. i=1? , ’ Norwalk, 001111., Wednesday Etching, February 19, l896. . r 5. 3 ‘*‘::»,' -._-.; 't '-:“-.I-v 5': ;.'.--'§T* ' 1~ .I‘.‘ 51",,- u . .' ' .. ’ ‘- I . .1 : l , _ . . _ , .‘ THE ONLY EIGHT-PAGE ONE-CENT DAILY IN'THE WORWALKS. Price One Cent. Vol; VI. Whole No. 1302 NATIONAL CAPITAL—.- Senator Hawley Makes a Per- tinent inquiry of Mr. Gorman. Senator Lodge Reports His Immigration Restriction Bill. GazETTE's BUREAU. 709 EAST CAPITOL STREET ~ WASHINGTON. FEB. 18. i The Senate indulged itself to-day in a rough and tumble session. in which personalities were freely indulged and sharp parliamentary exchanges were constant. Mr. Hill had, his first en- counter with Tillman, the Senator from South Carolina. Mr. Hill also had a tilt with Senator Stewart, who broke ‘ into Hill’s speech in order to charge the President and Secretary Carlisle with irregularity in the bond issue. The Pacifimailroad question precipi- tated another warm personal exchange between Allen, the Nebraska Populist, Governor Gear and Mr. Wolcott. o o 0 Just as the session was about to close with the passage of the Pension Ap- propriation bill, German took a parting shot at that most meritorious of meas- ures. He declared that it “hung like a pull ” over the Treasury, swelling the enormous aggregate of government ex- penses, which exceeded the Govern- ment income. “ Why don’t you let us pass a revenue bill, then? ” was the pertinent inquiry of Senator Hawley. “ Ah,” responded the Wily German, “ the other side of the chamber has charge of that revenue measure.” "Yes,” added Mr. Hawley, “ and the other side of the chamber fails to re- ceive the assistance of a single Demo- cratic vote in supplying the revenues which the Senator says are lacking.” o o 0 Senator Lodge, chairman of the Com- mittee on Immigration, to-day reported a bill for‘the restriction of immagration. It provides for the exclusion of all per- sons who are so ignorant as to be unable to read or writeaany language. 0 o 0 Another national holiday is now pro- posed. Senator Hoar yesterday pre- sented a petition of some one who want- ed June 24, the anniversary of Cabot’s first sighting the North American con- tinent, to be made a national holiday. 0 o 0 Robert Small, of South Carolina, who was collector of the port of George- town during the Harrison administra- tion, was at the Capitol yesterday. Mr. Small is a representative negro in his State. 0 o o The fifth annual congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution began in the Church of Our Father this morning. There was a large attendance from nearly every state in the union. Mrs. John W. Foster of Washington, as president-general, presided. The prin- cipal feature of to-day’s session was the organization of the congress. At the afternoon session reports of officers and committees “are read. The evening session was in the nature of a musicals, in charge of the hymn com- mittee. The program included songs and hymns offered for competition. 0 o o ' Mrs. John R. McLean gave a recep- tion to-night to the president-general, , Mrs. John W. Forter, at the Arlington Hotel, which was largely attended. A Good Suggestion.- It has been suggested,and the sugges- tion seems an excellent one in view of the ruling by the commissioners in. ref- erence to state financial aid in the mat- ter of laying telford roads in cities, and as the vote to lay such road on the turn- pike within the city limits passed at a recent town meeting cannot become operative, that another vote be passed to place in repair a certain section of Westport avenue and outside of the city limits. The subject will probably be broached at the town meeting called or Monday next. He Knows. Capt. Ike has long been spoken of as a man with a backbone, and with plenty of sand.