' ooregordo priced and quality We meet emphatically state, without fear of contradiction. that no
" to South Norwalk. and few in New York compete with on. Our domestic goods come direct from
, our foreign goods we import direct. With four atom to buy for and cash to buy with we are
[putting to UNDER BUY and UNDER SELL. Your own intelligence will define this clearly; still
W you to shop and get price: elsewhere, then come and be convinced by ocular proof.
- - - - SUMMER GOODS.
“Oi”, every make.
Ml” Mt, the “Quicknteztl'I’ only
I oretors. white mountain and Cooper & McKee.
Inc 0|!le I”, 23 different styles.
Amateur and proicssioual.
eInInooks newest. best cheapest
Porch Somalis, outside bamboo.
CIOIIII freezers. the “Hero," triple uction.
town lowers, the “King" only.
Screen Doors evei y style and quality.
Hitting, largest variety in the city
Gardenfloso,stnctlv guarantccd,10c it
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Everything in our house is warranted. delivered free and returnable for cash.
Open evenings until 8:30, Saturdays, 10:30 p. III. I ~
5. STURTEVANT,
GREATEST BARGAIN 1......
Under
NORTH MAIN AND ANN
STREETS.
leuth Norwalk. Connecticut
Minute]
’ Inesuml
ISIOO
Full
Guarantee
and
OI"!
Easy
Terms.
.,.“I.V." "
v MIRA-(Illa; .I
Then there is my Harness Department, which is well stocked with fresh goods.
‘ Harnesses, Robes, Blankets and Whips.
Repairing a Specialty Also as line aline of Carriages and Wagons as to be found any-
where III the state to select from, and prices right. The place 15
GHT’S FACTORY AND REPOSITORV.
Franklin and Madison Sts.
SI IUTH NURWALK - CONN El (‘TI(JUT.
For lngrain,
Ta stry,
Brussels or
Moquette
Lu ..c...- .I
ileum-u I'm um.
CARPETS!
()il Cloths, Linolenms and Mnttiugs, go to
A. DiCkerrnan 8: Son,
on Washington Street, South Norwalk, Connecticut.
The Evening Sentinel
PRINTING HOUSE!
Thoroughlyl-unipp'ed for Ellery Kind °f P'lnting !
BEST QUALITY OF WORK AT THE LOWEST PRICES.
IwH‘F‘. .
l‘l‘O BOW TO EUROPE
OMINOI SCHEME 0' AN ADVEN-
TUROUS NEW YORK PILOT.
Preparation l‘or o Cruleo Aeron-
tho Atlantic II 0 Bow Boot Only
Eighteen root Lou. By Capt-ll
(loom Herbo.
Preporoliom are now under wny for
the most during attempt that has or or
been made toeronn the Atlantic in an
open host. George Harbo. New York
pilot, Bohemian and seamen fromhis
earliest youth promises to row from
New York to England. uning an ordin
nry rowbotlt. built after plum designed
by himself. and intended to chow the
lIan-oveIIIontII which he cluime mny be
made l‘l lifeboata now in use.
No nailing will be done upon this ex»
trnordinary trip. He will pull out into
the Atlantic with II companion about
the middle of June and from that on
they will IiInply row to Europe 0
The two men will take turns in row
ing the boat and llerbo ostimntoa that
an average of four knots an hour, tiny
and night, can he ltlillll‘ In this our.
According to this they will Iunko the
passage in from forty to forty- live
days.
It must not be supposed that this man
when he proposes to row iICI'OIH the At
lantlc and talks giibly about the pro
ject "is talking through hie but“ about
smoothing he knows nothing llleIlll ()n
the contrary. tho propnrutionn be In uou
making in the bout being built for him
by Seaman &('o. of llmnc hport. show
that he looks forward to encounter
ing some extremely rough weather on
this trip.
The boat has been built with a stout
piece of oak running ulongthe bottom
and separated from tho koI-l.
cooly unyn this in for the two III-union to
when the bout is upset and when thr-
her.
thin,
c.0nrne '
The boat Wllll h In being built for him
in eighteen feet long II Itho the foot
beam. She is clinker, built of cednr
water.
