LOCAL NEWS.
In a circular received' at this office
announcing the annual meeting and
field day of the postal clerks’ mutual
association, to be held at Lighthouse
Point, July 17, we find a base ball game
between Connecticut and Massachusetts
cheduled to take place with Postmaster
W. H. Malone of this city as um-
pire. We fail to find “Sim” Keith
entered for any of the events but sup-
pose he will be in the tub race.
Class day was observed at Hillside
Tuesday- afternoon. A luncheon was
served and a souvenir presented each
guest. At the meeting of the Alumni
officers were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, Miss Gertrude France; vice-pres-
ident, Miss Grace Haviland; secretary
and treasurer, Miss Grace Byington.
At 4 o’clock the class day exercises
were held. In the evening Mr.*Ed-
ward Baxter Perry delighted his hear-
ers by his excellent piano playing.
A farewell reception was tendered
Rev. and Mrs. T. K. Noble at the old
Congregational parsonage Monday.
The parlors were beautifully decorated
with roses and potted plants and avery
large assemblage of the society were
present.
passed in a social manner. Mr. and
Mrs. Noble together with a party of
friends leave here next week for Cali-
fornia. and upon their return will oc—
cupy the Cowles residence lately be-
queathed the society.
The Army and Navy club of the
state of Connecticut, will hold its nine-
, teenth annual banquet in the Fort
.Griswold House, New London, on the
25th inst. Mr. S. J. Fox, of New Ha-
ven, has just completed the arrange-
ments for the meeting. Judge Tor-
rance will be toast-master and the
other speakers will be Joseph L. Bar-
bour, lVilliam E. Simonds, Judge A. B.
Beers, J. B. Burbank, U. S. A., Col. H.
H. Adams and Col. George D. Bates.
William H. Savage of Harvard, Mass,
aveteran of the late war, arrived in
Norwalk Monday afternoon about 4
o’clock on his wheel en route to Gettys-
burg. To a GAZETTE reporter Mr.
Savage stated that he left home on Sat-
urday last and hoped to have the pleas-
ure of riding over the battlefield upon
which he fought as Sergeant of Com-
pany C 15th Mass. Vols. Mr. Savage
although well along in years was in the
best of health and spirits and appeared
to enjoy cycling as well as the younger
people.
The hands on the clock had reached
'ten minutes after eight o’clock, Mon—
day evening, when Mayor A. C.
Wheeler called the council meeting to
order. The minutes of the last three
meetings were read by Clerk Lock-
wood and approved, after which bills
amounting to $602.53 were ordered paid.
Among them being one for $48 for the
use of the road roller.
This ended the regular routine busi-
ness of the board whereupon Council-
man Boyer presented a resolution
adopting the modified assessments and
defining the new layout of Wall street
on the south side, as printed in these
columns some weeks since, and it was
unanimously adopted.
Mr. Boyer followed this resolution
with another instructing the Clerk to
publish the assessments and layout
three times in the EVENING GAZETTE
and give the interested property own-
ers due legal notice, after the date 0;
such publication and notice the assess-
ments to be due and payable in thirty
days.
Mr. Boyer also introduced another
resolution to pay damages So appraised
within sixty days after such notice,
and if any were refused the money to
remain in the city treasury subject to
order.
The bond of city tax collector Captain
Addison A. Betts was presented and
accepted by the Board.
I The finance committee was author-
ized to borrow $4,000 on the credit of
the city, and on motion of Councilman
Kent the committee was also authorized
to pay the interest on the bonded» and
floating indebtedness of the city when
' it became due on July 1.-
Engineer Wood who had been in-
structed to see that water and gas pipes
were properly connected before Wall
street improvements were begun, re-
. ported‘that on this side of the Bridge
connections were all made excepting at
the Danbury & N orwalk R. R. depot,
but that this would be made this week.
On the other side of the bridge there
were several connections to be made
but all property owners had promised
to have them completed by next week.
Councilman Smith, committee on
Wall street paving, reported progress
and stated that he would have a definite
report to make -by the next meeting.