-—Hour. . This is good authority, as Capt. Ike once threatened to thrash the Hour man if he did, not stop his abuse, but it is safe to say that Capt. Ike has no sugar, and will not hand out another $500. —Seymour, ‘ the original World’s greatest. Magnet and Mind Reader, will appear at the Norwalk Opera House. Seymour gives his London sensational drive test on Mondax.February 24, starting from the Norwalk hotel at 12' o’clock, noon. See it. Free to the public. . F. 19 4t. “om HILLSIDE.” Its Walls Reghhd With Music Before the Beginning of _ Lent. . Mrs. Mead Gives a Most Delightful Recep- tion to Her Young Lady Scholars. “Old Hillside,” that renowned insti- tution for young ladies. nestled away among the trees on Prospect Hill, was the scene of life andbeauty last even— ing on the occasion of Mrs. M. E. Mead’s reception to her young lady scholars. Many recei.t.u.is have been given at this time honored institution but it is safe to say that the one last eve- ning was the most enjoyable of all. As the guests arrived they were greet- ed by Mrs. Mead and her assistants, the Misses Root, Conant, Thayer and Brendlinger, with a heartiness that at once indicated that the closing festivi- ties before Lent at Hillside, were to be long remembered by the participants. All of the spacious rooms were thrown open to the guests and Weidenhammer’s celebrated orchestra filled them with the sweetest of music, while the lights and handsome costumes of the young 'ladies presented a scene that rivalled the “shifting of fragments of colored glass in the kaleidoscope.” A dainty collation was served during intermission and the evening’s pleasures were closed with an old-time Virginia reel that made the halls resound with the exuberance of youth. The dancers were the Misses Brend- linger, Alice Mack, Lulu Kemper, Amy Pope, Minnie Bryan, Eudetta Brown, Dora Hasley, Fannie Wakeman, Marion Smith, Edith Hunter, Emilie Jennings, Grace Byington, Jeannette Gregory, Helen Swartz, Clara Bette, Ethel Keep, Grace Dickerman, Julia Lockwood, Alyse Gregory, Grace Seymour and Alice Cole. The gentlemen were H. Thornton Prowitt, Frank Sherman, William Benedict, ‘Ward Gregory, George Woodward, V'Will'ard Comstock, Homer Byington, Frank Van Buren, Charles Rogers, William Beers, Frederick Ells, . Clarence Cram, Louis Leonard, Rob- ert Van Buren, A. D. Keep, Edward Partridge, Rutherford Keeler, Harvey Bette,‘ Harry Camp, Arthur Ezekiel and Stephen Morehouse, Edward Aus- tin and Clarence Bell of Darieu. + WENT BACK AND PERISHED. A Woman Burned to Death in a Farmhouse ' Near Stamford. An old farm house at Riverbank, near Stamford, occupied by Charles Gilder- meister and his family ofa wife and five children, was destroyed by fire yester- day morning. All of the family were brought out in safety, but the wife went back into the house in search of papers and money, and was burned to death. Her body was found in the ruins some hours later. The fire started near the chimney. , The father was so badly burned while rescueing his five children that it is feared he will die. He thought his wife was in a place of safety. ' “The Cotton King.” No melodrama ever presented in this country has made such a record for WideSpread popular interest and artistic and financial success as Sutton Vane’s great play “The Cotton King,” which Manager William A. Brady brings to Hoyt’s Theatre to-morrow night. It is simply a pretty story of factory life told boldly and interspersed with thrilling and comical situations. It is said to be more like “The Lights 0’ London” and “Silver King” than any other play which has been brought from England in this decade. Warns the Undertakers. County Health Officer George E. Hill has issued a warning to undertakers throughout the county. Hereafter any- one that inters a body without firstlse- curing a burial permit will be prose- cuted. The health officer says the cus- tom of burying bodies without permits is now practised: all over the county. The law provides a fine of $500 or six months impriSonment for each offence. 0 Norwalk Opera House.