The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14
NEWS OF HARTFORD No Meeting of Public Utilities Commission Until
 March. FINE PORTRAIT OF DIBBLE Arrangements Are Being Made for One in the Capitol
 Building.
(special Correspondencc.)

Hartford, Feb. 13.--Attorney General Marcus M. Holcomb, who Is president of the State Public Utilities commits sion will not call a meeting of that body until the middle of March. Ralph
 o. Wells of this city, clerk of the com mission is accommodating data from diff
 ferent sections of the country to be used by the commission in It's deliber- ations. MT. Welles who is tho son of D. H. Welles, actuary of The Connect icut Mutual Life Insurance company
 Is graduate of Yale University, class of 1901. He was a classmate of Will liam Mills Maltbie of this city. who is one of the most promising members of the Hartford bar. being in practice with his father, the Hon. T. M Malt bic. He graduated from the Yale Law school and Welles from Harvard and is in the law office of Charles E. Per kins. He has special adaptabiity for the work that has been assigned him by the commissions Since the death of Judge Elmer of Middletown in Novem- ber 1907 there has been no official state referee. The statutes provide that the office of state referee shall be filled ty retiring judges of the higher courts. Judge Elmer assumed the office No venlber S, 1904 and held it three years. Obviously the vacancy caused by his death cannot be filled by the <orer- nor. Judge William Hamerslay of the supreme court who will be seventy years of age September 9, will become cta fp
 preme bench. He was appointed su- perior court judge by Governor Morris of New Haven in 1893 and assigned as Representative from Hartford to ac- cept the office. He was advanced to the supreme court, January II, 1904. He was one of the founders of The State Bar association and has made a judge of great ability in the supreme court As state referee he will letain official connection with the courts.
 Superintendent William R. Sprague of the Capitol is arranging for d portait of William Dibble, who was the first superintendent to be placed in the superintendent office. Mr. Dibole held the office twelve years. He was ap- pointed by Comptroller Chauncey How ard in 1s79 Comptroller Nicholas StauL supplanted him in 1891, the "Dead Lock" year by appointing Frederick Goebel, Jr., of Hartford. Superinten- dent Dibble died January 3, 1903 at the age of eighty years. He had been q prominent citizen of Hartford county end had held the office of sheriff His recollections of Hartford County Pol- ticians and Politics in manuscript aye in the possession of George $. Goddard
 the state librarian. They possess more or less interest from tha rlct that they give the views of a strong ard broad observer ,)f public affairs Gen. eral Andrew H. Emolcc, now treasurer of the Southern New England Tele- phone company, became adjutant gen eral on the staff of Gevurnnr Mol gan c. Bulkeley during the last of MT bib. bles superintendeacy of rne capitol. He vas a decided admlrsr Of General Elm. bier, wllos. appearAn e in the capitu was distinctly soldier like. The de
 eision of Superintendent Sprague to put s portrait of his noted predecessor il the superinte 1'isn.'.. headquarters Hil
 lncet with approval from all sides
 George r.. Hoailcy os Hartford i' collecting material for the gsncalnrs of the Hillyer family of Connecticut General Charles T. Hillyer of Hartford who accumulated large fortune hert during his life time was the brother o
 Mrs. Hoadley. the mother of the col
 lector, and half brother of Daytor Hillyer. now past ninety years of ag' and a director of The Aetna Insuranc' company for fifty years. Appleton R Hillver. who celebrsted half q century! connection with the Atna Nationa