He also remarked upon the method of
street sprinkling, but made no sugges-
tions. In this connection Mayor
Wheeler stated that he° had received
several complaints of the present sys-
tem of water carts.
Clerk Lockwood stated that he re-
ceived a communication from Burr
Smith, administrator of the Doty es-
tate, refusing to repair the sidewalk in
front of the West avenue property ow;
ing to the same having been used as a
driveway by the city when the sewer
was laid. Engineer Wood stated that
-the sewer laid in 1888 did not extend
to the Doty property, having stopped
in front of the residence of O. E. Wil-
' son, and that the other sewer was laid
A delightful evening was,
twelve years prior to that, which made
it rather ancient history. In laying
,the Leonard street sewer Mr. Wood
stated that he was present every day
and the Doty sidewalk had never been
used as a driveway.
Councilman Hill, committee
sewers, was authOrized to construct a
catch basin on the south side of Water
street, the railroad company paying
half the cost of same.
The report of the railroad commis-
sioners were read, which instructed the
Consolidated railroad to erect within
forty-five days, gates upon both sides of
their tracks at Cross street crossing
and place electric bells at the Cather-
ine street and Nash street crossings.
Mayor Wheeler stated that he had
had an interview with the Tramway
officials and that the city would prob-
ably receive a check for the company’s
contribution towards the Wall street
improvements in a few days.
The meeting then adjourned until
Monday, July 5. ,
The Fairfield West Association of
Congregational ministers held a specia1
meeting, yesterday, in the parlors of
the South Norwalk Congregational
church.
The matter brought up was the con-
sideration of a charge of misrepresen-
tation preferred against Rev. C. M.
Arthur, pastor of the Norfield Congre-
gational church in Weston. Mr.
Arthur was accused of joining the as-
sociation upon his statement that he
had never belonged to another clerical
body, when, in reality, he had held
membership with one in the west.
The moderator of the association is
Rev. H. C. Woodruff of Black Rock,
and the scribe, Rev. C. F. Luther of
Bedding. Nearly all the members
were in attendance.
The accused was in South Norwalk,
in charge of an attendant of the VVest-
port Sanitarium, where he is being
treated for nervous prostration, but
did not attend the meeting until a short
time before adjournment.
His interests were to have been
looked after early in the session by his
attorney, J. Belden Hurlbutt but he
was refused a hearing or admittance.
The business was transacted behind
closed doors.
The following resolution was passed:
Resolved, That in consideration of
fact that at the meeting of the associa-
tion in October, 1896, Rev. C. M. Arthur
was elected a member of this associa-
tion, when it was not then known as
has been since learned that he had been
dismissed without credentials from the
Olivet ( Mich.) assomation, and has not
since been reinstated we declare such
action null and void.‘
In taking this action we distinctly
disavow any intent to pass judgment
upon Brother Arthur’s character or
past conduct, but our action is deter-
mined by our sense of obligation of
fellowship With the Olivet association.
VVestport people have been getting
anxious because the Bridgeport Trac-
tion company has not made any move
toward extending its line from the
present terminus in Southport to that
town. President Radel, of the com-
pany, said yesterday that the surveyors
were now at work preparing plans, and
as soon as possible the company would
bring a petition to the Superior court
under the section which requires a
finding by a Judge of public necessity
and convenience. While there is an
open question as to whether or not the
extension from Southport to Westport
is a parallel of the Consolidated road,
the company will bring this position.
The steam road runs from Southport to
Saugatuck while the trolley line will
go to Westport. If not a direct parallel
it is considered a commercial parallel.
It is probable that the railroad com-
pany will appear in opposition to the
extension.
