To Get Customers Ad: " vertise in Their Favor— ite Paper, THE EVEN= . ['NG GAZETTE! . VOLI. IX. NO. 20441 151111. MERCHANTS MEET 1 STATE ASSOCIATION ORGAN—7 IZED AND PLANS. .FORMED. J. T. PROWITT SPEAKS. F. D. LAWTON ELECTED: SECRETARY. NEW HAVEN, Jan. 25.——Twenty-four merchants from New Haven, Bridge- port, Hartford, Waterbury, N orwalk, Danbury and New London were present at a meeting held in Room 14 of the In- surance building yesterday morning to organize a State Retail Merchant-5’ association. Henry H. Guernsey, president of the local merchants’ association presided at the meeting, being chosen as the chairman of the meeting. A. J. Lake was selected as secretary. The delegates present were Bridgeport ~—A.J. Cable, DR. Beebe, H. H. Jackson, C.‘ D. Richards, E. H. Dillon, R. T. Whiting. Hartford—A. J. Lake, Hughes of the Merchants’ association and Mr. Kellogg. Waterbury—J. B. Williams, Oscar A. Zigletzke, M. J. Byrne, G. H Hew- ett and Messrs. Cowles and Oppor. Norwalk—J. T. Prowitt, Chas. Seymour, F. D. Lawton. Danbury—M. R. Reynolds. New London—C. C. Perkins. New Haven—C. E. Hart, Presiden t E. H. H. 111111111; 11111111. Mr. Lounsbury of Darien the PrincipalOpponent at Hartford. IMRI. LIGHT lN FAVOR. The Resolution Appropriating $18,000 for Court House Rescinded. \Nhen the representatives of the county met at Hartford yesterday after- nopn Senator Lounsbury, of Darien the action taken by the representatives presented a resolution rescinding lastweek appropriating an additional $18,000 for the erection of a county court house in Danbury. Representative Godfrey, of Bridge- port, seconded the resolution. of Norwalk, stood by Da'nbury, and advocated the Representative Light, additional appropriation, but suggested that Danbury give the county $18,000 ,utright, and relinquish all rights to the use of the new building. I The meeting adopted the resolution rescinding the resolution of last week, .; nd Danbury’s $18,000 was taken away. Senator Lounsbury, of Darien, then Introduced a resolution doing ith Danbury as a county seat. poke at. length upon the resolution. IRepresentative Keneal y of Stamford, away He ads a warm speech against the resolu- ion. -emain a county seat as it had been for tears and said that Danbury should be . iven a court house which would be 1a 'redit to the city and to the county. Representative Hall, of Stratford, fol- owed him. He also spoke against the 'esolution and declared that Danbury .hould not be robbed of its rights in 11011 a fashion. On motion of Representative Jennings f Westport, an adjournment was taken or one week. A V A‘ r I Miss Sarah Vale1.t. ie has returned 0 her home in Foruham, N. Y., after visit at the home of her brother, iennis Valentine of Taylor avenue. y‘- H1.- declared that>Danbury should. S. H. Kirby, Walter Leigh, Harry Leigh. I The first matter before the meeting was the selection of a ‘committee to formulate a constitution and by-laws for the new organization and on mo- tion the ghair man appointed George A. Kellogg, C. E. Hart of New Haven, J. B. Mullings of WaterbuI y, 0.0 .Per- kins of New London and A. J. Cable of Bridgeport. Guernsey, Following the appointment of the comm1ttee Chairman Guernsey called upon some of the members for speech- es concerning the organization and President Hughes of the Hartford as- sociation, Mr. Kellogg of the same as; sociation, Mr. Whitney of Bridgeport, Mr. Mullings of Waterbury, Mr. Per- kins of New London, Mr. Reynolds of Danbury, Mr. Leigh of New Haven, Mr. Lake of Hartford and J. T. Prowitt of Norwalk respon ded. Mr. Prowitt said/that the merchants’ association wasa good thing for Nor- walk. He said thatthemerchants of that city ever since he had been there. HUPES ill Will AGAIN. Aged WeStport Millionaire Courted Norwalk I Widow. ILLN ESS INTERVENED. Health is Returning and Wedding May Take Place. A TVestport despatch to the New Yer k Herald sayts When the children and grandchil- dren of Edward H. Nash, a Westportl millionaire, who is in his ninetieth year, recently assembled beside what they believed to be his deathbed, they learned with surprise that had it «not been for pneumonia the nonogenarianI would have been married for the fourth time, on January 11. l Although Mr. Nash for several days was very near death and on January 8 was reported dead, a Norwalk paper publishing his obituary, he is now well on his way to recovery, he is looking forward expectantly to his marriage in theearly spring to Mrs. Alfred Jack- son, a widow, of Norwalk, Conn, who is approaching her seventieth birth- day and has grandchildren. Unknown to his four children and fourteen grandchildren, the aged man has for sometime been courting Mrs. Jackson, and during the