“ On Monday and Tuesday evenings next Andrew J. Seymour, the original edium and mind reader, who is at- t acting people everywhere, will appear at the Norwalk Opera House. On Monday at noon Mr. Seymour will give his great drive test, starting from the Norwalk hotel. «‘0— —Advertise in the “Gazette.” A NEW HOSPITAL. Tract of Land Purchased for an Episcopal Enterprise. St. Mary’s Free Hospital for Children to Locate Here. Deeds are about to pass whereby Norwalk will secure another valuable institution. About thirty acres of land on the Rocks road has been obtained of the Jonathan Camp estate. for the'site of a hjletropolitan Hospital home for.chil- d‘reu. It seems that since the time of Dr. Mead’s rectorship of St. Paul’s church, quiet work in aid of this charity has been done in this place, the modest performers little dreaming of to-day’s result. ' The new edifice will be built under the direction of St. Mary’s Free Hospi- tal for Children which is in charge (f Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York. Mother Superior Harriet Cannon, who comes from a branch of the old Norwalk Cannon family, is the head of the Sis- terhood in the United States. The hospital is lately in receipt of a large bequest and several thousand dol- lars will be immediately expended up- on the new purchase, but the final out- come of the enterprise can hardly be predictedi. —. U Street Railway Notes. Superintendent Kyle reports the elec- tric sweeper as being in readiness for the snow storm which seemed to be brewing in the air early this morning. Conductors Sweet and Clark and Motormau Andrews are in New York to-day looking at the elephant. Eighteen regular conductors and motormen are employed by the Street Railway company, and there are eight conductors and ten 'motormen as extras. The five utility men employed are always busily engagedhbout the station putting the cars in first class order. The company has seven closed and six open cars, and is expecting three new open cars orders for which were placed. some time since. Motorman Fred Osborn was sum- moned as a. witness in the case of Charles '1‘. Leonard vs. the City of Nor- ‘ walk. on trial in Bridgeport, to-day. Extra conductors Adams and Tully and motorman Grace and Louden are on duty to-dsy. ' Thrilbie and Billie. The Ellinwood Players were again greeted by a pleased audience in the Opera House last night. Twenty odd members of the Pioneer Hook and Lad- dtl‘ company Were present as special guests of the Players, and shone re- splendent in blue suits and glittering buttons. “Thrilbie and Little Billie” was the play and it was well presented. In the cast were Lettie Sheppard who made an excellent “Thrilbie," Fred Marsh as “Little Billie,” and Thomas Ellinwood as “Svengall” not only hyp- notized Thrilbie, but succeeded on the same line with the audience. Other characters were well taken by members of the company. Corrine Le Vaunt, actress and danseuse, danced into the good graces of the audience in her usual graceful manner. To-night will be the last appearance of the company here until April next when Mr. Ellinwood promises .to play return dates. Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde is the attraction to-night. , ' . Old-time Devotion. . Fifty one years ago today, Ash Wed- nesday, a severe snow storm was rag- ing in Norwalk. The summons to Len- tal prayer had been sounded forth fr om old St. Paul’s and when the venerated Dr. Mead issued from the vestry room he faced a congregation of three souls, all told,viz., his wife, the church’s sex- ton and the Sainted David St. John, the last of whom had braved the wild elements and driven from Sere Hill to take his place‘in the Sanctuary. I. G. A. R. Encampment. The twenty-ninth annual encamp- mént of the Department of Connecticut G, A. R., assembled-in Norwich to- day. There are eighty-seven posts which are entitled to 801 ‘representa- -tives, who are entitled to vote in the encampment. It is now believed that there Will be fully 300 Grand Army men in attendance. A Large Shipment. The Jones Manufacturing company shipped to London yesterday, “two thousand boxes of carbon paper. This 'is probably the largest shipment of car- bon paper ever made from the United t States. LE'NTEN sssvicss. Programme of Observance of the Season at St. Paul’s Church. ASH WEDNEspAY.