President Radel said that it is hoped
to complete the line before the summer
is over, and this will be done if legal
obstacles do not prevent. The exten»
sion can. be finished and ready for oper-
ation within thirty days after the re-
quired permission, providing there is
not an unexpected delay in getting the
material. The proposed line will be
about four miles long, and the company
intends so far as possible to conform to
the wishes of the selectmen of West-
port in building it so that there may be
no difference which may delay. There
is less than half a mile of track to be
laid in the town of Fan-field, and al-
though much has been said about the
demands of the authorities there, it is
likely that a satisfactory settlement can
be made.
‘At present the indications are that
the line will be ready for operation be-
fore fall, although it is impossible to
foretell what delay may be caused in
securing the approval of the Superior
courh
Ephraim M. Merritt had the misfor-
tune to lose his pocketbook containing
between forty and fifty dollars VVednos
day morning.
He drew a sum of money at the Nor-
walk Savings Society, and crossed the
hall to the Fairfield County National
Bank, where he made a deposit. The
balance of the money he placed in his
pocketbook and placed it in his inside
vest pocket, as he supposed, and went
to the residence of Henry P. Price on
West avenue, On his return from Mr.
Price’s he missed the pocketbook when
he reached Water street. He offers a
reward in another column for the re-
OD
turn of the money to the Fairfield
County National Bank.
Between 6:30 and 7 o’clock Tuesday
night box 32 called out the South Nor-
walk fire department for a fire in the
factory of the Hat Forming company on
Railroad place and at the rear of the
hat factory of Adams Brothers.
When the firemen. arrived flames
were shooting from the second story of
the west end of the building. Lines of
hose were quickly laid and the struc-
ture deluged with water, but by the de-
partment’s attacking the flames from
the west end instead of the east, and
the breaking out of windows to create
more draft, the fire was driven entirely
through the second story of the factory,
and it was sometime before the flames
could be extinguished.
The blowing and mixing machines on
the second floor were ruined, but the
blowing machines on the first floor
escaped with a thorough wetting en-
tailing but a small less.
A large amount of fur, the property
of the company, and several hundred
pounds belonging to the several hat
manufacturers in the city, was ruined
by fire and water.
There was an insurance of $21,000 on
the factory and machines, and $5,000
on the fur, which it is thought will
cover the loss.
The origin of the fire is a mystery as
Mr. Palmer left the factory at 5:30
o'clock and at that time everything was
apparently all right.
There was no fire of any description
in that part of the building in which
the fire started, which makes its origin
more mysterious,
At 11:40 o’clock the fire broke out
again and the department was called
out for the second time. The flames
were quickly subdued, however, and-
the firemen returned.
During the fire Ernest Barthol, John
Yost and Philip Wheeler fell through
the roof but escaped serious injury.
Young John Hines got caught between
two hose wagons and received a severe
crushing about the ribs.
While responding to the second alarm,
“Buck” Clark, who was acting captain
of Putnam Hose, was thrown from the
hose wagon and had both knees hurt.
The big double tenement house, at
35 Grifling avenue, Danbury, owned
and occupied in part by Edward Panci-
roli, of the firm of Bianchi & Panciroli,
saloon-keepers, was partially destroyed
by fire shortly before eight o’clock"
Monday morning.
The fire started upon the first floor,
on the east side of the house, in the
kitchen of the apartments-occupied by
Panciroli. It was caused by a curtain
blowing into the flame of a gasoline
stove.
The inmates became excited, and in-
stead of trying to extinguish the cur-
tain, threw the stove out of the window
on to the porch.
The vapor took fire at once and the
inflammable liquid quickly spread the
flames over the porch and siding. The
fire found its way between the walls
and the siding of the house, to the gar-
ret. where it communicated with the
root
The windows were all open and the
draught caused the fire to burn fiercely,
making an intense heat, which drove
the occupants out of the building.
When the cry of “fire” came there
was a panic, and the families who oc-
cupied the premises, made haste to va-
cate. Several children also added to
the confusion. None of the men folks
were at h0me,which only made matters
worse.
The neighbors were more collected,
and began to remove the household,
furnishings to places of safety.
