"with parties out into the sound.
- a sail on the Sound today in his new
joyed. -
Europe. .»
SOUTH _l\l_‘0§yVALK.
Branch Office of GAZETTE No. 12
North Main “Street.
A song recital by the pupils of Mrs.
A. F. Wheeler will be given next Wed-
nesday evening, infithe Baptist church.
The Industrial LeaguTe of the Metho-
dist church will hold a meeting at the
home of Edward Brush on - Bayview
avenue to—morrow night._
Mrs. Mead’s scholars left on 'the 10
o’cloék train this morning for their re-
spective homes.
——Eddy refrigerators at a sacrifice.
So. N orwalk Hardware Co.
About fifty members of the Norwalk
Yacht club enjoyed a fish chowder at
the clubhouse last night, as the guest
of ex-Senator John H. Ferris. They
went and returned on special trolley
cars. The Senator’s speedy launch Eva
L was on hand and made several trips
Clarence Osborn has a party out for
yacht.
George L. Rockwell and family left.
yesterday for an extended visit at
Watch Hill.
—Buy an Eddy refrigerator and save
25 per cent. on your ice bill. So. Nor-
walk Hardware Co.
Joseph Thomas of New York, is vis-
iting with his cousin, Ben F. Andrews,
at the latter’s home on West avenue.
The graduation exercises of the New
Haven State Normol school will be held
tomorrow afternoon. Among the local
young ladies who will graduate are the
Misses Helen Augusta McGue, Millie
Wilcox, Marie Keith and Estelle W'hit-
ney.
Superintendent King W'illiam Mans-
field will give a trolley ride to a party
of friends this evening.
The Matinee Euchre club held a
meeting yesterday afternoon with Miss
Minnie Knapp at her home on W’ashing-
ton street, Mrs. George R. Byington
won the first prize‘ and Miss Labour
the guests. Refreshments were served
as usual after games.
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L0 CAL AND OTHER NEWS.
Charles Fitch is ill at his home on
East avenue.
Rev. D. L. Ferris, of Stamford, is
nursing a light attack of scarlet fever.
_ Dwyer’s City of Norwalk Band will
rehearse to-night. '
The supper of the Insurance men at
Dorlon’s last evening was greatly en-
Miss Grace Stommell will preside at
the organ of the First Congregational
church next Sunday.
VVatermelons and peaches are in the
markets. The doctors are . also com-
plaining of lack of business.
The subject of the meeting this even-
ing in the Congregational chapel will
be “God’s Handiwork in Nature.” Pas-
tor’s hour in Church Study as usual at.
7 o’clock.
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PERSONAL NOTES.
Rev. William R. Bennett son of Ed-
win Bennett of Madison, N. J ., leaves
New York on June 30,, for a,“ trip to
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Treadwell are
visiting in Cornwall. ,
Miss Ella Lockwood and Miss Kittie
Clark of Danbury are guests of Miss
Fannie Clark of Merwin street.
Rev. I. S. Sands, and family, leave
to-day for Lynn, Mass, where Mr.
Sands has been appointed a new field
of labor.
V 7‘
Soaks His Bait in Whiskey.
Colonel Pete Rickler, of East Bruns-
wick, is the greatest fisherman in
Middlesex County. He claims to have
a great secret for hooking fish. Yes-,.
terday (he confided this secret to a
friend over a social glass. “Soak your
bait in Whiskey,” he said. “Fish like
it. But be sure and use apple. whiskey.
They don’t like rye.” A few days 212:1
the Colonel went fishing and drank :LI
his whiskey before he thought of soak.
ing his bait. He then tied the empty
bottle to his line and cast it over.
\Yhile waiting for a bite he went to
sleep. Soon he was aroused by :1
hard pull on the line. Drawing it in
he found that a large eel had crawled
into the bottle and could not get out.
The Colonel' was obliged to break the
bottle to get the fish. All East Bruns-
wick Wonders at the‘ prowess of Col-
onel Pete. He has a daughter who
has large trustful eyes like a gazelle.
She could not tell a lie, and she ver-
ifies her father’s story in every par-
ticular.
As It'Seemed to mm.
“Doctah I gwine ax yo’ fo’ annudder
0’ dem ermet-ic powdars dat yo’ gib
me las’ week w’en I done be’n sick wid
dc" spepsy.”
“Then you have had another attack.
have you, Jasper?”
“Not ’zackly, sah, but I done drap
mer pipe down de well, sah, an’ from
de way dat powdah pufform in do
case er merse’f, I got or right ter t'ink
dat ef I drap it down do well hit
gwine ter bring d'at pipe ter de suflaee
in erbout fo’ seconds, sah.”~—Boston
Courier. .
