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ESTABLISHED 1800
. NORWALK
An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests.
VOLUME LXXXIX.
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LOCAL I TEMSZ
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Mrs. Wm. G. Thomas is Visiting her
daughter in Minnesota.‘
Mrs. O. E. Wilson and daughters are
visiting friends in Winsted;
Miss Sarah Bissell of Pittsfield, is visit-
her uncle Rev. S. B. S. Bissell.
George Ward Selleck was selling Weston
whorleberries at his store last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Richardson are putting
St. Paul’s rectory in order for occupancy.
Immense quantities of hay and coal
were stowed away last week for winter
use.
- Miss Cora Forbes of St. Louis, is visit—
ing Mrs. Charles De Hart Brewer, of East
avenue.
Mr. Robert Pike, of Middletown, for-
merly a government engineer, wasin town
last week.
Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Noble went to Strat-
ford yesterday for a short visit with liter-
ary friends.
Painter Ostcrbanks is retouching the
military school, and the residence (if Mr.
Stiles Curtis.
Mrs. Wm. J. Dignan of New Haven, is
spending a few days with her sister, Mrs.
J. M. Kilboy.
Artist Charley Smith is now painting
the large new house of A. A. Chinery, J r.,
on Catharine street.
Old Hugh Midity has gotten us again.
Why don’t the President turn the rascally
clerk of the weather out?
An “important and thriving industry”
in Stamford, according to the Advocate, is
"working the growler.”
Mrs. John Hecker died at Asbury Park
yesterday. Her remains will be brought
to Darien for interment.
Mrs. Coon of the U. S. Patent office,
Washington, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Joseph Cox, on Roton Hill.
‘.W. B. Rider & Son will superintend
the new system of sewers which are to be
constructed in Port Chester.
Among the recent arrivals at Maple-
wood, in Pittsfield, Mass., were ex-Scnator
E. J. Hill and wife, of Norwalk.
Mrs. Charles T. Leonard and daughter,
go to Canada the first of August, thence
returning via the White mountains.
“Brick.” Pomeroy, the famous Copper-
head editor, is rusticating in Connec-
ticut, principally along the Connecticut
river.
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Rogers, of Norwich,
N. Y., are guests of their daughter, Mrs.
Rev. C. E. Torrey, at No. 19 Berkeley
street.
Mrs. George Edwards of Washington,
was in town last week. She is spending
the summer with her father’s family in
Darien.
The gambling places of Bridgeport have
been shut up for several nights through
the work of ex—Alderman Roonan and the
chief of police.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Peck of Flushing,
L. 1., are spending the summer at the
residence of his nephew Thos. Peck, Jr.
on East avenue.
Mr. M. T. Pritchard, master of Comius
School, of Boston, one of the largest edu-
cational institutions in Massachusetts,
spent Sunday in town.
A horse belonging to Thomas Cornwall
ran {away with a horse rake yesterday on
the Rocks road,badly scratching the driver
who fell under the machine.
Patrick Foley an aged resident of East
Bridgeport, fell from a fourth story win—
dow to the sidewalk Sunday night, and
was almost instantly killed.
Investors should not fail to read the adv.
in another column calling for sealed pro—
posals for the purchase of first mortgage
bonds of the Stamford Gas-light Co.
Our much abused borough fathers are
justly entitled to the public gratitude for
their garbage reform, and all our citizens
should aid them to their fullest extent.
Pile up your dead cats Mid debris,
The borough will cart them off fris.
Don’t litter the gutter
Or people will sputter—
It’s something they don’t like to sis.
The East Norwalk school house has an
attack of shingles,—is being treated to
a new roof.
Mr. J. J. Walsh was down to his office
Saturday last, for the first time since he
was injured. ‘
The Independents and the Mt. Pleasants
played ball on the Fair ground, Saturday,
the former winning, 6 to 3.