Christmas hol-\ idays the date for the wedding agreed upon and. a large sum4 set aside by the prospective bridegroom as (low-4 er for his bride to be. ture of his illness, it is now believed, was not due so much to pneumonia as was to his bitter disappointment at being unable to have the marriage take place on thedate agreed upon. Mr. Nash’s first marriage was sixty-, four years ago, in 1835, when he mar- ried the eldest daughter of Captain Simuel Gorham, a wealthy farmer. His first wife diedviu 1860, and in 1860 he ‘ I 1 11d alli'in- rid‘ .. I - madcaseco ‘ ce, the b 6 b(‘WElizabeth of Nor- walk, who was the mother of all his iug Miss Margaret Williams, 1 I tion and by-laws which were adopted, ' land to study' church I were working for themselves alone and that they were finding out that combin-, ing for mutual proteCtion was for the interest of all. Mr. Prowitt entertain- ed the merchants with a number of humorous 1ema1ks that Were to the point. After the speeches the meeting ' Iad- At 2 committee reported on the constitu- journed for dinner. o’clock the and the remainder of the afternoon was spent in discussing matters pertain- ing to the organization and the elec— tion of officers. The association then elected the fol- lowing officers: President,I Leigh, of New Haven; vice-president, H. H. Jackson, of Bridgeport; I tary, F. D. Lawton, Norwalk; Harry secre- treas- -urIer, G. A. Kellogg, of Hartford. The board of directors consists of Messers. D. N. Lewis, Hartford; J. B. Mullins and T. H. Hewitt, Waterbruy; C. C. Perkins? and Eben Avery, New London; M. P. Reynolds and E. Stone, Danbury; A. J. Cable, Bridgeport: J. T. Prowitt, Norwalk, and Henry H, Guernsey, New Haven. The association went from the Insur- ance building to attend a banquet at Sparks,’ after which the board of di- rectors went into executive session. The following gentlemen were ap- pointed as a committee to consult counsel in regard to the drafting of bills to.be presented before the legis- lature on thessubject of trading stamps, a bad debtor law similar to the one now in Massachusetts—Messrs. Harry Leigh; H. H. Jackson and F. D. Law- ton. children. His third wife was Mrs. Marvin Tuttle, daughter of his own cousin, M1s. Maria Patrick. She died about th1ee years ago. It 13 Mr. Nash’s sboast that for fifty years he has been proprietor of. mill that his father before conducte‘ for Mr. Nash has heeni prominent in the work of the First E- piscopal Churgh of Westport s1nce its es- tablishment, in 1830, and in 1885 pro- vided funds for a new church building and rectory after having vigited Eng- half a century. architecture there. The only office he had ever held is director in the Westport Bank of Discount, in which he Iis the largest shareholder. I I Mr. Nash’s father, was grandfather Daniel Nash, who of former United States treasurer D. N. Morgan, lived to be ninety-five years old, hopes to live hundred years, quaintly remarking that few persons die aftei they reach that age. A ‘ and the son one ‘ l ' V7 Goodrich’s Big cheme. James W. Goodrich, the circus pro- prietor, says he proposes to startle the world next season by putting a horse- less wago’n show on theIi-oad. He will The serious na- - buy several power-fin auto-mobile wag- ons and the chem pa1aphernalia will be conveyed from town to town by these propellers. This will do away entirely with draft horses Manager Geodrich says he will also arrange so that for a moderate cost people may ride in the horseless wag- ons. He is much impressed with the invention of- Henry A. House of this city. The circus manage1 says he ,ex-I pects a business of large piopoi t1ons w ith his new show. —Bridgeport Fa1 mer. Capt Breckbill’s Retirement. Before Capt. Breckbill can be retired as he wishes, the adjutant general de- sires that he reduce the number of Company K. to a peace footing—68 men ———f10m the war footing of 146 to. which it was raised last May The select‘. onII is to be made by Capt. Breckbill of those men he thinks will make the best guaidsmen. When this is- done Capt. B1eckblll will get the Ielease that he wishes. ° ' ______‘.....>I -~ Frederick-Boerum, is moving Il'rom street, South Norwalk, to Henry street, EastNorwalk‘, the place formerly accupied by G. A. Honnenker. an ’ fl ANOTHER PETITION OFFERED IN THE HOUSE ASKING FOR REPEAL OF THE PIKE NET LAW PASSED IN 1895 ‘. 