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Vol. I, No. 225.
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Norwalk,} 001111., MondayLEvenlng, November 9, 1891. '
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0 UR JOBBIL‘ G DEPARTMENT.
Mn. HARRY M. GARDNER. JR. of New York,
has charge of the GAzETTE's Engraving. Book
and Jobbing Department. He is an expert
and experienced Job Printer. and no work on
trusted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done.
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Chrvsanthem ums.
Cultivate the beautiful for the need-
ful will protect itself, said a thought-
ful lover of nature. In no one thing
in recent years, has there been devel-
oped so wide ard thoroughly artistic a
taste among the American people as in
the cultivation of the one universal
favorite Fall flower, the Chrysanthe-
mum. The last week’s great exhibit at
the Madison Square Garden, was the
chief sensation of Gotham, and thous-
ands upon thousands of visitors from
far and near, paid these multiform and
multifariouslv tinted blooms, the hom-
age of a visit. Among these gorgeous
blooms some were eighteen inches
across their face from end of one
spike to its opposite. They were shown
in every conceivable shade of colors
and combinations of colors, as well as
in multitudinous shapes and forms.
This was a great. an enormous show,
admitted to be the largest flower ex-
hibition ever witnessed on this conti-
nent. Yet right here in Norwalk, dur-
ing all last week, and to be continued
the present week, we have had a Chrys-
anthemum show at “HANFonD’s FLORAL
HALL,” a Chrysanthemum show which
for richness of colors and beauty, and
variety of forms,has notbeen exceeded
at Ihe great Madison avenue show. In
all except extent and magnitude, the
Norwalk exhibit has been a creditable
rival of the great New York show. In-
deed, one criticism of the latter ex-
hibit, was the tiresome effect such an
enormous diSplay of jumbled up colors
and forms, set with a total disregard to
any harmonious effect-s, had upon the
visitor’s eye. Here at Norwalk, the
flowers are compassed within one glass-
house, and the exquisite combines of
colors and the multitudinous varieties
of forms afe so tastefully arranged that
the brain and the :eye is not wearied,
but a feeling of enchantment possesses
the soul of the beholder. All the
choicer varieties are here to be seen,
and not heaped and tumbled together
in total disregard of good color effects,
nor are the sun-flowers in size, thrust
in front of the smaller and more ex-
quisite forms of fluffy and feathery
flower petals and leaves. The eye at a
glance, sweeps over the line of gay and
harmonious forms and colors and the
"poetry of flowers” charms eye and
sense, with an inexpressible delight.
The varied forms of beauty are
almost as exquisite, as are the innum-
erable and enchanting colors. Here is
' one in the rounded form of the cool,
white snow-ball ; another with touseled
fringes like a “Bagged Sailor,” many
others, in shape and variety of colors,
rivaling the once famed dahlias ; then
came endless vaziations of the “ostrich
plume” propagations, with flowers so
delicatelyI‘feathery and fluffy as to
rival the quills on “Misses’ bonnets,”
and tips touched with the faintest
blush of aurora’s earliest morning rays.
Then came a gorgeous array of blazing
yellow suns and burnished gold, mutat-
ing down to the palest yellow of a dying
moon. Then deepest red grading down
to a dainty pink, as delicate as the
blush on a fair maiden’s cheek, or a
“departing rain-bow’s ray.” But Why
elaborate. There has never been a
floral exhibit in Norwalk, which the
ladies have so universally and enthusi-
astically grasped and pressed to their,
dear hearts; and to b}? appreciated,
these blooms exquisite beyond the
power of words to express, must be
visited. and so let us at once adjourn to
“Handford’s Floral Hall, and feast our
eyes on this most noted and delightful
feature of Norwalk’s autum 11 season.
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’That it pays to advertise in the GA-
ZETTE was again demonstrated Satur-
day. The paper containing the article
in regard to the neglect of the House.-
- tonic Railroad company to furnish fuel '
for the stoves in waiting rooms of the
depot, had hardly gotten onto thd
streets before a full car load of coal
was brought up from VVilSUlJ Point and
dumped at the station.
TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN.
, H. E. Dann and W. H. Lockwood
are in New Jersey to-day.
Manager Adams has christened his
new daughter Ruth Cleveland.