All of the occupants were Italian
families. The first floor was occupied
by Mr. Panciroli and family, consisting
of a Wife and one child, and Felix
Waltz,wife and two children. Upstairs
Were the apartments of John Ungaro,
who has a wife and two children, and
Cresci Corinto, with a wife and three
children. Corinto and Waltz are hat-
ters, and Ungaro runs a shoe shop at
103 White street.
A large crowd of spectators gathered
and watched the progress of the flames.
An amusing feature was several excit-
ed Italians, who gained entrance to the
building after the fire had been practi-
cally extinguished, and commenced
firing furniture from a second-story
window. '
The loss upon the building will be
upwards of $1,500, as many of the 'walls
Wlll have to be taken off. Quitea little
furniture was also destroyed. ' Mr.
Panciroli is partially insured.
The other tenants had no insurance,
but are damaged from $100 to $200 each
by water and breakage.
There is intense interest in Danbury
hatting circles over the sudden and de-
termined step taken by Edward Barrett
of South NorWalk, president of the
United Hatters of North America, in
declaring Beckerle & Co., of that city,
a union concern, in the face of the vote
taken by the local hatters’ association,
requesting that they be left to settle
their own difficulties with the firm.
The question that seems to present
itself to the Danbury batters is,
whether Mr. Barrett, as president, has
the power to take such action, 01:-
whether he will be upheld by the ofit.
cers and directors of the national asso-
ciation.
This is a move that has never been
made in hatting difficulties before, and
establishes a new precedent.
fore, not only Mr. Barrett, but the sev-
eral hatters’ organizations will un-
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doubtedlf desire to make a. test case of
it.
Mr. Barrett states that he intends to
live entirely up to the spirit indicated
in his decision. He has no intention
of backing down, for he believes that
he is right in taking the stand that he
did, and had full power and authority
for his acts. -
In accordance with the position taken
by him, Mr. Barrett requested the sec-
retaries of the Makers’ and the Finish—
ers’ organizations to issue cards to the
non-union men employed at Beckerle &
Co.’s, for $25 each, and also to furnish
the firm with the union label.
These requests were denied. The
Danbury officers, while desiring to see
the shop unionized, evidently feel that
Mr. Barrett had gone beyond his
powers, believing that their unions
should have settled the differences in
some way. '
Now that the Danbury unions have
refused the label to Beckerle & Co., as
requested by Mr. Barrett, the question
arises, will Mr. Barrett procure the
label from other sources, and also grant
the men national cards. Many believe
that will be the next step.
If so, it is not improbable that the
Danbury unions will take steps to test
Mr. Barrett’s authority. At present
the firm have not received the label,
and the more conservative urge that
matters be left as they are until it can
be seen just what President Barrett in-
tends to do.
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WILTONJW
Miss Cora Middlebrook who is a stu-
dent at the Moody school is home for
a vacation.
The school in North Wilton closed
on Friday for the summer vacation.
Miss Comstock, the popular teacher
made the day a happy one for the chil-
dren by giving them a picnic in the
woods, where ice cream, cake and other
sweet things finished off the fun.
The Selectmen and School Board
met on Tuesday evening, to suggest the
appropriations for the schools for the
coming year. The usual appropriation
of $300 was voted for all the schools
with the exception of Belden Hill,
which has $275; Hurlbutt street, $225;
and Kent $350, thus making the tax
smaller than last year.
A number of people interested in the
Golf club, met at the house of Mrs. J.
M. Betts, on Saturday evening, for the
election of officers. The course is now
being prepared, and will be opened on
the 4th of July, when a match game
will be played between H. S. Ogden
and H. L. Sturges.
Theodore Thayer of New Haven,
spent Sunday with his son in Wilton.
Samuel D. Folsom is enjoying the
week with his regiment at Peekskill.
Mrs. Penfield and daughter, of New
York, are stopping at R. W. Keeler’s.
Mrs. Noel Stanton and Miss Mabel,
of N orwalk, were guests of Miss Helen
Middlebrook last week.
The Reading Circle meets with Mrs.