She has the general nppcnrnnce of a
double ended non skiff. Them in on air
tight compartment in either end of the
boat some two nty inches «loop and three
feet nixi llClltN long. Thoso tIIolnuks
thoy are intuit. .
A cunv us coIcr under with II the men
may sleep, will button mm the forward
end of the boat. The mon will carry
extra ours and II lnrgo pnir of nweepx,
using the letter when they work to-
gether.
These IIlththo instruments cooking
utensils. and other not t‘riilili‘“ II Ill takol
up much of the .-pnre room.
vinionn are to run int mostly of l unncd
goods nnd onttucnl. The lnttcr Will be
ospocinlly useful. no sea water may be
used in boiling it.
The cnnncd goodn will be selected so
an to resist the great heat of II calm
IIIid-suunnor day on the ocean. Two
spirit compnrsos' will be fixed in thobot-
tom of the bout.
Changes of clothing for the men will
lwtnkcn inn wnb-r tight cusp. Thoir
underwear is to be lined with silk no its
to avoid ('hnlliug.
llnrbo is 3'.) years of age. and has
spent hislifu upon the III-II. He thinks
no It Scnbright fisherman he bus Inct as
rough wcnthcr us is to be encountered
on the Atlantic.
lIiIl Nye on TTH‘ III-III l-anllnh Joke.
Your.u utter llrct Ilnrio‘n Truthful
Jnmos poem won written, Edgar W.
Nye commenced signing his articles
“Bill Nye." Mr. Nye always considered
the bout joke ever perpetrated by on
English newspaper was when the Lon
don News came out with It serioug odi-
toriul suying that "Bill Nye" way It real
character. Then Mr. Nye got out his
or mpboik and re Id this serious editorial
from the London nous:
"III or celebrity were IIliIiIIod unex-
poitcdly. moot us-utrodly it was that
thrust upon Bill Nye by Truiht'ul .lIunes.
It is just possible. however. that the in—
IIuIIII-rnblo readers of Mr. Bret Harto‘n
“Heathen Chiuec" may have imngined
Bill Nye and Alt Sin to be purely my-
thical personugcs. So for as the former
is concerned. any such conclusion now
appears to have been enormous. Bill
Nye in no moron phantom than any
other journalist. although the name of
the organ which he runs" snvors more
of fiction that of fact.
A Dog Mall 1' nrrler.
Hois afnithful. cautious officer, the
hero of the Enst Sullivnn, (Mo) dog
story. Don. the dog ponttnztp. has been
taught to carry the mail daily across
the field to the home of G. E. Simpson,
II distance of three-quarters of It mile,
where he makes known the arrival of
the mail by barking at mother, and,
though not It Government employe, ex-
acts his pay in the form of something
to eat, and will bnrk till his demand is
granted. One day last Week he carried
the mail III usual, but. on arriving at
tho-house. could . not guin admittance,
as Mr. and Mrs. :Shnpson were away,
and as it was about noon, he was anx-
ious to deliver the bundle of papers to
get his commission.
Asthe only person about the place
was a young man hauling wood (A
stranger to the dog), he would not give
up the mail, but with a crestfallen
countenamtu brought it back to his Inas-
ter. 'lhere are emptier heads than
Don I). --BIII Harbor Record.
"You naughty boy."II exclaimed the
mother of one of II group of noisy ju-
veniles. ' What are you doing!"
”Playing."
"But I heard you calling mes.”
"Yee'm. We're playing we're the
liarbo .
son in too rough for them to righti
Euch Innn in very rough wcnlhcr is to .
ho hushed at the end of a long line. ticd ,
about bin waist. which will hold him to .
the boat when he is swept overboard, '
Hurbo expects Int u mutter of l
with oak timbers and weighs 200 pounds, ;
drawing when light but three inches of ,I
will nm e the boat unsinknble when
The pro- l
Mitt" c DOWEN
Not-bio lutidente in the Inn; of the In
(lop-usable his Owner:
Henry (J. Bowen. the founder our
Help owner of the Independent nud our
of the noted figures in the famous Boo
chor- Tilton scandal. died not long ago»
at hie upecioui 01 runs house in Wil
low and (‘lnr'k ntroe oer. Brooklyn which
lItttI long been one of the landmarks on
Brooklyn Heighln.