Christian Lassen has purchasad the '
Round Hill Hotel on the turnpike.
Senator Seymour was at church yes-
terday preparatory to'the re—assembling
of the Senate. ,
Mrs. Anderson, of New Milford, is
visiting her nephew,Mr. John P. Tread-
well, and family.
The Bridgeport Farmer’s editorial
rooms were slightly damaged by fire
Saturday afternoon.
Mr. James Walsh, of Chestnut street,
has returned from Boston very much
improved in health.
The police raided the opium smoking
dens in_New York last night and ar—
rested ninety Chinamen.
Mr. John McCammon, of New York,
spent Sunday in town, the guest of
Mrs. Wm. Randle Smith.
The 1e islature meets again to-mor-
row. A journ'ment-until after the qua
warranto case 1s decided is probable.
Governor David B. Hill isgvery prop-
erly and promptly out with his Thanks-
giving proclamation for Thursday, the
26th inst. -
The Chilian government is seeking a
friendly Solution of the‘difliculty with
the United States over the Baltimore
sailors incident.
The bans of marriage between Mr.
Lawrence Callahan and Miss Kate
Burns were published at St. Mary’s
Church yesterday.
Captain Schley and the other officers
of the Baltimore are indignant at the
baseless rumor of the sinking of their
ship in Valparaiso harbor.
The Norwalk Military Institute has
issued a pretty little folder With a full
explanation of the signal flags dis-
played daily from their tower.
The next regular meeting of the Con-
necticut Weekly Press Association will
be held at the Hooker House, Willi-
mantic, Monday, November 16.
Allen Wiley, of Hartford, and Frank
Cowle, of Boston, will shoot a match at
100 targets for $500 at the New Haven
Gun Club Grounds next Thursday.
A panic is feared in financial circles
in Berlin, and to allay the excitement
many of the banks opened their doors
to pay off its depositors all day on Sun-
day.
The Washington express will stop at
Fairfield and Southport Saturday even-
ing, to accommodate those who wish to
attend the Modjeska performance at
Bunnell’s that evening.
The Masons who live at a distance
should improve the opportunity of ob-
taining a copy of the new “History of
Freemasonry.” Send your orders in
at the GAZETTE office. a
Saturday’s edition of the Bridgeport
Farmer was run off on a new Goss web
perfecting press. The Farmer is one
of the best democratic papers in the
state. We congratulate you, neighbor.
Manager S. F. Wilson of female base
ball club-fame, at present under sen-
tence for abduction, has issued an ap-
peal for financial assistance to enable
him to carry his case to a higher court.
A daughter of the late Rev. Dr.
Nathaniel Hewitt of Bridgeport, Mrs.
Sarah E. Bowen, died at her home in
New Haven on Friday, and is to be
buried to-morrow morning at 11.30.
The Moodus reservoir, the property
of the Moodus Water Power Company,
has given out. This caused a shutting
down of all the twine mills along the
stream and several hundred hands have
been thrown out of work.
The lighthouse board gives notice
that on or about December 1, 1891, the
color of the house at'Southwest ledge
light station, New Haven harbor, will
be changed from brown to white. The
pier will remain brown, as at‘present.
Major William McKinley is stopping
wi h his brother in New York for a few
days to rest himself after a long and
victorious campaign in the Buckeye
State. The advocate of protective ta-
riff forecasts republican victory in 1892.
Mrs. Weed of Darien, aged 93 years,
is visiting her daughter Mrs. Albert R.
Scofield, at the Mrs. Charles Mallory
place on West avenue. N otwithstand-
ing her great age she is able to sew and
knit and make various articles of cloth-
mg.
The news of the engagement of Clar-
ence W. Bowen to Miss Roxanna Went-
worth, daughter and heiress of the late
“Long John” Wentworth of Chicago,
has created much interest where Mr.
Bowen is widely known. Mr. Bowen
is the son of the Henry C. Bowen of
the New York Independent, and sum-
mers at Woodstock. .
We desire to call the attention of the
proper authorities to a lamp-post . at
the corner of Union Park and Franklin
avenue. opposite the Ira Cole place.
This lamp-post having fallen _into a
state of desuetude’, it is a constant men-
ace to the lives and limbs of occupants
of carriages turning the corner, and
should be removed at once.
