South Norwalk. v 'setting the building on fire. THE.EVENINGIGAZETTE r‘e-ru— 4 I Branch Office of GAZETTE No. 12 North Main Street The frost fish are beginning to bite. ETell the readers of the GAZETTE who you have to sell and how you sell it. James 0' Hara is the new ’janitor for the Twin City Wheelmen’ s rooms. He succeeds George Ingersoll. The Bachelors’ Club will hold their annual ball this evening. in the Bed Men’s hall on Washington street. The ladies of the Norwalk Yacht club will meet at the club house Wednesday afternoon and enjoy their whist games as usual. Captain W. H. Hoyt suffered a stroke of paralysis early yesterday morning, and lies at his home on West avenue seriously ill. Organist Thomas Perkins held his first organ recital 1n the Congregational church Saturday afternoon. There was 'a very good attendance. Frank A. Ferris gave the Sunday desecrating bicycle boys asevere lec- ture at his yesterday’s Sunday school class at the Congregational church. The Jerome May Banjo club gave a delightful concert at the City Hotel Saturday evening. Alargenumber of guests attended and the music was greatly enjoyed. Among those talented artists, who will compose the program for the Bed Men’s entertainment to be held Thurs- day evening are Miss Louise Aben- droth, Richard Abendroth, and George H, Hirst. The storm predicted by the weather bureau reached this city yesterday morning and last night. Heavy gusts of wind from the northeast and spells of rainfallcharacterized the disturbance. The sea in the Sound ran very high and a number of boats were weather bound in the harbor awaiting a cessation of the easterly gale. The tide rose very high and in some places submerged the docks. Engineer D. C. Sanford of the shell fish commission, ..with a gang of men, will begin the work of replacing signals along the shore which have been des- troyed during the past summer. Since September four of the most important signals have been destroyed by light- ning. Those destroyed were located at the following points: Duck Island, Little Captain’s Island, Highlands, Guilford and Captain Knapp’s Island. A number of other less important sig- als were destroyed also. The high wind last night played ’havocwith the wires of the Norwalk &: South Norwalk Electric Light com- pany. At the corner of Main and Ann rstreets the incandescent wire broke, ex- tinguishing the lights in the city and Captain Gladstone extiguished the flames and telephoned to the station and a man was sent down and repaired the break. On South Main street another wire broke and one end was lying on the sidewalk spitting out fire. Officer Ire- land reported it and repairs were m1 de . before any damage was done. The members of the Knob Outing club held a meeting in the parlors 1f the Mahackemo Hotel Saturday even- ing and adjourned until the third Sat- urday in March. They will then make several changes in 'the constitution. Among them will be the changing of the date of the annual meeting. from the second Saturday in Octbber to the third Saturday in March and the prohibiting of the residents of‘Norwalk from visit- ing the club except on visitors’ days which should be held once a month. No officers were elected, but the elec- tion will take place at'the next meeting. Saturday night about 10. o'clock an unknown man was discovered lying be- side the railroad track just east of the Milford depot. It is not k iown whet-her he was struck while walking on the track or had been thrown from a. train. He was picked up and taken to the Milford depot, from whence he was removed to New Haven and sent to the hospital. Owing to his uncen- scious condition the hospital authorities were unable to learn his name or resi- dence. His injuries consisted of a fractured arm and a severe cut on the head. He is a man 5 feet 5 inches high, with light hair and a heavy sandy mustach. He wore a dark suit. of clothes. Saturday afternoon Chief Vollmer was notified that Mrs. Annie Hyatt, the. side partner of the celebrated Danbury J ack, wassleeping off a jag near Trinity church. The Chief responded to the, notice and found Mrs. Jack lying full length on the ground. When he at- tempted to raise her he found she could not stand upon her feet. He was about to send for a conveyance when an idea struck him. “Say Annie,” said . ‘ the chief, 1‘ ‘Jack is down to the station and wants ,you.” "Does my darling want me ? ” injuired the inebriated Mrs. Jack and up she jumped and made a bee line for the station house where she was locked up. This morning she appeared before Judge Frost and wa-zz : i sent to jail for 60 days. It 1s more than likely that Jack will Join his partner in life before many moons. In spite of the hurricane yesterday quite a number of the members of the Twin City Wheeimen