverse weather and routine business received attention
 Quite a number of Fair Haven peo- pIe attended the concert by the Bos- tonia Sextette in the Public Lecture course Tuesday evening. c. L. Staats, the clarionet player and leader of the sextette, is a son of a former pastor of the Grand Avenue Congregational church.
 At Polar Star hall last evening the young people of St. James church gave a delightful entertainment, consisting of the farce Her Busy Day" and se- lections by a double quartette from the Yale University Glee club. The enter tainment was followed by dancing and was greatly enjoyed.
 A gang of men and one of the wreck ing outfits were employed yesterday in trying to get one of the big railroad blows back on the track just this side of Morris Cove. The blow, which weighs over twenty tons, was derailed Tuesday morning while clearing the tracks of snow, and in consequence the