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VOLGME? LhéX‘XIX. NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1889. NUMBER 34.
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a Gr 27 Candidates for admission to the Storrs Henry Wilton, 64, ran along the bridge The annual reunion of the 28th regi- The children of St. Paul’s Sunday The BridgeportISunday Item, after an
Norwalk ' age 6. Agricultural school will be examined Sat- at Naugatuck Junction, Monday morning, ment, C. V., will be held at Seaside Park, School will hold a lawn party on the existence of two months, has given up the
_____/._-__———'—————-———— urday, 30th fast, in room 50, capitol build— ahead 0f the Naugatuck train, which he Bridgeport, on Wednesday, the 28th day Rectory grounds this, Wednesday, after- ghost. Neighbor Hills made a livelylittle
TERMS IFSUISEIIPTIDI. ing, Hartford; examinations begin at 10 wished to board in order to ride to his 0f August. A business meeting will be noon. If stormy the picnic will be held paper of it, but he had an unfortunate
penchant for sticking to facts. Bridge-
w Two Dollars per year, in (identicafi
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Each subsequent insertion, up to 4 times, .50
Half inch, half of above rates. . _
One column, ordinary adv., onetime, - 19.00
One column, reading matter, one time, 29.00
Loans in reading matter columns, per line, .20
Births, Marriages and Deaths inserted Iree.
Advertising of Funeral Notices, - - 1.00
Liberal terms to yearly and half-yearly advertis-
ers, and ten per cent. discount on all advs. pres
paid for three months or over. .
THE GAZETTE JOB‘ PRINTING DEPARTMENT is.
equipped with the best facilities for turning out
First Class Work of every description. . All orders
for Printing. Engraving and Book Binding. execu-
ted promptly, and will be as well and reasonably
done as anywhere.
LOCAL I TEJlIiS'.
(a? A wealthy London merchant gives
the secret of his business success as fol-
lows: “I always feel happy when I am
advertising, for then I know that, wak—
ing or sleeping, I have a strong though
silent orator working for me; one who'-
never tires, never makes mistakes, anti
who is certain to enter the households
from which, if aéi-Eiiz'lzifi‘yjtiapefimus't
come.” To segQré‘éthe;sprvieeajpf such
an agent as this tshre'w’d,fiergili'anti’reg:
ferred to, advertise iugTrjnGaZ‘iiTTiti '
is read by everybodyfiliiléaud:aboiitiaNxor
walk.”
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Miss Mary Malloryis',Stopping in town;f
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Mr. and Mrs. Boi'rquglls argatmiegang
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Gegorge Frederickgjgeitt’é’ $.11?ng 'fi'oin’l,
Cleveland. 5! ‘j_ " ' " " “
Theébicyclc club went out in force for a
run Monday night.
Miséi Julia Lockwood is at the Buitcd
States Hotel, Saratoga. '4? ’ .
Mr. Ira Cole and wife are taking a trip
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The latest slang salute is “Pawn your
face-and lose the ticket.”
«Jacob Turk, wife and son, of New York,
ge visiting old friends in town.
I A. M. Clark, of Stamford, has been en-
gaged as organist of St. Paul’s church.
Mr. Joseph P. Moody has purchased an
interest in a large music store at Syracuse,
N. Y.
Mr. R. L. McPherson, of Brooklyn, is
visiting Mr. W. E. Duncan, of South Nor-
walk.
Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Keeler are at Cot-
tage City, with A. J. Meeker a close sec-
and.
Miss Clementine L. Cholwell has re-
turned from a trip to the Green Moun-
tains of Vermont.
Mr. and Mrs. Buckingham Hoyt were
guests at their mother’s, Mrs. James A.
Hoyt, over Sunday.
The hosts of friends of J. T. Prowitt,
will be gladto learn that he has recovered
from his recent illness.
The Baptist Sunday School picnicked
in the grove in the rear of the church and
on the Green yesterday.
Four brass bands, three hand organs,
one monkey and a fight made things live-
ly about town one day last week.
The companion steamer to the Cape
Charles will soon be launched and put on
the New York and Norwalk route.
Mrs. Susan Nichols, once a resident of
Norwalk, and a sister of Mrs. Joseph
Hubbell, died at Bloomfield, N. J., last
week.
The foreman of the Amogeronc Hose
and Hook and Ladder company, of Green-
wich, visited the Norwalk fire department
Tuesday.