started on their first annual century run to Guilford ‘ time riding against the strong wind and were pretty well tired out when they reached Guilf‘ord. As some of them had no lanterns one group left for home t2 o’clock and the other at 3. All will soon be we1ring their century bars. Those who started were Captain Fred Ganung, 2.1 Lieutenant Clarence E. Miller, Waldo Raymond, Fred 0 Han- ford, Ernest Barlhol, Thomas Hunt, Loraine Brown, Everett Stannard, Philip Wheeler and Ollie Jackson. All of these finished the run with the ex- ception of Stahnard and Brown. The latter was compelled to take the train at Bridgeport on the .way home, having ridden all the rest of the way. The last- group were caught in the rain and were completely drenched when they reached home. All of the boys speak very high- ly of the way they were treated at the ‘ Guilford hotel where they took dinner. —-<-O- Additional Here and There. The case of the State vs. Daniel Han- lon and the Reynolds boys will be tried in the Superior Court, to-morrow. The Misses Scofield entertained a number of their lady friends at their home on Harbor avenue, Saturday evening. Superintendent Guthrie of the Nor- walk and South N orwalk Electric Light company has leased the Sherwood place on Belden avenue. The Delegates from the King's Daughters of the First Congregational church going to the State Convention ta Hartford to-morrow will take the train which leaves South Norwalk at .12 05. Mr. George R. Cowles who was .1... posed to have been fatally stricken, has to the delight of his hosts of friends, rallied and decidedly improved in the past day or two. The Beardsley mud-digger wrecked a sail-boat near Jenning’s wharf a few days since. The boat belonged to Thomas Robinson. The motor has been amicably adjusted by the owners of both crafts. ' At the First Congregational church yesterday the pastor preached in the morning upon “The Biblical Idea of the Christian Church.” In the even- ing the pastor’s theme was “Biblical Pictures of Heaven,” and the music of the Veepnr service was repeated. THE? DOINGS 20F WOMEN. Vl'omen in Holland are employed as watchers at the railway crossings, and no accident has ever occurred through a woman’s carelessness. Miss Virginia. Pope is a head window- drcsser for a. large dry goods estab- lishment in' Buffalo, and receives ncXt to the largest salary paid .in' the estab- lishment. _ An enterprising woman in a large city has made a study of entertaining" children, and has turned her acquire- ments in this line to practical account. She assists at childrens parties, ar- ranging beforehand an entertainment suitable to the age and tastes of the company. This year Calve is the best paid of the singers in the. Metropolitan opera. company, getting more than Melba. or De Reszke. She has an offer from an American manager for a. tour of the country next. year in “Carmen,” 50 per- formances, $2,400 a night. The term “abigail,” 'as applied to ladies’ maids, originated from the Chris- tian name of Mrs. Masham, . better known as rAbigail -Ma.sham, at first a waiting-maid upon Queen Anne, and at last the intriguing favorite who sup- planted the duchess of Marlborough in the good graces of that sovereign. SEMI-NEWSY AN D INTERESTING. The old- fashioned gavotte and redowa are again the fashionable dances in Paris. The conscience fund at Washington has been increased by a $15,000 contri- bution from London. A huge egg-bake was, witnessed re- cently in Ovid, Mich. Awarehouse took fire, and in it were 72,000 eggs, all of which were baked hard. A cougar, six feet long, and two well~ grown cubs w e‘re killed near The Dalles, Ore., recently.’ The family had carried off many calves and sheep from neigh- boring ranches. Oakland, Cal., claims to be the healthiest city in the world, or, at any rate, in the United States. The death rate has fallen since 1882, when it was :1 thousand. A trump at Decatur, 1nd,, rescued Miss Elvira. Rex firom drowning. She had been skating and fell through the ice., l-'IIer rescuer has since been a. guest of the young lady’s family, and will be started in business by the grateful parents. ABOUT THE WORLD’S NAVIES. ' It is the custom of ships lying at the Brooklyn navy yard to discharge their powder before entering the docks, as a precaution against accidents. A torpedo boat was successfully trans- ferred by rail from St. Petersburg to ber of others will now be sent in the same way to the Black sea-fleet. By the end of the present year Eng- land will have under construction. or newly completed 13 battle ships, 36 cruisers and 68 torpedo boat destroyers. Between the years 1885 and 1895 Eng- land’s increase in naval strength was 37 per cent, that of France 42 per cent, Russia’s 71 per cent., and Germany doubled the number of its war ships. ___g. and return. The wheelmen had a hard I Advertise in the Gamma 13.56 a. thousand. Last- year it was 11.85 ‘ Sebastopol a little while ago, and a num- - .:‘ ALMOST DROWNED BY DOGS» in the River. , George Bletauset, a New York Ger- man brewer, has a big white bulldog and a. lively little Scotch terrier, who are pets of the whole neighborhood The dogs are fond of the watti, c 1.1 Bietauset frequently had taken the .