111 1895 the Noromake Rod and Gun been committed, such an ofiensc may club of N01 walk, th1ough the Norwalk 1 be prosecuted 1n either OIf said towns l representatives in the General Assem- bly, had the following law placed on the statute books: SECTION 1. set, or use any seine, net. pound or pike in any of the' waters of Long Island sound, or any of the creeks or tributai- iesthereto, lying inside or north of the following described lines: commencing 911 the line between the towns of Nor-1 walk and Darien, at the mouth of Five Mile River harbor, from thence south along said town line to a point due west from the most southerly point on Shef- field Island, from thence easterly along the south sfieof Sheffield Island and the plains to the easterly point of the plains, trom thence easterly to the most southerlypoint on Copp Island, from thence easterly to the line between the towns .of Westport and N01 walk at Sprite’s Island, from thence north along the line between the towns of Westport and Norwalk to the main- land at Duck pond. SECTION 2 Wheneve1 there shall be any doubt as to which of the adjoining , towns shes..}uusd1ct1on of the place where ,an offense ag‘ainSt this actI has No person shall draw, I "Ifishifig inthe harbor.” SECTION 3. Every person violating NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARYI25‘,1899. P1110113 Two OENrs ANT Fl SH". LAW REPEAL Every Reader of THE ‘FEVENING GAZETTE ' : isaBuyer..(iive ThIIeIm laTrial II 1 IIn 1897 a long petition, signed as pe- I ‘titions usually are, was sent to the leg- islature asking that the law be repeal- ed, and a representative, said to have. been employedIby the net fishermen, was sent to Hartford to endeavor to get the committee on fish and fisheries to recommend its 1epeal.I I The Noromake club learned of the proposed action on the par t of the net men, find ...I'-rep1esentative of the club went to HarthId and appeared before the committee and objected, with the. . result that the committee made an unanimous report against its repeal. that the net men have not given up their- fight to have the law repealed, as yesterday another It seems, however, the provisions of this act shall be fined petition was offered 1n the House ask- not less than five or more than twenty— five dollars. SECTION 4. This act shall take ef— fect from its passage. Approved April 25, 1895. ,The Noromake club secured the passage of theIlaw to prevent thesetting of fike and other nets in “the. small creeks 1n the N orwalk Harbor, leaving the waters outside of the islands free to the net fishermen. The fike nets were strongly objected' to by the several clubs having club houses as well as the cottagers along I the shore, for the reason that the fisher men were in the habit of setting and ing for its repeal. This time the net fishermen set up the claim that the law is not general in application, but has been made -‘ to apply to the town of N orwalk only. The fish and game commissioners’ attention will no doubt be called to the petition, and other means, taken to prevent a repeal of the law. I <vv DARIEN. Herman Hoefer has received a con- signment of 1, 500 trout for his pond, from the fish commissioners. There- were three bodies in the mor- drawing’theirnetsinthesesmallcreeks guc at the Soldiers Home Sunday and the fish not desired were taken- morning from the nets and thrown upon the beach to dieIand. r . The Noromakecgub objeCted to these acts on the ground that the setting of pounds and fikes was destroying the WENT SCOT FREE. Fine by Name but Escapes a Fine in the Town Court. Among the prisoners before the Towu Court in South Norwalk this morning was a youngman, who IgaVe his name as Abram Fine and his home Worcester, Mass. Early in the evening Abram told Chief Vollmer a tale of woe in which Ihe stated that he had been despoiled. of $150 in money, a gold watch and an overcoat by New York «shai ks He asked f01 lodging and told sucha pitiful stOry that the chief gave him pei mission to stay until morning. In the meantime a man named John- son had been lodged in one of the cages on the charge of intoxication. John- « son and Fine were not long in making each others acquaintance. Johnson wanted to be free and gave l Fine ten dollars with which to secure a caSh bend for his release and reap- pearance f01 trial. I Fine took the money, and promised to hunt up the p1 oper authorities for such release. He failed to come back, and was later captured by Captain Gladstone and locked up. He told the Judge a pretty story in. the Town Court this morning, and es- - ctped with a reprimand. Funeral of Frank Cousins. ‘ The funeral 0f Frank Cousins was held from his late home on Franklin avenue, this after-,noon ReVs. Pond and Selleck officiating. The pall bear'eis were members-”of Pioneer Hook and Ladder company and his Ishopmates at the Lounsbury, Mathewson & Co. shoe manufactory . l‘he floral ofierings were nu'merousand aI speciall y fine piece was (me from the Pioneers emblematical of the truck and made of pinks. The in- .terment was at Rivernde cemeterv.