H. G. Thomson to-morrow afternoon.
Miss Martha Miller has been stop-
ping for a few days at Mrs. Burehard’s.
William Paddock of North Wilton,
is on the sick list.
Miss Elizabeth Raymond of Hurlbutt
street, is entertaining friends from out
of town.
R. H. Fitch is exhibiting some fine
photographs of the Alpha races.
A number of our young people will
attend the Purdy benefit at Norwalk.
Mrs. Schlichting of Darien, spent
Sunday with her son in Wilton.
Mr. Seymour, the aged father of
Mrs. Burchard, who has been suffering
from a shock, is somewhat better.
A parish meeting will be held at St.
Matthew’s rectory on Friday evening,
to take action on the Davenport legacy.
Waldo Banning .of New Jersey, is
stopping with his aunt, Mrs. J. M.
Betts.
Harold Betts of the Stevens Institute,
is enjoying his vacation at his home in
town.
fiEdgar Belden of Stamford, spent
Sunday in Wilton.
Miss Harriet Comstock who was
among the graduates of Vassar, is now
at her home in North Wilton.
The many Wilton friends of Miss
Annie Hall will be glad to learn that
she is enjoying her vacation with her
mother, Mrs. James Finney of Nor-
walk.
Mrs. Mary White with Miss Edith
and Davenport White attended the
commencement exercises at VVheaton
Seminary, Mass. where Miss Winifred
White is one of the graduates.
Edward Gilbert the youngest of Bel-
den Hill’s financiers has been driving
about town disposing of some fine
strawberries.
The Congregational church was filled
to overflowing on Sunday evening to
listen to a temperance lecture from J
H. James of Rockville, Conn. The
lecture was illustrated by a large num-
ber of Stereopticon views which gave
force and interest to the speaker’s well
timed remarks. An outcome of the lee-
ture it is reported will be an effort to
enforce the law and put a stop to the
selling of cider by the glass and small
quantities, which has been going on all
over the town. .
Many of the farmers are haying. D-
B. Ogden being the first to lead off
with the music of his mowing machine.
EAST NORWALK.
Lauritz M. Smith is ill at his home
on Henry street. ‘
Miss Lottie Rose of Cottage avenue,
goes to Darien to-day for a short visit.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Wallace Bates of Cottage avenue, yes-
terday.
The residence of Herbert V. Carr of
Cottage avenue, is receiving a cost of
paint.
Miss Emilie Osborn of Brooklyn, is
visiting Mrs. Charles H. Rider on Cot-
tage avenue.
Mrs. Gardiner of Huntington, L 1.,
is visiting her daugnter Mrs. George
E. Robertson.
Mrs. Milton Elwood of Henry street,
will leave Monday for Orino Maine, to
visit her parents.
E. Everette Gorham returned to
Katonah, N. Y.,yesterday having spent
a week with his parents.
The Advent prayer meeting will be
held to-night at the home of Morris
Saunders on Howard avenue.
Miss Georgie Burdick of New Haven,
is visiting at the house of her uncle L.
H. Burdick of Fort Point street.
Edgar Howell who has been visiting 4
his mother Mrs. B. A. Jackson of Sea
side place has returned to New York.
The regular Tuesday evening class»-
meeting of the East avenue M. E.
church will be led this evening by
James L’Hommedieu.
The Epworth League prayer and
praise meeting of the East avenue M.E.
church last evening led by Rev. F. A.
Scofield pastor of the Norwalk M. E.
church, was both interesting and help-
ful and was largely attended.
The funeral of little Harry Beecher
son of Charles Beecher was held yes-
terday afternoon. The burial was in
the East avenue cemetery. The little
grave was completely covered with
flowers and a photograph of it was
taken by James Worden.
As Capt. Thomas Wright was re-
turning from his work in Saugatuck
yesterday, he was knocked down by a
bicyclist and received a bad injury to
his arm. The name of the wheélman
could not be learned as he immediately
mounted his wheel and rode away.
St. Paul’s Mission Sunday school
held a strawberry festival last Tuesday.