Dwyer’s Band has received three new
instruments and are now prepared to
furnish better music than ever.
The bans of marriage of Miss Mary
Kane and Mr. John Mulvoy were pub-
lished at St. Mary’s church yesterday.
—High grade Tufted Novelties. in
Dress Goods, only a few patterns left
at 490 per yard, to close, at the Nor
walk Boston store.
A. S. Marshall, postmaster at Cos
Cob, died yesterday of heart trouble.
Deceased was an uncle of Clinton See.-
ley of this place.
—Don’t forget the entertainment and
sociable of Pilgrim Council, N o. 43, O.
U. A. M., at their hall, No 10 Water
street, to-night.
Rev. Mr. Watkins had a clergyman
from New York to officiate for him yes-
terday as he was still suffering from a
severe attack of la grippe.
Miss Fanny Lewis, of ‘EBridgeport,
and Mr. Nichols Trulock, of Pine
Bluffs, Ark., were guests of‘ friends on
Lewis street, Saturdays
—Hear the Phonograph at the Nor-
walk Boston store.
At the Congregational prayer meet-
ing, Thursday evening, the topic will
be, “ The Beauty of .Christ1an Old
Age.” The ladies of the church will
read papers with reference to the sub-
ject.
The police were summoned to Stew-
art avenue about 1 o’clock this after-
noon to quell a family disturbance.
When they arrived, as is usually the
case, the combatants had quieted dowu
and no arrests were made.
—Ladies Chamois Gloves only 790
per pair, at the N orwalk Boston store.
Justice Coolidge had the civil suit of
W. H. Terry 8; Co, vs. \Villis Burr be-
fore him this morning: Burr’s body
was arrested on Nov. 2d, for debt. This
mornin judgment was given for the
plainti s and the suit discontinued.
Mrs. Mary J. Keeler, wife of Sylves-
ter Keeler, died at her residence, 44
Lowe street South N orwalk, at an early
hour this morning. Mrs. Keeler was
the sister of Henry M. Hoyt. of Nor-
walk, and Robert M. Hoyt, of South
Norwalk.
The Pioneer Hook and Ladder Com-
pany expect to receive their new uni-
forms this evening. They w111 dedicate
them next Sunday evening by attend—
ing, with the other firemen, the services
at the Baptist church,at which time the
pastor, ev. F. E. Rocbins, will preach
on “ A Model Fireman.”
' —See the new line of fancy Papet-
eries at the N orwalk Boston store.
John F. Mines, valedictorian at Trin-
ity in the class of ’54, died Monday at
the workhouse on Blackwell’s Island,
New York," of alooholism, aged fifty-
six. Mr. Mines was a brilliant writer
and at one time an Episcopal clergy-
man. He was reported at one time as
cured of his love for drink by the
chloride of gold treatment.
There was a large attendance of the
members of the King’s Daughters at
the meeting held at the Congregational
chapel, Saturday afternoon. 1‘: rs. N o-
ble was present and conducted the
meeting for the first time since her re-
cent illness. It is expected that Mrs.
Bottome will addressthe King’s Daugh-
ters, either the latter part of the pres-
ent month, or the first part of next.
~46 inch Lakewood Suiting only 250
per yd., at the Norwalk Boston store.
Saturday afternoon while some boys
were fishing off the dock in the rear of
the Homes, Keeler & Sellock Company’s
store, one of their number fell over-
board, but was rescued by his compan-
ions in short order. The little fellow
was drenched to the skin, but the fish-
ing craze was on him, and spitting out
about a gallon of salt water, he shook
himself and sat down again and re-
sumed his sport. This boy has the kind
of find in him of which presidents are
ma e.
-—Muffs and Furs in great variety, at
the Norwalk Boston store.
The T. G. L. 0. met at the home of
Miss Clara L. Betts On the Church
Green, last Saturday afternoon, and
had a very pleasant meet-ing. An elec-
tlon was held in which Miss Vera Wood
was reelected president, Miss Grace
Adams vice-preardent, Miss Clara Bette
treasurer, and Miss Julia Lockwood
secretary. New badges have been pur-
chased, consisting of Silver rings, on
which the initials of the club are en~
graved. Out of the funds 111 the treas-
ury enough will be taken to furnish a
Christmas-box for the little children of
the Children’s Home. ‘
—-All silk, Hemstitched Handkerchiefs,
with embroidered initial, only 250, at
the N orwalk Boston store.