Chas. H. Seymour, with W. H. Lyon &
Co., of New York, is visiting friends and
relatives in town. Mr. Seymour’s family
are with him.
The fifty-five thousand dollars of South
Norwalk four per cent. water bonds were
bid off Monday by Blake Bros., of New
York, for 105.59.
Frank E. Williams and Miss Alma M.
Sartwell were united in marriage at the
Baptist parsonage Saturday night by the
Rev. C. E. Torrey.
It took twenty-two cars to transport the
picnickers from St. Mary’s Church to Par-
lor Rock, Tuesday. About fifteen hun-
dred tickets were sold.
Miss Florence Halloway, an accom-
plished musician of Harlem, N. J ., is the
guest of Miss Alice Hallock on Quintard
avenue, South Norwalk.
Adam Miller, to whom the contract for
building South Norwalk’s new reservoir
was awarded, has given a bond of $10,000
for the faithful performance of the work.
Judge Geo. A. Davenport was in town
yesterday, and although at the ripe old
age of eighty-two, his natural force was in
no way abated, especially when discussing
his local bank stock investments—Record.
Mondays and Thursdays are the days
for public admission to Brooks’ farm, It
has become a favorite drive for the elite
of Norwalk, New Canaan and Stamford.
Mrs. Canfield, widow of the late Au-
thony Canficld, and her son-in-law and
his family, of Brooklyn. returned to Nor-
walk Monday, from a week’s sojourn at
Bell Island.
W. B. Rider has just placed in his office
in South Norwalk, one of the finest clocks
in the town. It is a Seth Thomas clock
and is a beautiful piece of mechanism,
costing $112.
Chief Engineer Osborne of the House-
tonic railroad and his draughtsman C. A.
Morse were in town last Friday, on bus-
iness connected with the rebuilding of the
docks at Wilson's Point.
Two weeks ago Mr. Charles J. Turner
of Cleveland, Ohio was married to the
same Danbury women from whom he was
divorced ten years before, and whose
maiden name was Hawthorne.
Mr. Winthrop Tweedy of Danbury, who
is a special favorite in Norwalk society, is
said to have entered Yale college at the
early age of sixteen, and has now graduated
as an Esculapius with high honors.
Billy Mullen, who has been a life long
employee of Ex-U. S. Treasurer Hyatt at
the Horse Railway stables, has just dis-
charged himself from his old employer,
and is now a gentleman of elegant leisure.
A long, shrill, unearthly shriek startled
the residents in the neighborhood of the
bridge just before midnight Friday night.
It proved to have been given by Bob.
Riley, who had succeeded in getting him-
self into a fight.
The proposed railroad from New Pres-
ton to Lake Waramaug is now almost an
assured fact. An enthusiastic meeting
was held at New Preston last Tuesday
evening, and about $15,000 of the $20,000
needed was subscribed. '
Mr. Haviland, proprietor of the Old
Well Hotel has rented his cottage on Bell
Island to Mr. Thomas White and family
of Ridgefield, who will occupy it this
week. Mrs. White is a sister of R. J.
Walsh, secretary of state.
A buggy containing Mr. and Mrs. Cun-
ningham and two children broke down by
the collapsing of a wheel on Main street,
Saturday afternoon, unceremoniously
dumping the occupants into the gutter.
Nobody was hurt, however.
' R. L. Ells, the popular ice man, by his
promptness, good weight and fine quality
of his ice, keeps all his delivery wagons
on the road constantly busy from morning
till night, making our suffocating commun-
ity as comfortable as possible.
Edwin Wilcox has been employed by
Contractors Miller and Carpenter as fore-
man on the construction of the new South
Norwalk reservoir. He set a large gang
of men at work Monday clearing the
grounds and erecting buildings.