Mr. Bowen. who was born in Wood
stock Comp. in ltilil went to Non
York when II young man and engaged
himself to Arthur Tnppnn &(‘u. us It
clerk. After live yearn ho went in bus
meant for hilnwll but when tho wnt
broke out his firm was t'UtllpollNl to
suspend. llo nfterIInrdI, boweVer.
paid his creditors in full
lu l8~lti Mr. Bowen. in conjumtion
with Simeon B. Chlttcndvn, Seth l3
llunt und Johmtou Hunt. catnbllslu-d
tholndoponlont on It weeklI ngricult
urnl pupcr and un nnti- -h‘lll\l‘iy otgnu
l lwnul'c years Mr. Boucn bought out
his nosociiiton. and over after r 'lllilllll‘ll
the solo owner of tho pnpor. Thu font
.miglnalcdilonof the palm WI‘l'I‘ Dr.
~Loonnrd Bacon Dr. Jonopt i‘. Thump
non DI. R. ii. mom and Dr. Joshua
Levitt. ()thcr notwl lllt'll IIlm III-II
l engngnd in the In: Inngotucnt of tho pII
perwero Henry \Vurd Bc-IIIII Theo
doro l‘ilton and lidwnrd Eggluston.
l A.“ Bowen hnd ulwnyn been It con
spit-noun liguto in tho ('ougrcgntionnl
denomination. and IIIIII ono of the foun
dcrn of tho BIooklyuTnbernnclonml the
C hurch of tho Pilgrims and iymoutb
. ( ‘hurc'h In Brooklyn. llo II: N one of tin
first to nuggmt the culling of Mann
“and Beecher to PlImouth Church.
and Mr Beer her mndc hin homo III Mr.
Bow'cns family foI some time after hi~
ntrlInl in Brooklyn Mr. Touch rc
mnincdono of tho plilill‘i in Plymouth
. ('lIurch until the grant ’l‘ilton scandal.
when his long fricuddtip with Mr. lieu
; chcr wuu suddenly brokcunnd his church
nasoeintiou severed.
l
l
l
l
l It was charged by MI. Beec'here
. Tlll'llllti that “1. Bowen II us the toad In-
' stignlor of the ventilation of tho scuu
Idul in tho \Voodhull publir Mimi and
thnt he nus tho \Tl‘plllelnplwlm iu the
alleged conqiirncy to ruin the pastor.
During the prolonged trial Mr. Bowen
took sides against Mr. Beecher. and was
deposed from hi~I Incinlwrship in I’lym
outlI Church. I’ltilllWllyfi professed to
have evidence of Mr. Boccher'n guilt.
but refused to disclose it, for reasons
which the church did not rcgnrd as
sotisfnctory.
Mr. lloIvou‘s homo contains many ov
idI-ucos of his eccentric turn of mind.
The ceiling of tho Ivido in” is frcncocd
with n rcprosontution of II congress of
birds; in tho library the faces of hie:
wife and daughter look down. IIud on
the ceiling of another room arc the
fncon of his fourteen gruudchildrcn.
In an upper room representations of his
own face and those of seven sons are
cIrvod on the furniture.
Mr. Bowen was an ardent Republi-
cnn. but the only public oilico he ever
hold was that of Collector of Internal
Ilteveuuo for the Third New York Dis-
trict. at the close of tho war. He bud a
'iiuo country home at Woodstock, Conn.
and his annual Fourth of July celebra-
tion there had been a. noted feature of
each national holiday for Itwcnly years.
He never failed to secure the presence
of sumo of the big men of the country,
and Presidents, Cabinet. otficors, dis-
tinguished alicueruln and statesmen.
nciontisis and literary men. have been
his guests. The celebrations wero hold
in II spin-ions grove on the shore of Lake
Wob'nnquoscti, und alwnys drew an im-
mense crowd from miles around. I Mr.