Two boys named Donnelly and Heal,
aged about 16 years, Were arrested this
morning charged with setting fire to a
dirt cart owned by Willlam Lawlor, on
Hallow’een night. The two boys, to-
gether wrth several others, found Law-
lor’s cart near the foot of Orchard
and sticks set fire to them and .mgthg,
cart up and down the street. Thefire
rather got the best of them, andégé‘ef a-
they ran it down the hill at the foot of
they left it. Both boys gave bonds this
morning for their appearance for trial
at 7 o’clock this eve . mg.
street, and after filling it with"‘leal¥‘_’6§f.
that the entirecart would be consume" , V
the street, and into the river, Where‘
WHAT Miss‘SPINSTER s‘AYs-
That Mr. Henley Jobbins and 7 Miss
Jobbins are‘av1sit1ng at' Mr. George
Hunter’s on llast avenue.
'That rumor has it that Professor
New ell ls teaching fourteen young girls
belonging to.‘St.'Paul’s church a new
. dance,'tu be? performed by them at
their fair in December.
That as an; ordinary mortal. one or
more~degrees§gremoved, WU stand with
fear and trembling corrected, yet with
a grain of comfort left in the thought
that there is drift in the tongue of one
of the cultured members of the W0-
man’s Clnb.
That the discriminating powers of
thechildren of this latter end of the
century arch-Sgtimes remarkable. That
recently ,a miin in
New Haven, well
known as a commuter on the Consoli-
dated road, and his little daughter
Damty were looking out of the window
watching the people go to church. She
had recently been to church and in an-
swer to her father’s inquiry as to what
they did in church, said first they pray-
ed ; What else, was asked; they sang,
was answered-{and what else did they
do ?' “ They paid their fare.”
That the season of fairs is upon us,
and will remain until close upon Lent.
The Japanese Fete is already an as-
sured Success, the value of that opinion
is conjecture based on tolerably good
grounds, and a visit Tuesday evening
to the Japanese Wedding will repay
anyone to see the beautiful. fair Ameri-
can Japanese maidens introduced, not
With the expectation of improving what
exists in J upon, but it will give an idea
of the coming Japanese girl. On Wed-
nesday evenlng Mr. Van Buren has se-
cured the best amateur talent in New
York; up to the present nothing of a
defiuite nature has been given out ; it
is an open secret that the marveilous
performance will be unlike anything
ever before attempted in town.
That it ought not to be necessary to
lay extra stress upon the warning not
to be wasteful of the Borough water, it
is especially to be deplored just now in
the face of a continued drought. Use
the water you really need for comfort
and cleanliness, but stop the waste be-
fore you cripple the supplying source.
That every woman adores love letters,
and here is an extract from one embo-
dying such a high ideal of womanhood
that every girl and woman ought to
paste it among her scrap-book treas-
ures: : ‘ There is no woman like you in
this Wide world. Who else has so much
talent with so little self-conceit; so
much reputation with so little afl‘ecta-
tion ; so much literature with so little
nonsense; so much enterprise with so
little extravagance ; so much tongue
with so little scold ; so much sweetness
With so livttl‘emoftness ‘;' so muchsv'efsu
many things and so little of so many
other things.”
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His Cook Resigned:
_If there is any thing that Charles
Flnch, the Water street hotel-keeper is
fond of, it is sweet-breads. Finch has
a standlng order with his butcher that
whenever he can procure them, to send
them to him. and as ,early and often as
poss1ble. Saturday morning the butch-
er passed Finch’s place and told the
genlal proprietor that he had as nice a
pair of sweet-breads as were ever in
N orwalk, and that when he came that
way agaln 1n the afternoon, he would
brlng them. Finch was highly elated,
and when later in the day the butcher
appeared With a neat package under his
arm, Finch thanked him, and lost no
time in “setting ’em up” for the whole
house. The package was sent. down
stairs to the cook to be prepared for
dinner, and Charley congratulated him-
self on the feast which was to come. In
a.short time the cock was heard run-
ning up stairs, two at a time, and rush-
1ng up to Charleyofl'ered him the pack-
age and hIS resignation with the re-
mark that “when I have to cook such
d_—d thlngs as these, I get out, see I”
Finch looked at the cook and then at
the package and was horrified to find
the contents of the latter were three
dead rats, all of which had been nicely
cleaned, and decorated with pretty blue
ribbons, which were tied around their
necks.