Mrs. Gunning is reported to be in a
much improved mental condition, but her
overwrought and Shattered bodily system
is little—better. Her mother expects to
remove her to the familyhome at Sara-
toga by the end of the present month-
The authorities should keep 'an eye on
the saloon on the turnpike, near the sand
bank, A crowd of drunken men and. boys
were seen Sunday in the lot opposite ' the
place, rushing the “growler” for all
it was worth.
NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1889.
While the state fair is in session at Meri-
den this fall there will be a four-days’
shooting tourney under the auspices of the
Parker gun club. All the shooting clubs
of the state will be invited to participate
and there will be individualzcontests.
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Mrs. Wright, who formerly occupied
the George N. Ells house, on West avenue,
has returned to Nor-walk, and is reported
to be negotiating with Jeweler Spencer
for the rental of his pretty residence on
Belden avenue for a genteel boarding
house.
EmAlderman John D. Kimmey is enter-
taining at his beautiful residence on West
avenue the following guests from New
York : Mrs. Lida Gedncy, Mrs. Eliza
Munsell and Miss Sadie Munsell, Mr. and
Mrs. Gilbert Falconer and Master Jeffrey
Falconer and Miss Mamie Hoyt.
It is a curious coincidence that a certain
Wall street journal has been mailed regu-
larly to the members of the Connecticut
legislature, since adjournment. The sus—
picion, started we believe by the Commit,
that sundry members retired from the
legislative railroad struggle wealthy, must
have reached Wall street.-—Record.
A story is going the rounds, that David
Whetstine of Bridgeport was one of a fish-
ing party at Newtown last week. He
caught what he supposed was a large eel
and sent it to the hotel to be cooked for
his supper. What was his surprise on
hearing from the cook that they were net
in the habit of cooking water snakes.
Miss Nellie M. Welton of Waterbury,
expects to visit Mi! Frederick Bettsv
family, and Miss Kate Anderson of Brook-
lyn the family of Mr. Charles C. Betts,
early in August. It will be remembered
that these two spirited young ladies made
the tour of Europe together and alone, .
last year. __
W. A. Countryman, of the editorial staff
of the Hartford Post, and secretary of the
staterpress association,has been appointed
chief clerk of the state bureau of labor
statistics by Commissioner Hotchkiss, at a
salary of $1,800. Countryman’s many
newspaper friends will congratulate both
him and the labor bureau.
The Norwalk Gaznrrn, now in its 90th
year has been throwing aside its old-fashion
clothes, and come out in an entirely differ-
ent make up. The paper has been changed
into a six column quarto, and other
arrangements completed that will make
the old GAZETTE scintillate in every de—
partment'with journalistic brilliancy, as it
never did before—Stamford Record
The latest advices from the Treasury
Department at Washington are to the
effect that our good democratic friend
Relyea has fallen into Sheriff Toner’s
habit of bathing. How in Great Caesar’s
name is the democratic party going to
“get together”if such important leaders
in it are guilty of such undemocratic -
practices ? -
In future whenever you come across a
tough yarn in these columns you will be
in doubt who wrote it. The editor is not
unskilled in that line but he cannot rival
Geo. S. Williams’ fertile ima ination, and
on July 1, John G. Beck ey took the
assistant editor’s chair. With such a trio
in one newspaper office you may expect
some fish stories, dog stories, etc., will be
slightly exaggerated—Canaan News.
Rev. Howard S. Clapp has just returned
from his lougand tedious voyage around
the Horn and up to California. He came
home overland by rail from San Francisco.
Mrs. Clapp was visiting at New Rochelle,
when surprised by a telegram from Lime
Rock that her husband was ,at home im—
patiently awaiting her return. The genial
“parson” is said to have been greatly
improved and benefitted by his long ocean
voyage—Record.
The August Century will contain a
“symposium” on wood engraving, including
a number of papers written and illustrated
by agroup of well known engravers. The
articles are “Wood Engravers in Camp,” by
Frank French; “Originality in Wood En—
raving,” by Elbridge Kingsley; “Painter
ngraving,” by W. B. Closen, and “The
New School of Engraving,” by John P.
