Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-18

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 States navy. of Westerly, who has
 been naval supervisor of New York harbor was ordered to command the battleship Wyoming, flying the two star flag of Admiral Fletcher at the main and the battle pennant at the fore. The Wyoming sailed from New York Saturday for Guantanamo for a
 great drill of the combined squad rons-
 In his work as supervisor of New York harbor, Captain Dunn has some interesting comparisons of the total amount of material removed and de- posted off the mouth of the harbor and in Long Island sound, combined, since 1890. It represented 302,122,91S cubic wards an amount more than the
 total excavations Of the Panama 119
 canal. Considered as a tow it would stretch out 5S,000 miles, requiring a quarter of a million of tugs and half a million scows to handle it. It would build over 70 pyramids the size of Cheops. Dumped in the Ambrose
 channel it would make a speedway 20 feet wide, reaching from Ambrose lightship up the harbor and North river, around Manhattan Island and back to the ightship, distance of 62 1-2 miles. Sunk off Scotland light ship it would make an island 4,OO0 l feet in circumference. average height ! 240 feet above the sea level.
 Next August Captain Dunn is due to wear a flag officers stripes and his many friends will congratulate him on the transfer of his luggage from the captains to the admiraPs cabin. Rev. William Pyne. first pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Con- cePtion, Westerly, who died last week l in Providence. where he was pastor of St. Patrick's church, bequeathed the sum of $200 to the St Vincent de Paul society of the Westerly parish and a like sum to the St. Vincent de Paul society of St. Edwards church, Providence. He also bequeathed $500 to each of these charitable organ | Little Sisters of the Poor Pawtucket; St Vincent de Paul Infant asylum, l Providence: convent of the Good Shep l herd. Providence and the St. Vincent de Paul society of St Patrick's par l iSh, Providence. Rev. Thomas F. Gull l len is nominated as executor in the l will. The bulk of Father Pyne's estate 1 is an insurance policy of S2.G00 and
 his bequests to the poor are S2,400. Rev. Martin F. Reddy. pastor of St. Augustine's church. Newport. has been l appointed as successor of Father Pyne
 as pastor of St Patrick's church, | Father Reddy was born in Coventry, R. l., and made his higher studies in l the Montreal college and Grand sem 1 mary in Montreal. He was ordained
 
 | Providence cathedral, in 1896. He then | went to the Catholic university in 1 Washington for two years and received 1 the degree of Licentiate in Sacred | Theology. His first assignment as 1 curate was at Arctic and he has been pastor of St. Augsutin's church nearly 1 five years He will be succeeded in i Newport by Rev. Bernard F. Redihan, l of St. Joseph's church, Pascoag, who i will in turn be succeeded by Rev John 1 $. Dunn. $. T. L.
 The Twentieth company of United l States Marines, of the Second regi- 1 neat, with Captain Giles Bishop of 1 New London in command, is enroute 1 to join the Washington in the CaTib- bean sea for use in case of need in connection with the disturbances in Haiti This company will furnish a. | landing force in addition to the de- i tachment of 50 enlisted men and three | commissioned officers of the marine 1 corps already on board that vessel. If 1 necessary, the force of 100 marines at | Guantanamo, Captain Fay. can be util- 1 ized. Captain Bishop and his com pany were recently ordered from Phil I adelptia to New Orleans but the or 1 der was revoked by reason of the Haiti situation
 Robert TannahiI Kenneth died Sat- urday in a New Haven hospital and l the funeral will be held in Westerly 1 from the residence of his nephew, AL 1 bert T. Kenneth. He was born in 1 Westerly, May 24, 1854. He learned 1 the trade of printer i'll the office of | the Narragansett Weekly and his first i employment after leaving Westerly 1 was in the office of the New London 1 Evening Telegram, worked there sev- 1 eral years and then travelled through 1 New England working in many print 1 ing offices. He was among the fast 1 est compositions at the business and was thorough all around printer ] He finally gave up newspaper work 1 and engaged solely in job work, be- 1 ing a first class book compositor, and working for several years in Middle l town and finally locating with the Van Dyke Printing company, making his l home in New Haven.
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