The package was thrown into the
back-yard, an apology offered to the
cook and Flnch sat himself down to
mourn the loss of his anticipated feast.
It is unnecessary to state that Finch
has . changed butchers.
The Cantata of the Holy City will be
sung in the Congregational church by
the Choral Union one week from Fri-
day evenlng, the proceeds of which will
go to help liquidate the church debt.
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Officers of the Royal Ark Indicted.
BOSToN, Nov. 9.—The grand jury of Sn!-
folk county found an indictment against
William H. Laue, supreme president:
Luray C. Powers, supreme secretary, and
"Benson C. Hazelton, supreme treasurer,
all officers of the Royal Ark. The indict-
ment charges the officers with making
false returns to the insurance commie
sioners.
Death Through Carelessness.
OTTAWA, 1115., Nov. 9.-—-Through the
negligence of an employe in leaving a
switch open afreight train on the Chicago,
Burlington and _Quincy railroad was
wrecked, and the engine and thirteen cars
totally demolished. Engineer. McIlvain,
of Aurora. was instantly killed, and the
fireman and a. brakeman were fatally in-
jured.
Forest Fires in New York.
NYACK, N. Y., Nov. 9.—Forest fires or
raging in many parts of Rockland an
Wright counties. Much damage is threat
ened if they are not soon subdued.
Swamps and streams are dried up in the
western part of the above counties, thus
affording a clear sweep for theLflames.
Young Women’s Assoclht'loifiifileotlon.
ALTOONA, Pa,,No.v. 9.——;Qver’ ‘ajhundred
delegates were present atijtlie’sessions ol
the State Young Women’s association.
The following officers were elected for the
coming year: President, Mrs. H. M. Boies:
secretary, Miss Florence Colvin: treasurer,
Miss Maryflackett, all of Scranton.
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ONE FLAG ALONE.
Commanderfl-Vi’ri-itliief Pal mer’s
Ringing order.
Gen. Palmer, Commander-in Chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic, has
just made public the following order :
' ALBANY. Nov. 4, 1891.
“The attention of the commander-in-
chief has been called to the fact that
comrades wearing the badge and uni-
form of the G. A. R. participated in a
recent demonstration where the con-
federate flag was carried and displayed.
For four long years you braved all the
per1ls and vicissitudes of war to wipe
out all that flag represented. When
your great work was accomplished the
grand union armies had become the
most powerful and effective the world
had ever seen. They melted away like
snow on the hill-tops under the beams
of a noon-day sun. You resumed the
peaceful vocations of civil life and the
nation resumed once more its career of
unparalleled progress, prosperity and
happiness. There never was in the,his-
tory of any civilized warfare such mag.
nanimity evinced toward a foe as the
terms of the surrender of Lee’s army
at Appomattox. .
“ We have learned to admire the gel-
lantry of the men we have vanquished
as only men could admire them who had
tested their endurance and valor upon
many battle-fields. When they laid
down their arms we sought peace: we
reached out the right hand of fellow-
ship to all who would accept it. on the
broad grounds of American ciuzenship
and unconditional loyalty.
To-day the same flag which floats
over and protects the conquerors pro-
tects equally as well the conquered.
We admire the spirit which prompts
the people of‘ the South to commemo-
rate the gallantry of the men who
sacrificed their lives in the lost cause.
but that civil conflict settled one great
question. The battle for the Union
was right, the dociri .le of secession was
wrong, and the stars and stripes, the
emblem of liberty, equal rights, jus-
tice and law is the only flag which the
loyal people of this great nation respect
and honor. We saved our children
the contest that they would have been
compelled to encounter, we having
given them a heritage of peace and
prosperity instead of an enormous and
expensive litigation to be settled by a
jury of soldiers, and to-day every
American citizen is in the full enjoy-
ment of the fruits of our great labors;
“We can’t afford to lose sight of the
valor that achieved victory for the
right. We can never forget what the
contest cost us in blood and treasure.