- DR. BREWSTER ACCEPTS.
Hc Sends Word That He Will Become co-
adjutor Bishop of Connecticut.
The Rev. Francis Goodwin, of Hart-
ford, chairman of the convention com-
mittee, of which the 'Rev. G. w. Doug-
las and Burton Mansfield, of New Ha-
ven, and William W. Skiddy, of Stam-
ford, are the other members has re-
ceived a letter from the Rev. Dr.
Chauncey H. Brewster of Brooklyn,
accepting the office of bishop coadjutor,
to which he was chosen at the Episco-
pal diocesan convention at Waterbury,
two weeks ago. Dr. Brewster ex-
pressed his sincere appreciation of the
honor which had been conferred up-
on him. -
EAST 'NORWALK.
Miss Emilie Osborn and Miss Fannie
Rice who have been visiting Mrs.
Charles H. Rider. of Cottage avenue,
returned to their homes in Brooklyn
to-day.
The weekly prayer and praise meet-
ing of the East avenue M. E. church
will be held this evening in the lecture
room and will be led by the pastor.
Mrs: Charles L. Ainsworth of Cot-
tage avenue is visiting friends in Row-
ayton to—day.
William Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. B. Smith, of Osborne avenue, is ex-
pected home next week from Annapo-
lis,.Md., where he has been teaching__
the past year.
Builder Sues For His Pay.
The suit of Michal ‘ Connery, a N or-
walk builder, against John Bolton and
wife was on trial in the Civil Superior
court yesterday afternoon. Connery
built a house for the defendants which
they claim noes not comply with the
specifications and refuse to pay for it.
The suit is to enforce payment. Attor-
neys Hurlbutt & Gregory appear for
the defendants.
., FRATERNAL NEWS.
Secretaries of fraternal, or secret so-
cieties are invited to send to the
GAZETTE, the elections of officers and
other news pertaining to their lodges
to be printed in this column. The
names of officers should be brought in
on the evening of their election and
all other news with equal promptness.
Butler Lodgeyl. O. O. F. conferred
the second degree last night
The Daughters of Hermann held
their semi-annual meeting and elected
officers last night. ‘
IA;
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PENSION OFFICE PLAYS DETECTIVE.
Reuniting Families as 8 Side Issue in Its
Business.
The Pension Office, besides examin-
ing into pension claims and‘ passing on
them, does an enormous amount of
other business in the way of reuniting
families—we find husbands for wives,
wives for husbands, parents for chil-
dren and children for parents. Only
recently a case came under my obser-
vation which illustrates my meaning,
and ’tis a sample of a number of oth-
ers. An application was received from
a lady who applied 'fbr‘a 'widpw‘s pen-
sion. She gave the name of ’her hus
hand, his service, company and regi-
ment. In looking into the claim it was
found that the husband wagalive and
drawing a pension through the pension
agency at Chicago. The woman, who
resides in Massachusetts, was so in-
formed, says the Washington Star.
Immediately came a reply from her
asking the address of the man, 'which
was furnished. A correspondence eu~
sued between them, and when they sat-
isfied themselves that they were on the
right track they arranged a meeting.
The man thought that his wife had
died, and at the close of the war en—
tered the regular army. and went West.
The woman, not hearing from her hus-
band, became convinced that he had
been killed or had died. She was unof-
ficially informed'that he had died in a
hospital, and supposed it was a fact.
In the meantime she had married
again. Her second husband had died,
112d had been dead over ten years when
she applied for a pension.
Another case I call to mind is that of
a soldier who originally lived at N iag-
ara Falls. He went in the army and
served under Sherman. At the close of
the war he settled in New Orleans. He
had positive information that his wife
had died, but he was never able to get
any information as to what had be-
dome of his three children, except that
they had been sent to an orphan asy-
lum. He did not know in what State
the orphan asylum was located. Nei-
ther did the children know whether
their father was dead or alive, though
from what they had been able to pick
up in the way of information from
time to time they concluded that he
had passed to the other side.
It happened that the daughter of the
soldier not only grow up to be a bean-
tiful woman, but had married a
wealthy man. She wrote to the lVar
Department to learn of the where-
abouts of her father’s grave, but there
was no record of it. . She then wrote
to the Pension Office for the address of
a man she had heard served with her
father, and who at one time lived at
Niagara Falls. The ending of it all
was—that the children found the father
and the father found his children.
There are hundreds of such cases,
though, of course, the number of them
ls becoming smaller as time passes.
All Left.
“Was there any thing left of the es-
tate after it got through the courts?”