-—( [‘o-day) Celebra- tion in Church, 7:30; Litanv, Peniten- tial Office, Celebration, Sermon in Church, 10:30 a. m ; Evening Service, Sermon, in Chapel, 7:30 p. m. SUN_DAi's.—Celebration in, Church 7:30 a. m.; Morning Service, Litany, Sermon in Church, except March lst, 10;30 a. m.; Litany. Celebration, Ser- mon in Church, March 1st. 10:30 h. m.; Evening Service, Sermon, in Chapel, 7:30 p. m. HOLY Days—Monday, Feb. 24th St. Matthias, Celebrations in Church, 7:30 and 10:30 a. m.; Wednesday, March 25th, Annunciation of The Blessed Vir- gin Mary, Celebrations in Church, 7:30 and 10:30 a. m. WEEK DAYS—Mondays, in Chapel. Evening service, 4:00; Tuesdays, in Church. Evening service, 4:00; Wed- nesdays, Church, morning service, Lit- any, 10.00; in Chapel, evening service, sermon, 7:30; Thursdays, in Church, evening service, 4:00; Fridays, in Chap. 61, morning service, Litany, 10:00; in Chapel, evening service, 4:00; Saturdays in Church, evening service, 4:00. HOLY WEEK—Celebration daily. omit- ting Good Friday, 10:00 a m.; Maunday Thursday, in Church, extra celebration, 7:30 a. m.; Wednesday, in Church, Lit- any, Penitential Office, 9:45 a. m.; Evening Services, same as before, ex- cept Good‘Friday. Goon FRIDAY—In Church, Morning Service, Litany, Penitential Office, Ser- mon, 10:00 a. m.; three hours’ Passion Service With addresses on the Seven Words from the Cross, 12 m. to 3 p. m.; Evening Service, 3:15 p. m. The sermons on Wednesday night in Lent will be preached by the following clergymen: Feb. 18th, Rev. W. H. Lewis, of Bridgeport; Feb. 26th, Rev. J. N. Steele, of New' York; March 4th, Rev. H. M. Sherman, of Bridgeport; March 11th, Rev. F. W. Norris. of South Norwalk; March 18th, Rev. G. R. Van De Water, of New York; March . ‘2-5th and April let by the rector of the parish. ' EASTER DAY—Celebration, in Church 7 :30 a. m.; Celebration, Sermon in Church, 10:30 a. m.; Sunday School Festival, in Church, 3:00 p. in. ; Festival Evening Service, in Chapel 7:30 p. m. Big Stogm Coming. The Weather Bureau announces that a big storm is central over Lake Huron, moving east. Another storm is central of the Virginia coast, and they will probably unite during the day, which will cause heavy northeast gales from Eastport, Me., to Hatteras, N. C. Whist Party. The West Main Street Whist Club met at the home of Mr. W, F. Lock- wood last evening. It was another enjoyable meeting of the club, and all were splendidly entertained. Ther were seven tables of players. Mr. .Moses H. Glover won the gentleman’s prize, a rubber plant, and Miss Anna Cotter the ladies’ prize, a cream set. -.- WESTPORT. Mrs. -William C. Staples who has been visiting friends in Brooklyn and New York, returned home yesterday. The final meeting of the, Ladies’ Whist club met last evening at the resi- dence of Rev. James E. Coley. The ladies asked a few of their gentlemen friends and a pleasant evening was spent playing cards and dancing. A collation was served. '. A meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held to-morrow in the Blue Ribbon room. The Band of Hope will meet this Sat- urday afternoon. The trolley made regular trips yester- day afternoon. The Misses Bradley gave a delightful whist party at their residence on Satur- day afternoon. ' The trolley was well patronized yes. ‘ terday afternoon. Along the line stores and houses were decorated in honor of the new enterprise. Miss Mary Couch lies in a critical condition at her home on Woodside avenue. Trinity Guild held.a meeting with Mrs. W. L. Taylor yesterday afternoon. At the Methodist church in South- port last evening, Miss Eva Jellifi'e, daughther of C. ‘0. Jellifi‘e, of that place, was married to Lewis St. John Keeler of Westport. The bridesmaid was Miss Grace Koos of Brooklyn, and the best man was Ambrose Jewett of New Haven. Rev. Dr. Cook pastor of the church performed the ceremony. After their return from an extended wedding tour, they will take up their residence in Southport. é A Magnificent Piano for the Most Popular School, Lodge, Society, Glob orflFire Com- pany in Fairfield County. Which is our most popular school, lodge, society, club or fire