[We must not forget that loyalty to
country is not a mere sentiment,;but
that it requires a devotion to prinmple,
and that principle means that the flag
which every Union soldier stood ready
to defend with his life must now be sa-
luted with honor. One of the great prin—
ciples of our organization is to teach
the rising generatlon loyalty to coun-
try and fidelity to duty. The Union
soldiers have repeatedly said to the
soldiers of the South: _‘We have no
desire to arouse sectional animosities
or passions engendered by the war.
Give us loyalty and in return we will
give you fraternity.’ You have dem-
onstrated your fraternity on numerous
occasions; but when comrades joined in
the recent encomiumsin honor or meme
cry of a patriotic journalist and phl-
lanthropist, they found their fraternity
confronted with‘the emblem of treason,
which is an evidence to you that there
still lurks in the hearts of a few 9. de-
sire, by the display of that flag, to fire
the hearts of the young generation of
the South to rebellion.
“A comrade wearing the badge or
uniform of the order, participating in
any demonstration where the rebel flag
is displayed violates his obligationo‘To
maintain true allegiance to the United
States of America, to honor its const1~
tution and to encourage universal 11b-
erty and justice to all mankind.’
“While the commander-'in-chief has
neither the right nor disposition to 1n-
terfere with the individual rights or
privileges of members of the order, he
has assumed an obligation to protect it
against any and all acts that will bring
reproach upon its good name. Do you
propose to surrender what you fought
for, and what your comrades, who sleep
in heroic graves, died for? As the
stars are fixed in the skies, so your
patriotism is fixed and immovable to
preserve the memories and fruits of
that great struggle; If this grand army
of loyal citizens serves no other pur-
pose, it will keep fresh in the hearts of
the rising generation that love of coun-
try, the everence for the Stars and
Stripes, the constitution and the laws
which, in the future, as they have been
in the past, must be the anchors which
hold us firmly to a solid, permanent
and prosperous national existence:
“With these words of admonition, I
have sufficient confidence in your honor
and fidelity to the principles of the
order to feel that there will be no fur-
ther participation in any demonstration
or parade where the emblem of treason
is carried or displayed. Let the cause
which triumphed in the war be main-
tained in the completeness of _1ts v10-
tory and the fullness of its significance.
“(Signed) JOHN PALMER,
Commander-in-Chlef.” -
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To the City, Greeting.
With all the smiling grace of Ma-
cawber, and hats atip, our Water Com-
missioners were compelled again to-day
to ask the courteous and obliging
Water Commissioners of South Nor-
walk, to let.us open the connecting
valves and so get another supply of
their “whortleberry water,”as another
water famine is upon us. Personal ab-
lution is one of the hereditary habits
here atthe Borough, and it is some
consolation to know that if all our
people will not "drink of it,” they are
glad to “lave in it, and bathe in it,”
whenever the can, and are duly grate-
ful to South orwalk --_for its gracious
kindness in coming to our assistance
in this our hour of dire destitution and
necessity.
Colonel White’s Condition.
Colonel George M. White, assistant
adj utant general, who for the past few
weeks has been critically ill, is said to
be growmg weaker and gradually fail—
ing, so that his friends are fearful that
he Will not, recover.
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Brought Here For Burial.
A telegram from the Poultney, Vt.
undertaker states that the body of
Charles Jones left there at 9.20 this
morning. The interment, which will
probably .be to-morrow, will take place
at Riverside Cemetery.
Destroyed by Fire.
The old passenger shed at the side of
the east-bound track at Larchmont
caught fire Saturday because of a de-
fective flue, and the building, together
With 100 feet 0f the long shed adjoining,
was consumed. The loss is not more
than $300. When the new stone station
was built atLarchmont, the old wooden
structure was moved over to the east-
bbundslde and served for the accom
modation of persons taking east-bound
trams. The new building was not dam-
aged by the fire. The heat was intense
and trains were taken by the burning
bmlding at full speed.
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—Sperry & Barnes’ Hams 12%
at People’s Market. ' 2
cents
22tf
A'Prlze Fighter Bound Over.
Charles Smith, who was recently ar-
rested for participating in a prize fight
with William Downs at Meadows Ends,
was tried on Saturday by Justice North,
who bound the accused over to the
January term of the superior court un-
der $1,000 bonds. Smith could not se-
cure a bondsman and was taken to jail.