Davis. Fourteen wood engravings of un-'
usual interest are contributed to the series.
William Collins, of Norwalk, was in.
consultation with Capt. Nash Wednesday
evening with regard to catering for 00. G
during the encampment. He remained in
town over night, the guest of his sisters,
the Misses Collins of the telephone office.
Mr. Collins is one of the most popular
restauranters of Norwalk and if the local
militia secure him they will be assured of
good fare during their outing at Niantic.
He will cater for Co. F, of Norwalk.—
Danbury Press. ~
There is one thing we like about the
N orwalk and thatGaza'r'ra is the disposition
always to give credit to contemporaries
from whose columns items are "lifted.”
That is true journalism. The average
reader doesn’t care whether a certain item
is original with a certain paper or'iiot. If
the item in question is good and readable,
the reader is satisfied. Yet there are
some newspapers, not so very remote
either. which are not so scrupulous in
little matters of this sort—Republican.
A Building, Loan and Investment Asso-
ciation was organized in. South Norwalk
Wednesday evening, and the following
officers Were elected ':-—President, Nelson
Taylor, J r,; vice-president, Charles F,
Hallock; secretary, ex-Editor Richard H.
Golden; treasurer, Nelson Taylor; direc-
tors,Chri‘stain‘ Swartz, Matthew Corbett, ‘
Franklin A. Smith,‘ Henry Hoffman, Robt.
A. McDonald, Miner Randall, Samuel B.
Sherwood and Edwin Wilcox.
Considerable complaint comes from the
neighborhood of the Rocks road, of the
disgraceful and intolerable Sunday orgies,
fights and drunken carousals of the Ital-
ians that infest that section. If these
unregenerate heathen will not respect the
sanctity of the Sabbath, they should be
compelled to respect the rights and sensi-
bilities of the civilized dwellers in the
neighborhood.
Secretary of State R. J. Walsh, and
rich. Asa Smith, of Norwalk, commis-
sioners on the Gunning insolvent estate,
met here on Saturday to receive claims
against the estate. This was the last
cummissioners’ meeting for that purpose.
Over $40,000 of claims were presented.
The commissioners will meet next on
November 2d for the purpose of hearing
proofs of the claims presented.
The board of managers who have charge
of the building of the new state hospital
for soldiers to be erected in Darien, met
at Fitch’s Home, Wednesday, the Gover-
mor being present, also General Camp and
‘ the State Treasurer. Work on the hos-
pital and chapel will be commenced as
soon as the details are settled. About
$30,000 will be expended on the hospital
and chapel.
A meeting is‘reported to have been held
at Attorney Seymour’s office Monday
night to consider the question as to
whether any serious notice should be
taken of the Record’s news item anent the
borough sewer bond fund. As every one
oficially connected therewith unites in the
statement that no loss has been sustained
by the boroughit would seem that that
ought to settle whatever gossip or sus-
picions to the contrary that have been
afloat. -
Commodore Francis Burritt, of South
Norwalk recently said to 9. Bridgeport
News reporter: “We are ready to match
the Rival against any boat from twenty to
twenty-two feet in length, "jib and main—
sail rigged. in the United States for any
sum from $250 to $1,000 a side. I will
match the Amateur, designed, rigged and
sailed by myself against any boat in the
United States from twenty-six to thirty
feet in length, water line measurement,
ifor a like amount.”
Daniel Hommedieu is having a three
sixty brick buildiugferected on Washing-
ton street, East Norwalk, near the bridge.
The first floor will be used by himself for
a grocery store. The second and third
floors will be flats. This will be the first
brick building over erected in East Nor-
walk. Two other buildings of about the
same size will be built adjoining this One.
One of them will be built by D. T. Mur-
phy and the other by J. H. King and W.