“Oh, yes, the heirs."——Chicago J our-
pal.
(T HE E v EN I N G G AZ ETT E " .
.,.. -....-n ... _ A Doubtful‘ Compliment. »
Sunflower lead 011. in this
Dr. Wiley,.the chemist of the Agri- '
cultural Department ~in Washington,
says that, in his opinion, the coming
salad oil will be made of sunflower
Seed. It 1s a perfect substitute for 01-
ive oil, and will be so cheap that it
may be used on the poor man’s table.
{-Iis rem-ark was probably. meant to en-
courage farmers in raising sunflower
seed, but it is lilfily to work the other
way. Farmers prefer to raise some-
lhing that will be dear, and not cheap.
—Ncw York Tribune. "
“Did you read my article
morning’s paper?” , .
“Yes, my boy; 'I read it through
:wice." ‘
“That’s a great compliment.”
“I read it twice to try and under-
stand what it was about.”—New York
Tournal. e
‘—
A Puzzle fér {Tie Barber.
Three brothers bearing a remarka-
ble resemblance to one another are in
the habit of shaving at the same bar-
ber’s shop. Not long ago one of the
brothers entered the shop early in the
morning, and was shaved by a Ger-
man who had been at work in the shop
only a few days. About noon another
His Earthly Efl‘ects.
“Well, Uncle Jim,” said the lawyer,
“the doctor says there’s no hope for
you.” . _ brother came in and underwent a sim-
NQS: 511.13,? dey tel.s me I gwme ter ilar operation at the hands of the same
CI‘O'SS 0V91- barber. In the evening the third
“Have you made your will?”
“Yes. suh; I done. will ter go.”
“I liter-.11," said the lawyer, in an ex-
planatory way, “have you got any-
thing to leave?"
“Oh, yes. sch!” exclaimed the old
man joyfully. "Onewife en de rheu‘
matism‘."—Atlanta Comtitution.
brother made his appearance, when
ghe German, dropping his razor in as-
tonishment, exclaimed: “Vell, upon
my vordl dial: man hash de fashtest
heard I never saw; I shaves him dis
morning, shaves him at dinner~times,
and he gomes back now mit his beard
so long as it never vashl"
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DAILY _ TIPS TO NEW YORK.
SIDEW HEEL PASSENGER STEAMER
BELLE " HORTON!
Leave South N orwalk, 7:30 a. in. Leave New York, Beekman St., 2:15 _ p.
m., (Saturday, 1:35 p. m.); East 31st Street, 2:40 p. m., (Saturday, 2:00 p. m.
FARE: Slngle,40o. Excursion, 100.
SPEDIAL SUNDAY SAILS. JIINE ZTTII, TO NORTH BEARN
I EXCURSION FARE, 500.
Leaving South Norwalk, 10:00 a. 111. Leave North Beach, 4:00 p. m.
FREIGHT PROPELLER TO NDRWALKTAND SD. NDRWALII.
Leave Beekman Street, N. Y., Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5 p. m.
Leave Norwalk, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5:00 p. m.
Luther M.Wrig 11.1:
CARRIAGE BUILDER AND DEALER, ‘
NADISDN AND FRANKLIN STREETS, SDIII'II NDRWALK.
Agent for _ '
Pierce, Rochester, -
Amos, Buffalo, '
Lena 8 Black Diamond
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Prices from $37.50 to 8100.
MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY I
The “Orient ” and “Saracen ’
Are THE wheels of to-day.
At Saunders,’ No. 12 North Main
Is where they hold full sway.
He carries every part in stock
And treats you all alike,
No trouble if of him you buy
Your Ninety-Seven Bike.
At coasting or at racing
They’ve always stood the peer,
The reason is, they’re fitted with
The famous “Pitch line gear. ”
The crack-a-jacks all ride them,
You know the reason why,
They’re just the class of riders
Who know what wheel to buy.
Prizfivinners are these wheels:
And ahead they’ll always be,
Just watch them in the races,
And for yourself you’ll see.
And when the victory’s over,
When time prize has been won,
They’ll quietly speak for themselves
And simply say, well done.
Yours Dnlil Death, -
H. A. SAUNDERS, Export in Bicycles
I2 North Main Street, South Norwalk.
SPECIAL ‘ SALE!
PENNANT 010ch£8 $38.00.
A first class high grade wheel, large tubing and all 1897
provements. Made by the Acme Mfg, Co., makers of the
celebrated Stormer bicycle. A chance to get a fine wheel for
little money. 8.
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Stock and Mutual Management
Compared. ’1
IETIIA LIFE allll CONNECTICUT ”MUTUAL.