The cases against the five parties ac-
cused of abetting the fight were con-
tinued until next Saturday. Smith is
the man who punished Downs so se-
verely in the fight that he could hardly
crawl. He managed to get down to
Stratford, where he was run over and
killed by the cars.
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—Great Bargains in MILLINERY. All
goods at two-thirds their value, at the,
Boston store for the next ten days.
215-3W
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“Whistle and I’ll Come to Ye,” etc.
In response to the request made by
the Court of Bur esses to Vice Presi—
dent and General Tanager Stephenson
of the Housatonic Railroad that the
blowing of locomotive whistles all
night, when passing through N orwalk,
mi ht be discontinued, that gentleman
cal s attention to the fact that the law
requires them to whistle at every grade
crossing and he has no power to dis-
continue the practice without permis-
sion from the Railroad 'COmmissioners;
but that he has called the attention of
Superintendent Paine to the (matter,
with the request that in so far as it can
be, without violation of law, he cause
the practice to be discontinued.
——Brook’s Spool Cotton 220 per doz.,
at the Norwalk Boston store.
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Unsuccessful Burglars.
About3 o’clock Saturday morning,
Mrs. George S. Grumman, who, to-
gether with her husband live at No. 1
North avenue, was awakened by a
noise which sounded as if someone was
trying to open the shutters of the side
windows. She awakened her husband.
who got up, and after finding his re-
volver, went to look for the burglar.
He heard the latter try all the window
shutters on the east side of the house,
and then walk around to the frent
stoop and up the steps. Mr. Grumman
went through into the parlor, intend-
ingto meet the thief should he attempt
to enter by the front door or window.
but just as the burglars got to the top
step of the stoop, Mr. Grumman fell
headlong over a chair, and the noise
that followed was heard by the thief.
who ran down off the stoop and out of
the yard. Mr. Grumman watched some
little while for the burglar to return
but nothing more was heard of him;
An examination showed that nothing
around the premises had been removed.
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A Cold Bath.
On Sunday John Cox and Barney
McLau hlin, two lovers of the sad sea
waves. Tired a boat at J enmngs’ and
started down the harbor to spend the
day among the islands. The never—
failing bottle of bait accompanied them
with which to drive dull care away.
When off Cockeno’s rocky shore. the
boat, in some unaccountable manner
upset, precipitating our two frlends
into the icy waves. With mouth and
eyes filled with the salt water Barney
sputtered “Hould phast to that bate
bottle ye spalpeen.” “Faith and phats
biting yez, don’t ye see that .I have it
in me phist,” answered John. “All
roight” says Barney as he took afresh
hold of the upturned boat and splt out
the salt water he had imbibed by mis-
take. For eight mortal hours our two
friends clung to that upturned boat be-
fore the tide carried it near enough to
the shore for them to touch bottom.
As their feet struck terra firma they
both wanted the first chance at the
bait, but it was finally handed to
Barney because it was he who first sug-
gested saving the precious fluid. With
a shaking hand he elevated the bait
and proceeded to absorb its contents,
butbefore he could consume it all John
had grabbed it away and put the bal—
ance where it would do the. most good.
When this feast was finished, they
started off to explore the island and see
what could be found to satisfy the hun-
ger that was gnawing at their Vitals.
buddenlv they came upon a flock of
wild ducks, and with an unerring aim
Barney threw the empty bait bottle.
which struck and killed one of the
ducks. Quickly wading out Barney
securedhis prize and brought it ashore,
where it was soon prepared and cooked.
After a hearty game dinner the two re-
entered their boat and were soon safe
and sound at home, but not before
they had both made a solemn pledge to
one another that they would never
breathe of their accident. But m‘urder
will out, and here is,the story.
morning, when a force of plumbers,
- HE JUMONVEME
The Water Commissioners Atte’mp,
to Place a Meter in the Hour:
Office and are Snubbed. ..