Bowen took a deep interest in those col-
ebrntion-I. and had already begun prep-
arations for the next one
HENRY C. BOW RN.
Mary Antlernon Nuvnrron Athlee to
Young Anplrnntn
Now that Mnry Anderson Navarro in
bidding tho aspirants after histriouic
honors to avoid the stage. it is inter-
esting to recall the advice she received
Miss (.‘ushmnn, whilo admitting the
girl‘s talent. had advised her to shun
the dangers and discomforts of the stage
and live a quiet lady-like life. and that
Miss Anderson had followed the advice.
What would she be now? Not Mrs.
Antonio de Navarro. It woman of for-
tune and natured position, with every
instinct of II fine nature satisfied by
the possession of happiness and the
memory of honor; but, in all probabil-
ity. the wife of some. commonplace
member of the commonplace society
from which she rose. her intellectual
nature unsatisfied. her heart eaten out
by unfulfilled desires
A Great Cathedral.
Canterbury Cathedral is the largest
one in England. Its extreme length is
54-": feet. and that of St. Paul's. London,
512 feet. Salisbury has the highest spire
in England. its altitude being 404 feet.
Wallace—Do you think electricity
will be much In use in the next wart
‘ Ferry—In the next wort Why, the
Spaniard! are winning most of their
homes With it right now-Cincinnati
belief—Washingtonian
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W.
GIVES WHAT SHE WOULDN’T TAKE. .
fronI,ChIIr1ottc Cushmun. Suppose that'
onrs . House Block.
lln Suit soon is lion.
. Don' Ape! all your cult buying
much longer: be in the swim. be up-
to-date, you‘re going to lune one, buy
earl) Ill/l0” you can Ina/re your telec-
fion flour a new full line.
We have only new fabric for
18963-11911! bomespun in neat bmnn
mixtures,
liar/r fancy care/melee,
Scale/I chariots m hdnr‘rame plaide,
ore/plaids, checks, mixtures, womfeds
w surges, 88.50. :10, :12, 373.50,
3/5, 818 and Mons/line, regulars or
slants, only slrapo man can find a
suit molly-fo-puf-on.
ialhiiggan Underwear, 29c.
Underwear ibaf we bong/It in
large quantities, bought it under price
and we give you the benelifof our pun-
cltase. [nether lot in Egyptian ail/r]
fibre, 48c.
liegligee ihirls, 48c, 89c, 97G
Fast bloc/r Bicycle Stockings, 25
and 500.
You always have the privilege of
exchanging or your money back if you
are not satisfied will; your purchase.
MEIGS‘IBIQ
Open Monday. Bobby and Sa/urday Evenings.
Bridgeport Conn.
OLD AND RELIABLE
Daily Direct Freight Line
New York,$outh Norwalk and ,
Norwalk.
\
THE PROPELLERS.
City of Norwalk, Eagle and VulCan,
'Will leave Pier 23, E. R., Beckman Street, New York, at
5_ p. m. Leave Norwalk, 5 p. In; South Norwalk 6 p. m.
Freight Received from 7 a. m., to 5. p. In. Upon Appli.
cation to agents the City of Norwalk, Eagle and Vulcan
Will be sent for special lots of freight anywhere in New
York or its vicinity.
All persons are forbid trusting any of the employee
of this boats of- theline on account of the owuers 'I’em'l%
A Dainty Gift.
After all said and done, a fine. well made,
stylish, well-fitting pair of shoes is an accepi -
,nble P R E S E N T as anything y't‘l
can think of. If there is nuy question as
i to where the verybcst of its kind can be pur-
chased, it’s easily answered—III
H.s. BROWN’S
i so wesnmormt STREET. _
ISOqth Norwalk,
Conn.
PERHAPS YOU DON’,T
But if you should want any
‘Diamorids, Watches, Jewelry or
Silverware l
Or your Watches, Clocks and jewelry Repaired and Cleaned, call or
send at once to
A w. AUSTIN,
INORWALK. OT.
illI
Norwalk Chronicler