H. Lawton, both wooden structures.
Through sleeping cars for Great Bar-
rington, Stockbridge, Lenox and Pittsfield
will be run from Bridgeport at 11.45 p. m.,
or on arrival of the 9.30 train from New
York, every Saturday, commencing July
20th, by the Housat‘onic railroad. This
train will be run on Saturday nights only
and will stop at all stations between
Bridgeport and Pittsheld. For the accom-
modation of passengers the sleeping cars
will be at the depot by 9 o’clock. Tickets
can be obtained of the conductor on the
train.
Oyster growers are putting down shells
in a lively manner this season, says the
Bridgeport News, owing to the oysters
having commenced to spawn two weeks
earlier than last year. This is due to
the mild winter we had. The planters
report that there has been a very good
_set of barnacles and mussels, all of which
argues well for the proliflcness of the
oyster fry. A good oyster set means a
great deal to the oyster planters. A
poor setting means dull business for a.
year when such a crop is marketed.
George R. Weed, of Danbury, formerly
of Norwalk, was in town last week calling
on friends and indulging in reminiscential
conversation with John Buxton, with
whom, as our readers "may remember, he
used to go down to Roton Point and in-
dulge in surf bathing, to their own intense
delight as well as to the amazement and
amusement of the assembled pleasure
seekers, making the motion of the tide
belie the predictions of the almanacs, and
illustrating not exactly “the long and the
s'iiort of it,” but the thick and the thin of
i .
On Friday a train on the M. & W.- road
jumped the rails on a bridge over the Con-
solidated road near Meriden, wrecking
the engine and four cars. Engineer
Michael Ledwith was injured ab out the
back and head, Fireman FitzGerald had a
leg broken and back bruised, James Lynn
of Meriden, a train hand, had his back
broken and cannot live. There were
thirty passe'ngers'on the train, all of whom
escaped injury. . The road’s, loss is about
$25,000. ; The accident LWas, caused by
train wreckers who Tdrovexa spike between
the rails in the paint of - a'switch, forcing
the switch half ‘bpenand causing the train
to leave the track. : 1 ;- -. - l
. Prof. Gibsonleaves on the: 29th _ for a
two weeks cruise on his yacht. He will
have for his companion Rev. Mr. Van
Alstynes’ son George.
Peter Smith and Margaret Kozier were i
arrested in South Norwalk at 4 o’clock
Sunday morning by Officer Morton under
suspicions circumstances. They were
landed in the lockup to give them time to
repent of their sins. They were brought
before Judge Knapp Monday morning and
His Honor fined them $3. and costs each. '
The woman, not being able to pay up,
was sent to Bridgeport jail. Smith was
bailed out by Stamford friends.
A conservative and sensible judge of
real estate at Winnipauk, gives it as his
opinion that the new horse railway open-
ing up of'that beautiful and picturesque
suburb, has appreciated real estate fully
twenty-five per cent. Then, with a sci-i-
ions afterthought, be qualified his state-
ment with the remark, “At least all our
real estate there would be so enhanced, in
my opinion, were it not for the many
drinking saloons that disgrace and ruin
us there.” It is estimated that fully one-
third of every month’s pay roll at the two
Winnipank factories goes into the drum
shops there.
That General Couch has not forgotten
how to shoot, that he isn’t afraid to shoot,
and that he knows just when to shoot, he
demonstrated on Fridaylast, when, after
repeated depredations on his hennery,
Billy Mullen’s big bull-dog came prowling
around and destroyed several more chick-
ens. The General came out withhis Win-
chester and sent a ball at long range,
through the dog’s head. Another dog, a
strange setter, which accompanied the
bull-dog on his foraging expeditions ran
off howling, but received three balls in his
hinder quarters from the General’srepeater
before he got out of sight. The strange
dog ran to Greenwood’s store where ofiicer
Morehouse despatched him. The General,
in putting these dangerous nuisances out
of the way, proves himself a public bene-
factor.