company? Which one has the most admirers and friends ‘l Doubtless these questions are beyond the power of any absolute answer, but THE EVENING GAZETTE to—day opens an exceptional opportunity to make the test. THE GAZETTE pro— poses to poll the votes of the people. And the voting is to have zest in it. It is made worth while to vote. There is a magnificent prize at stake. _ . THE GAZETTE will give A $400 UPRIGHT PIANO to the school, lodge, society, club or fire company’which gets the most votes. ‘ It is [an instrument of the very finest character It is beautiful in its workmanship, an ornament worthy of any home, and in all its musical qualities it is unsurpasSed. In every sense it is a perfect and beautiful instrument—equal to the best that can be anywhere bought for $400 IN GOLD. The contest begins today. The following are the rules which govern the voting:‘ » ' good for one vote for the school, lodge, society, club or fire com- pany the owner of the coupon may select—the blank lines in the coupon to be filled out with the name and‘ address. The coupon to-day is at the end of this article. 2—The contest will close on July 2, and the winner announced on July 3. 3—Anyrscléhol, lodge, society, club or fire company in F airfield County is e igi e. ' 4:-—A full record of the voting will be published up to date every evening in THE GAzETTE, but votes received after 10 A. M. will not be re- corded until a day later. 5—Coupons must be filled out in a plain handwriting, for otherwise blund- ers can not be av01ded and votes will be lost. Blank coupons, of course, can not be counted. THE GAZETTE expects a big vote. Fairfield County is full of popular schools, lodges, societies, clubs and fire companies. The centest is. bound to be of wide and live interest, and every preparatlon is made at this office to see that the voting‘ proceeds without a drawback of any sort. I till 81 SUNS. THE. PIANO OFF RED IS THESE It is a piano made upon honor and sold upon merit. A1 party buying one does not get merely a handsome case. He gets a thorough musrcal instrument. The tone of the instru _J._ L .1. ment is full, rich, resonant and well sustained, the scale is magnificent. , l ' ’ Following is the voting coupon, a copy of which 'will ap- pear in THE GAZETTE daily. ' Name, Town, . - . “ . BATTLE OF THE BALLoTs. _ \ 'I ooo HTTTT oooLLTT PHIZ l 1—THE GAZETTE will print'each day a blank coupon, ddch coupon being Hope Hose Company .................................................................... i ........... 4.! 875 Norwalk Yacht Club ................................................................ . ....... ....,,..“£.438'r St. Mary’s School....~...._ ......................................................................... .....i.'.=.:364£ Welcome Stranger Lodge ................ .. ....... ........ _. ........................ . ........ . .340 Pequonock Pleasure Club .................................................................. ' 2.22972 Over River School... ................... . .............. * "'69‘ Center School... ........ __,____u ., . Pioneer Castle........ . ......................... . ................. 2 gIG. .E 00:...‘HdOIIIO‘WIOIOtIOIIOIt llllllllllllllllllllllll > ........ O 00000 I IIIIIIIIIIIII A 0...... ...... 00:... 13 cm 0 11 me 0., es por ............ . ..................................... .. . :- Ariog Singing Society ........................................................ J’fi‘é‘jfl‘fiij’l ’ 1323' Catholic Union Council ........................ . ................ . ........ . ..... ...v.'~.'.".'. , ,i "‘3’ Uncas Tribe .............................. . ............................. ....,.,..,. 3" NorwalkLiederkranz ........................ . ........................... .3,~..>...I.I.”.:.i. " .. 2 \ Knob Outing Club ..... .‘.".'.-.~ .................... . ................. . ....... .-...;.t-.:.;:.ziii:;‘:.».;::-....-.... 2' Pine Ledge Club ..... ' .ziin‘. .9 ...................... . ............ .. .. -, . . 2 s. S. Club ............................ - ..... 2
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