Maples Says No Meter In His.-*3
In the recent forced association _of..
our Borough Water Commissioners f
with the City Water Commissioners;
they got a new “bug” in their heads;
anent the introduction of water meters,“
here at the Borough. As every water .'
meter thus far invented has been
proven over and over, to be a for
worse liar than a gas -meter, wherever
they have been introduced, they have
been thrown out and their use discou.
tinued as utterly unreliable and a
waste of the public money. . We pre-
sume it was on some such grounds as'
1lhese that Mr. B. W. Maples, this
came to his ofiiceito attach a meter to,
his water motor, resolutely refused to
let the innocent agent of our “fearfully
and wonderfully made” Water Com-
missioners, enter upon his premises to’ _ i.
attach the curious little device—which
looks like a combined sausage stufi'er
and dynamite cartridge.
is reported assaying that he had re-
ceived no proper notification from any "
competent source and no “official” ac-
tion to that end had been taken either
by the Borough. or the Water Commis-
sioners themselves, and he would none _
of it, etc.
Mr. Maples
Of course, the next proper thing to‘
do was to carry the curious device ”
down in the rear 'of the bank and
dump it into the GAZETTE press-room.
As soon as the GAZETTE staff were
made aware of this first act of serious:
interest on the part of the Water Com-
missioners, as to whether we were sup-
plied with water or not, all werekafl'ected
almost to tears. Mr. Bette, foreman
of the press-room, was duly instructed
to aid, abet and in every way assist the
Water Commissioner or Commission-
ers’ agent in attaching to our motor
his patent horse-doctor syringe. What-
ever' water there is to measure, we
shall be glad to know its amount. ‘ We
only know that while, extraordinary
as the! greatest possible efforts have . « -—
been made, to supply the Hour with
motive power, we have been forced to
put in a steam engine and then fre- 9 '_ .
quently left without water enough to . '
fill our boiler, and when these “fear-
fully and wonderfully made” Water,
Commissioners ascertain how much
water we do use,we expect to see them, _
like honest men, make some effort to . ,.
refund the large amount of money they
have extorted from us for water they
well know has not been Supplied.
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Amusements.
Says the Westchester (Pa.) Republil
can : Arlington’s Minstrels gave a first-
class show at Horticultural Hall, this
borough, last evening to a good sized
audience. The stage setting eclipsed
anything ever before presented in this
,: .f Kill” ‘1.
s4
borough, while the singing was par ex- 5’9,
cellence and the artists were encored.
The end men were witty and their
jokes created considerable laughter?
Each performer went through his part
much to the satisfaction of the audi-
ence. The entertainment closed with
“Bufi’alo Bill’s” experience with the ' ~
Indians in the far West, which was
really side-splitting. ‘
Says the Evening World: Niobe is
simply a. treat, a comedy to gush about,
and to festoon with the very best. and
purest kind of laughter. *, * * It
is the kind of comedy that must exert
a beneficial effect upon the community. ,
I guarantee that nobody can see it ’
wihout laughter. * *‘ * . There is
no single vestige of fault about Niobe; '
* * * The mirth springs from the
most irresistibly funny situations, and
it springs naturally with the grace of a .
Carmencita. * * * Should fill the
house for an entire season. * * *
Niobe is simply a fountain of risibility
from beginning to end. * * As I
left the Bijou last nightI promised my-i“ ,
self one thing : to see Niobe again.
(Signed) ALAN DALE. »
Phcnnix Engine Company will give a .
grand musicals at their quarters, Wed-
nesday euening, to celebrate the win.
ning of the piano in the recent contest.
Musicians from Wilton and other
places will be present.
“.0.
C. 13.. Coolidge returned Saturday ’
from his trip to New York state,
whither he went to try and induce a
manufacturing concern, who are about ‘
to leave the town at which they are
now situated, to locate in Norwalk.
"Doc.” met with a good deal of en- _
couragement, and the proprietor of
the concern will be in town in a week.—
or two, to examine the old Simonds."
Nl’f’ Co. foundry, with a view to locat-' '
ing ere. _‘
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Y. M. C. A. NOTES.
As this is the week of pm or for
young men special services will a hold»;
at the rooms from 9 to 10 o’clock each
evening, led by the pastors of the
several churches. -
The classes in German and penma'nl
ship will open this evening, and all per.-
sons WlShlng to join should ' be presen
promptly at 8 o’clock. - - ,
n.
The new general secretary, Mr. John ~
G. Withrow, wlll_ be here this evening.
and all. are Invitedto be presentto
greet him. ' '
Norwalk Chronicler