Lester J. Bradley, the ex-passenger and
freight agent of the New Haven & Derby
rail road committed suicide at his home
in New Haven, Friday, by taking Paris
green. Not long ago Bradley was dis-
charged from the employ of the Railroad
company and was subsequently arrested
on the charge of appropriating the com-
pany’s money and making false entries on
the books, and at the time of his death
was out on bail, having been released
from prison a few days before. It is
thought that his disgrace so preyed upon
his mind that be determined to end his
life. A Smith & Wesson revolver was
found beneath the mattress on his bed,
indicating that if the Paris green failed to
do its deadly work the revolver would
have been resorted to. Bradley was 46
years old and leaves a family.
The well known trotting horse, Iodine,
owned jointly by Buckingham and W. B.
E. Lockwood, Jr., immortalized himself
again Monday morning. “Buck” had him
out for a drive, hitched to a light car-
riage. On turning the corner of Knight
and Wall streets at a three minute clip the
carriage upset, Buck rolled out through
the back curtain, and the horse started on
a run with the axle of the upturned buggy
striking his legs at every jump. He was
caught by a stableman, however before he
had gone many yards, and taken to his
barn. The carriage was a wreck. The
horse’s hind legs were severely cut and
bruised, injuries which will necessitate
keeping him under treatment for some
time, greatly to the disappointment of his
owners who contemplated sending him to-
morrow to Trenton, N. J. to be entered
for heavy circuit trotting. He was ex-
pected to make 2:22. in which case he
would be worth probably $5,000 this sum:
mer. Iodine, it will be remembered, ran
away from his driver in a race at Danbury
a few weeks ago, cutting one of his hind
legs somewhat, whereupon his owner,
Mr. Saunders became so disgusted that he
sold the animal to the Lockwood boys
for $800.
Attorney John S. Seymour was in bad
luck Tuesday. He was seriously ill him-
self from over indulgence in rest at Bell
Island, some one enticed his pet dog
away, and worst of all, some villian
milked his cow and then let her out of the
pasture so that twenty-four hours of hunt
and worry over the lost animal was added
to his other burden of sorrows—Record.
That cow is destined to become histori-
cal. A few nights since fricnd Seymour
was startled from his slumbers by a bellow
and then a crash like a steamship
crunching into an iceberg, and, on getting
out, what was his astonishment to see
his cow fiercely and frantically dashing
about the Captain Lamb lot with her
head fastened deep down in a swill
keg, which the terrified and blinded
beast could not dislodge. Getting that
keg off the cow's head and horns was a
far more difficult task than carrying a case
before Judge Selleck, and it was a serious
question which end of the infuriated
bovine he should commence dislodging
operations upon. By the alert use of
ropes and poles the young barrel was at
length dislodged, when it was found the
cow'had thrust her head down into it for
provender and the cask adhering, she had
blindly plunged out of the Seymour en-
closure, through the Lamb lot fence, and
then went tearing wild as above narrated.
GAZET
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR
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NUMBER 30;
Sheriff Toner is county agent for the
Champion fertilizer and among others to
whom he has sold the article is Miss Julia
Lockwood. She had it applied to a field
of corn on Dry Hill road and the result is
such as to challenge the attention of all
passcrs by. It is conceded to be the fair-
est and most luxuriant piece of corn any-
where about and the general verdict is the
Champion fertilizer did it.
Anent the Fairfield 00. National, and
the Fairfield 00. Savings banks trouble,
now claimed to be adjusted, comes a new
rumor that an apparent deficit of some
$40,000 has been discovered in the sewer
accounts of last year.—Record.