‘ down to the river front near his her 51 to give them a. little frolic. One night last summer, accompa— nied by his wife and two boys, the brewer took- the dogs down to the June street dock. They were fas- tened together On the ends of :1 check rope eight feet long, and he held the middle "of the rope while he stood on the unprotected slanting gangway near. the street end cf the "pier. He intended to kep one dog on'the pier while the other had a dip in the river. The terrier had a bath first; Bietau- set held 'the check rope, while the bulldog barked and; sprang about in frantic anxiety to join the‘terrier in the water. The bulldog, in prancing about, got the check rope, which was stout and tough, so tangled around one of Bietauset’s legsthat the brewer had to. let go to free himself. The in- stant he released'hi's grip the bulldog sprang into the river, and its master, being unprepared, was dragged from his footing into the water. He fell head first, and the twodogs, tugging at the rope, rendered it impossible for him to keep his head above water. Bietauset weighs about 180 pounds, and does not know how to swim. His wife, who knew this, became greatly frightened and screamed to him, when he got his head out of water, to seize the piles of the pier. The tide was low and running out, and the brew- er’s frantic efforts to get near the piles only caused his head to go un- der water again. His sons, lads of 7 and 8 years, and half a dozen other boys of about the same age, shouted for help. Their cries brought several workingmen from the brewery oppo- site Bietauset’s home, but none of the big fellows could swim. They leaned over the stringpiece of the pier, and held their arms down as far as they could toward the water and yelled to their fellow Workman to give them a grip of his hand. But the dogs kept tugging at the check rope, drawing it more tightly around his legs and dous- ing him under water. Bietauset had been more than five minutes in the water,.and was rap- idly becoming exhausted, when 17- year-old William Walsh came dash- ing up, and seeing the brewer’s pre- dicament, promptly sprang into the water and swam out to aid him. As he caught hold of Bietuuset’s’ hair, and held his head up out of the wa- ter, the two dogs got the idea that be both sprang upon him. He had to devote almost his entire energy to beating off the dogs and keeping them from dragging their master’s head un- der water. It was a. desperate battle, and in five minutes Bietauset. who had swallowed a- deal of "salt i‘wa'ter', became exhausted and fainted away. His wife, who had been a helpless spectator of the struggle, gave a loud scream and fell back upon the pier in a faint. The urchins around the pier and the brewers scurried around hunt- ing for a boat, while Walsh kept shouting for help. Five minutes passed before the men found a row- boat, a half a. block away. They jumped in and rowed to the pier. Bie- tauset was completely unconscious when they dragged him and Walsh into the bout. Searching for i]. Wife. marry, and then he started on a still hunt for a good, sensible girl for a wife. He saw a young lady on a crowded street car who was not occupying two seats, and he thought: “This is prom- ising. I will keep my eye on her.”. He met a young lady on the street who wore a gown that did not trail in the dirt, and he thought: “She’s worth watching. She has some sense.” He was suddenly pushed against a young lady in a crowded corridor, who did not stare at him and mutter “Awkward brute’” when he apolo- gized, and he thought: “There’s a gem, truly.” He was introduced to a young lady at a ball who was not overdressed, and yet who wore 11 waist that was visible to the naked eye, and he thought: “Taste, modesty That’s a good combination.” He sat behind a young lady in a theatre who took off her hat, and let him get a glimpse of the stage, and he thought: “Consideration for others is a great point. I must find out who she is.” He stood behind a young lady, in a dry goods store who did not paw over everything in sight and keep one clerk busy for half an hour that she might buy a spool of thread, and he thought: “She must really be a ti'easure.” “Queen ,of your sexl” he exclaimed, impetuously. “Beacon light in the darkness of woman’s ways! Shining star of, progress'toward a better con- ception of the courtesies of life! _Will you be mine?” And she said she would if her hus-' bund would let her. But he collapsed. Sorrow Laden “Troubles never come singly ” said the man who secured a. divorce. “What’s the matter?" “Oh, first I got clear of my. first .wife, and then, like a fool, I married agaiin.”