HE comparative merits of the so-called “purely mutual” system of manage-
ment for life insurance companies and of stock management are
clearly shown by the following comparisons. We have selected the
largest proxy-mutual company in the New England States (the Connec—
ticut Mutual, and compare it, with the ETN A LIFE, the largest com-
pany with stock management. . - ..
The Connecticut Mutual, by 1ts annual statement filed w1th the Insurance
Commissioner of this State, January 1, 1897, shows that it‘” has $525,093.79 more
than its entire surplus, invested in real estate. (It increased its holdings of real
estate in 1896, $1,108,702.75). Its taxes repairs and expenses on real estate in
1896 amounted to $298,675.90, 01' 842911.31 more than its entire Income from that
source, hence it appears from the sworn statement of that company that no In-
come was realized from its surplus, nor from the $525,093.79 (the excess of real
estate over surplus), but, on the contrary it was behind from that source, as
shown above. $42,911.31. _ .
‘ Of the ZETNA LIFE’S surplus ($6,711,502.25), 1t had on the first of January
last, as shown by its statement filed with the Commissioner, real estate amount-
ing to $486,348.25, leaving of its surplus to be otherw1se Invested $6,225,154.00.
Its net income from real estate amounted to $8,150.82. Its surplus not invested
in real estate earned in 1896 5 1-10 per cent, or $317,482.85, to which add its in-
come from real estate as above, makes $325,633.67 earned upon its surplus alone.
The Connecticut Mutual, on the other hand, instead of earning anything on this
part of its assets, shows a loss, as above stated, of $42.9ll.3l.
These unfavorable investments affect the dividends of that company. - (Had
the Connecticut Mutual obtained as favorable results, in the above particular,
as the 2ETN A LIFE, it would have gainedin the year 1896, over its present ex-
perience, $469,138,25. ) :
' $10,000—TEN-PAYIVIENT LIFE PLAN—AGE 57.
Comparison of results under two policies on the life of GEN. SAMUEL C.
LAWRENCE, of Boston, Mass, issued the same year, at the same age, same
term and alike in all important particulars:
ETNA LIFE—No. 184,491. CONNECTICUT MUTUAL—No. 191,026.
1 The fine office formerly occupied by
Police Headquarters. Suitable for Insur-
ance, Real Estate, 850. Possession July 1.
Terms moderate. Apply at '
I GAZETTE. onEIcE.
r - Divi- Net Pre- Divi— Net Savings in Etna Life
aniuin. dend. Payment. Year. mium. dend. Payment: with Interest.
$854.30 ...... $854.30 1890 $964.50 ...... . $964.50 $|65 3O
....... $30.40 823.90 1891 $60.90 903.60 IIO 33
....... 50.49 803.81 1892 83.10 881.40 I03 97
. ....... 61.94 792.36 1893 ....... 105.40 859.10 84 09
....... 73.85 780.45 1894 128.00 836.50 66 69
I ....... 86.27 768.03 1895 ....... 151.10 813.40 50 8|
. ....... 99.26 755.04 1896 ....... 174.40 790.10 37 IS
....... 122.90 741.40 1897 186.90 777.60 36 20
............. $6,3I9.29 6,826.20 $654 55
Saving in the ZETN A '“LlFE, including interest on the payments to date,
amounts to $654.55.
ANOTHER COMPARISON.
$20.000—l 5-PAYMENT LIFE PLAN—AGE 4-2.
Etna Life.—No. 167,013. (Raised to $20,000 for comparison). Oonn.)MutuaI.—No. 185,836
r - Divi- Net . Divi- Net Savings in IBM Life
rdjiuin. dend. Payment. Year. Premium, dend. Payment. with Interest.
$881.60 ...... $881.60 1888 $1,004.20 ...... 81,004.20 $208 42
....... $61.60 820.00 1889 $62.00 942.20 194. 29
....... 82.20 799.40 1890 83.20 921.00 182 40
....... 94.20 787.40 1891 104.60 899.60 , 159 32
....... 106.40 775.20 1892 132 60 871.60 129 17
....... 119.20 762.40 1893 157.40 . 846.80 106 34
....... 132.20 749.40 1894 182.40 821.80 85 15
145.80 735.80 1895 .......... 196.00 808.20 31 03
....... 160.06 721.54 1896 210.00 794.20 77 0|
.... . ..l ...... ls7,032.74 ...... I ................ $7,909.60 $1,224 13
Difference in net payments in JETNA LIFE’S favor, $876. 86. Adding in-
terest, to date, on different payments, the amountwill be increased to $l,224.18
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