The above is misleading. Elsewhere
it will be seen by a sternly prepared letter
from the ex-clerk of the borough and
signed by all of last year’s board, that
they seem to feel that the “rumor” re-
ferred to, in some occultway, casts an im—
putation upon theintegrity of their official
actions. Such surely is not the case, and
no such rumor is or has been afloat. The
basis of the rumor referred to was the
f. temporary use made of a portion of the
’sewer fund by the late cashier of the
Fairfield County Bank. It resulted in no
defalcation or deficit, and yet all fair
minded men acquainted with the facts
agree that the manner of its custody and
use, was irregular and improper, and that
is all, we are sure, that our esteemed con-
temporary intended to imply in the above
brief p aragraph.
The Neptune club is undecided regard-
ing its annual cruise. During the last
three years blue fish have been conspicu —
ous for their absence on the usual fishing
grounds of this popular club. Its new
Commodore informs us that the local fish-
ermen in those water, relate a similar
experience about twenty years since, when
these gamey fish abandoned their usual
haunts, and failed to appear in sufficient
numbers to make good fishing, for four or
five years. Conflicting reports regarding
the quality of fishing there this season
have reached the officers of the club. At
its last annual meeting it was voted not to
sail again until this favorite sport was
reported as first-class. In order thatthc
exact state of facts may be learned, Vice~
Commodore Smith, of Winsted. has left
his numerous clients to their own resources
and taken up his abode for the two com-
ing weeks at Cottage city. What the
Vice-Commodore doesn’t know about this
sport is not worth learning, and when his
report is received at headquarters, definite
action will be taken by the club.
We had hoped to announce in this issue
of the GAZETTE the exact time when the
electric current would be turned on for
the first time in the new lamps of South
Norwalk. Owing to many little unforseen
obstacles to be surmounted no one can tell
just when the trial will be made, but it
will be some time this week. A reporter
visited the works yesterday and found
Superintendent Hanford and his men
hard at work getting things in shape.
The engine is fifty horse power and is run
by gas. it was built in Philadelphia but
part of its castings were made in Ger-
many. The machinery runs very smooth-
ly and noiselessly. The engine will run
two dynamos which will furnish enough
electricity for one hundred and forty
lamps. Seventy—three lamps is all the
present contract calls for, but more lamps
will be ordered from time to time.
The lamps are 8000 candle power,
and the wire over Which the electric
current will pass is made of copper---the
best in use. About thirty miles of wire
have been strung. The lamps were
tested in the engine room one night last
week with a Very satisfactory result.
By the kindness of Will Rider. Jr.,
assistant engineer of the new reservoir, 9.
Record reporter was driven up to
Huckleberry Hill Thursday, and suown
over the site of the new reservoir. The
dam is located about 900 feet below the
Wilton and New Canaan turnpike. It
will be 600 feet long, 200 feet wide at the
base and 15 feet at the top. It will be
built of earth and be made solid by the
puddling process. The center of he dam
will be strengthened by masonry. The
dam will be thirty one feet high. A'waste
way will be constructed at one end of the
dam so that the water will not run over
the main part of the dam. The turnpike
will have to be raised 17 feet to place it
above the water line. The filling Will be
made of loam and gravel, and will be
utalized as a filter. ' _
A few hundred feet above the pike is a
valley, across which a dike 300 feet long
will have to be built and about nine feet
high in the center to keep the water from
escaping into the Silver Mine valley. In
case of a great flood the water wrll find a
good egress at this point and Will rush
down Silver Mine creek, thus protecting
the dam from any sudden or unusual
pressure. The reservoir when completed
will make one of the nicest lakes in this
part of the country. It will be nearly half
amile across at its widest part and be-
tween four and five miles in circumfer—
ence. Its capacity will be about five
hundred million allons. There is no
danger of South orwalk, ever suffering
from a drouth with this body of water.
The city’s facilities for extinguishing fires
will also be increased. An. eighteeminch
ipewill be laid from the dam to connect
with the city’s pipes at the lower reservoir,
thus increasing the water pressure 110
pounds to the. square inch. With this
new pressure water can be thrown to the
tops of houses in the most elevated parts
of the city. This will be a great boom for
South Norwalk.—-Record.
Norwalk Chronicler