——Philadelphia North“ Ameri- can. . Coast Defences Needed. » “This country needs better coast de- fences!” shouted the stump speaker. “That’s right!” cried a voice. “Com- ing down hill every searcher ought to have a brakel”——Puck. “ *' “WA—311- O Adgertise in the GAME-1:11. BietauSet’s’ Narrow Escape From Death was‘.going to _.hurt their master. and. He made up his mind he' ought to and. sense. ‘ 11011111111 OPERAHOUSE. ’ r. 11.11111111111, - 111111110111. 9 MONDAY,'Oct.12th. .1111: 11111111 111111. Harry and Edward Paulton’s Operatic Com- edy Success. ‘DOROASX As played' in New York. Boston. Philadelphia; Chicago and San Francisco with New Music, New Songs, Magnificent costumes, New Comedy, New Effects. All. STAIl CAST '7 PRICES:—$1 , 75, 5C), and 350. $1.00 and 75c seats may be obtained at Weed‘s and Tomlinson’s. W. RILBERT HEVlELL’S ‘ School for Dancing and Department. ABION HALL. SO. NOBWALK. Class for Misses pand Masters, Wednesday. October 14, at4 p. m,; Evening Classes for Ladies and Gentlemen. Wednesday, October 14 at 8 o ’cl.ock The waltz and the latest so- ciety dances thoroughly taught. Circulars at the book and drug stores. Respect tfullv. W. GILBE R'WI‘NE ELL 37 Liberty street. Bridgeport. Ct. HERE’S YOIIR OHAHOE. A fine building lot on Wilton ave- nue. If you intend to build, look at this before purchasing. Water, gas and sewer on the avenue, Will be sold at a Bargain. W. H. BYINGTON, - Real Estate and Insurance Room I. Gazette B’I’d. SPECIAL! A five cent Bottle of best black ink from now until October 10111 for ’2 1‘ ‘ EC. 25 envelopes for 3 cents. 24 sheets: writing paper for 4 cents. JOH N T. HAYES. . NO. :5 MAIN STREET. NORWALK. Best Goods. Lowest Prices. MISS BAIRD’S INSTITUTE. Norwalk, Conn. 25TH YEAR. 15th Year in Norwalk. 110111111111 1111 11131111001 Primary, 1ntermed1at e, academic and college preparatory classes. Specialists employed for physical culture, elocuti on. music. art and the languages. Careful attention to morals and manners. A limited number of day pupils and special students admitted. Send for cir- cular. Early application desirable. Miss Baird is at home to visitors on Thurs- day and Friday of each week until 5 p. m The Fall and Winter|term of this School opens on Thursday the 24th inst. . .. ‘ _____. FAWCETT’S 3 WATER STREET. I Opehing of Fall and Winter] Hillinery On THURSDAY, smear and l SATU RDAY, Oct. I, 2, 3. All are cordially invited to attend. 1 Everyone making a. purchase or loavingdap order will be presented with a souvenir. FAWGETTS. 3 Water Street, Norwalk. Raymond & Son. Successorsto GeorgeH. Raymond. Furniture Dealers and General Funeral irectors. ‘ 46 and 48 Main Street Norwalk Ct Remdence, Berkeley Place, Telephone No. 7 74 The in Life Ins. Co. .fifiOf Hartford, Conn;, ~ Has Given Larger Divide Illi, and Lower Cost I To Policy Holders than ANY OTHER Company ~ 1 In the UNITED STATES” 111110111101 POLIOY 110. 115,232. Issued in 1876, at the age of 30, for $1.000. 20-year Endowment. Annual Premium, $46. I 6. 20 Full Premiums, - ~ '- . $923 20. Less 20 Dividends, - - , - - 259 32. .Net cost, - - _- 5 S663 83 This policy was paid at maturity in 1896. and showing again of $336.12 and 20 years insurance for $1.000. The Success which has been attained by the AETNA LIFE in producing the combined elements of Safety and Lowest Costlto the insured is the direct and logical result of a responsible stock management. MORGAN o. BULKELEY, President. , JOHN I. HUTCHINSON, General Accident Agent, Hartford E. E. HALLOCK, General Agent. 5, Hnbinger 131113., New Haven. Newlor and waal 're‘i‘g lIlB PROPELLERS 6in 1131111111. Earle-and Vulcan Will Leave Pier 23, E. R., N. Y. (Beekman St.). for 1011111111 30111 NURWALK AT 5 P. M. Leave SOUTH NOI‘WdIk Daily at6 P. M. Leave Norwalk Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at ‘5 P. M. duet Rec SSVSQ.‘ 'A Lot of WOODEN BICYCLE .' HANDLE ‘. BARS, Which 'I will sell, for the nexo week, at $2.50 per pair. Also have a. look at my line of OARRIAOES, WAOOHS, BIOTOLES, HARHESS IlHO HORSE OOOOS. HO TROUBLE TO SHOW OOOOS, EVEH THOIIOH TOII OO HOT PIIROHASE. '8‘ Repairing Done at Short Notice. LUTHER M. WRIGHT, 'Oarrlage Factorv and Repository, Franklin & Madison 815., So. 'Horwslk. OU read this advertisement. If it had been yours and others had read it, how much good it might have done. Send in your (my, and we will do the rest. Rates on application. I 1 1 V
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