‘ 4 _._->' ‘ Cylinder Head Blew Out. The cylinder head on the 3 o’clock 'train blew out at Southport station yesterday afternodn and delayed t1 avel for half an hour. The passengem were ti-“ansfeued to a passing: express t1 am The broken cylinder w. is repaired by Ithe engineer 'ol'the tiain and taken to Bridgeport. ,1 County Commissioners. .. g : Fair-field county Republicans.~-Iwill caucus this afternoon in Harlidrd“ for the purpose of nominating county con.- 111issione1s. Messrs. Lee and Miliner " twill undoubtedly be reuoiniuatcd. 1 I cut. I that place this morning, WILLIBUILDI'A- LODGE At' the Entrance to . River side cemetery. Cost about $2,500.. The‘iRiverside Cemetery Association has had plans prepared fpr the erec- tion cfa gate lodge at the main e11- trance of the cethery, in Riverside avenue. I The structuii‘b W111 be of granite, one story in height, 21x31 feet, and will be _ of very handsome design. The cost will be about $2,500. There will be two good sized rooms, one to be used as a reception room and the other as the superintendent’s office. There will also be lavatoiies. It 18 proposed to have the new build- ingpo adapted that services may be held there in stormy or cold weather, instead of in the open air, as at pres- I a < v > Board of Health. A meeting of the Board of HealthI was held last night and theorganization completed by the election of Dr. J. G. Gregory as president and Harold Glen- den mug as secretary. Matters of inter- est in the line of health were discussed. but no action of special importance. was taken. . ——R——————‘..'.'—--——————' Haydn Club Will Meet. The regular meetingIof the Haydn Musical society, which wad to have been held in the Center school last night, and which was adjourned on ac-I count of the storm, will be held to- night. This is a very important meet- ing and it is hoped every member will be present. - Business Men’sleeting. There was not the necessary quorum of fifteen at the meeting of the Business Men’s association scheduled'_ to take A ,place at Aiion hall last night, and an adjournment was taken until nextTues- dayevening. , A. I? A l _ ~. ATrustOiInpa'ny'.» i " Mr .Light yesterday offered a bill in the House incorporating (Ehe South N01 walk Trust Co, the. incorpmators being Richard H. Golden, NCIBUH Tay- Ilor, James Golden, and others. 1 ——I—'-<oI.o>—~—-————I At Bantam Lake. Messrs. John H. Ferris, Alden Sol— mans and Charles S. Trowbridg‘e are at Bantam Lake, or at least started for on a fishing expedition ‘. C One old veteran died on Saturday and two on Sunday. I Mrs. Alexander Stevens of Noroton fell dova a stairway in her house Sun- iday mowing, and was conside1ably injured. II a ‘ Eagle Hook and Ladder Co. will . . hold a concert'and dance iurmexengine-w house this evening. I: Rev. 8. A. Sands preachedasermon, 1 Sunday evening, to the members 015 Eagle Hook. and Ladder 00., who attended in a body. ' . The “Uncle John” incident in con-5 nection with the poorhouse has, it is understood, been settled by Stevens, the occupants of the poorhouse, paying Uncle John’s board elsewhere rather than have him back in the house. I WESTPORT. Miss Edna Gault is spending afew days In New York. 6 Mrs. William Stuart is visiting in. New Canaan. Miss Louise Borrman, of New Haven, has been visiting her mother on Compo st1eet. - All trains have to stop at Saugatuck on account of the disari angement of the ' wires, etc. caused by the late wreck. Miss Annie Heffernan, formerly of this place was marriedat Bridgeport, Tuesday, J an. 17, to Mr. George Fraserx of New Ha 11:11, byIthe Rev. Father Rodgers. ' The funeial of John E. Foster, of Green’s Farms, was held from his late residence, Monday. Rev. Mr. Thom- son ofticiated. Mr and Mrs. Rufus Wakeman re- turned from theirIsouthern tiip on Saturday. Right Rev. Bishop Brewster, cf the diocese of Connecticut, has designated Sunday evening, April 23d, when he - proposes to make an‘ official visit to Westport. and.confirm aunion class, from both of the Episdopal parishes here. The services will be held in Christchurch. . CRAN B U RY. ~ Washington Lodge, 1. O. G. T. which . was to have met last night, postponed the meeting on account of the storm. Miss Bertha Addis has a very severe attachof the grip. __ . The meeting 0f the citizens, which I was to have been held last night, in E. L. Gregory’s store, to hear the re- . port. of the financial committee was postponed on account of the storm. The meeting will piobably be held 'l‘huisday night. " Misses Ada andAnna Conn,‘ of Dari- en, were Sunday guests of .14 r. and Mrs. James H.‘Ruscoe, Elm street. . TthWeatHer. Fair and colder to-ni} n1; fail-I Thurs- lay. .
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