A large number were present and a
neat little sum realized.
Miss Emilie Osborn and Miss Fannie
Rice of Brooklyn, who are visiting
friends here spent yesterday at Roton
Point.
Mrs. E. E. Gorham is getting to be
quite an expert wheel woman. Tues-
day shel wheeled to Green’s Farms
and back. ,
«Advertise in THE GAZETTE.
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The Bell and the Bicycle.
The horse will be in fashion
In the cities and the dells
If a man must ride a bicycle
All tagged around with bells.
Each tall and stately steeple
The deafening sound repels,
For they cannot reach the people
For the bicycles with bells.
When Mary “calls the cattle hom”
Her voice in music swolls,
But she cannot catch the cattle
For the bicycles with bells.
The blue policeman ”scorching”
His mission plainly tells;
Gives warning to his victim
On a. bicycle with bells.
And the country’s in commotion
And peace fur distant dwells,
For they drown the roar of ocean
With the bicycles with bells.
DARIEN.
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W. H. W ilmott, jr., took a party
across to Oyster ' Bay, Sunday, in his
oyster sloop. .
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hindlcy have
returned from a trip to West Point,
Albany and Saratoga.
Eagle Hook and Ladder Co. will keep
open house all day Fourth of July, and
in the evening will entertain the lady
friends of the company. Fireworks
will be a feature.
A picked team from Volunteer Hook
and Ladder Co. defeated a New Canaan
team in a game of ball on the Brady
field, Saturlay afternoon, by a score of
20-4. Another game will be played be-
tween them in Darien on the afternoon
of July 5.
Constable Keeler announces that as
soon as the new State bicycle law goes
into effect he will arrest the first wheel-
man caught riding on the Darien side-
walks. It- is quite doubtful, however,
if any court would decide that Darien
had sidewalks.
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Some one broke into the Center
school, Monday night, and tore open
the teachers’ desks in the various
rooms,in searc of the money collected»
from the children for the Indian famine
fund. It is not believed any was found.
W. E. J. Kirk has returned to New
C'Lnaan to reside. He has filed with
the Alpha club of Norwalk a certificate
that he was the winner of the time
prize at the recent road race. The
document is signed by A. B. Russell
and Samuel Lynes, two of the judges
on that day.
A couple of days ago a dog belonging
to the leader of the brass band, a re-
cent comer from Norwalk, bit a child
of Jones, the man who recently had a
difference with the pastor of the Bap-
tist church in regard to his daughter’s
baptism. Mr. Jones went dog hunting
and shot the dog on the owner’s prem—
ises. Tuesday the two men met and
the owner of the dog proceeded to “do”
the other. He completed the job and
left Jones in disarray, besides injuring
his countenance.
Three Swifi Sprinter;—
Fred Stone, the trainer of the Chica-
go Athletic association, has three
sprinters who, he thinks, will lower
the colors of Wefers and Burke at the
American championships. Rush and
Maybury both have records of 9 4-5 sec-
onds to their credit for the 100 yards
and 2] 4—5 seconds for the 220 yards,
while Potter has defeated Maybury on
the board floor track of the Coliseum in
10 seconds. Bush is said to have run
the quarter in 49 1-5 seconds. In addi-
tion to the Sprinters the Chicago Ath-
letic association will be represented at
the Amateur Athletic union champion-
ship by the great western hurdlers, Rich--
ards and Kreuzlein.
Bicycle Proverbs.
Put a beggar on a wheel and he’ll
ride to the pawnshop.
Have a wheel of thine own before
thou borrowest another’s.
'If falling off a wheel were an art,
there would be many artists.
There is but one good wheel, and ev-
ery rider thinks he owns it.
A man who is in love with his wheel
is no judge of woman‘s beauty.
It is an ill sign to see the tin tack
maker and the tire repairer walking
down the road together.
Beware of the fore part of a cheap
horse, the hind part of. a cheap mule
and all parts of a cheap wheel. -—Lon-
-—F. L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
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