Col. Stevenson’s private secretary, A.
J. Porter, is enjoying a month’s vacation
in Canada, Saratoga and other resorts for
the aristocrats.
In the absence of our soldiers this week
there is no serious occasion for alarm lest
our town be invaded—we still have the
Salvation army. _
Last Sunday the .Rev. W. ‘Richardson
preached both morning and evening at St.
Paul’s church and in the afternoon at the
chapel at West Norwalk.
H. Hoffman, Jr., of South Norwalk,
has been granted a patent for a door latch
handle, and has assigned the same -to the
Norwalk Lock company.
Mrs. G. Willis White has taken her
bright and active little nephew, Master
Ward Gregory, off on an excursion trip to
the White Mountain regions.
CompanicsIaud B, and the band, of
the let Conn. regiment heavy artillery,
will hold their 20th annual reunion in
Waterbury on Wednesday of next week.
John Wiedenhammer, the trombone
player of Wheeler & Wilson band departed
from Bridgeport last week, for Milwaukee,
Wis., where he has accepted a position in
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the Bijou opera house in that city.
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Our journalistic friend, W. S. Moody,
Jr., had a four column “pome” in the
Evening Sun of the 12th inst.' He is do-
ing some very clever literary work on the
Sun.
Mr. H. Decker. formerly designer for
the Norwalk Lock company, now of the
Brooklyn Gas Fixture company, of Brook-
lyn, N. Y., spent Sunday with friends in
town.
Arthur B. Underwood, of the Bridgeport
Farmer, has returned from a. visit to the
Paris exposition—or somewhere out that
way, where he has been spending his
vacatiOn.
We have received a copy of the Men-
treal Gazette, of the 16th, inst., in which
we find that C. A. Reynolds and wife, of
Norwalk, are guests at the Albion Hotel
in that city.
When the question of moving the county
jail comes up again the man who wants to
score a point will suggest that as a move
of economy, the county build a wall
around Daubury.
Delia Taylor, a colored girl employed at
the Roth 8.: Goldschmidt corset factory
' had one ear nearly torn off and received
other severe injuries by falling down the
q: elevator shaft on Monday.
“A Bridgeport dressmakcr shook hands
with a live lobsterthe other day and ex-
pressed herself surprised to learn that the
animal carries its teethiu its hands. She
is now learning to sew left-handed.
firterrible stench, with the peculiar and
specific odors of a pig-stye is complained
of by residents in the vicinity of the Nor-
walk hotel. It seems to come from some
tenement on River or Cross street.
Edward J. Walker, of Stamford has
been bound over to the next term of the
Superior court to answer to the charge of
murdering his brother, James William
Walker, in a bar room fight a few days
ago.
Editor Jones of the Weslporter is still
secretary of the State Fireinen’s associa-
tion, having been re-elceted at the con-
vention last week. The association knows
which side of its bread is sure to fall bot-
tomside up.
Mr. George F. Quintard has been ap-
pointed night watchman during the recon-
struction going on at the Bank of Nor-
walk. His sou Arthur has become a
“commercial traveler” for a New York
grocery house.
The semi-centennial celebration of the
introduction of Odd Fellowship into Con-
uecticut, will be celebrated in New Haven
on Tuesday Sept. 3d, with imposing cere-
monies. Norwalk and South Norwalk
will send large delegations.
John O’Connell, 22, of Waterbury, for-
merly of Westerly, R. I., while drunk lay
down on the New England track in a dark
spot near Jackson street Saturday night
and was run over by an east-bound freight
train. His body was horribly mangled.
—F. W. Smith has had a telephone
placed in his market for the convenience
of those of his patrons who cannot make
it convenient to call personally.
Ben. Birdsall formerly of Norwalk and
New Canaan, was in town yesterday. Ben
is in company with B. J. Sturges in New
York in the publication of the Real Es-
tate Journal, a neat looking and ably con-
ducted sheet devoted to real estate inter-
ests.
Col. Henry Huss, of Mount Vernon ; Col.
Blakeman, of Shelton : and P. Wade, Jr.,
the committee of the Seventeenth C. V.,
last week located the position of that
regiment’s monument on Cemetery hill,
Gettysburg. The monument will probably
be dedicated on October 15th.
The box that was placed in the corner-
stone of St. John’s church at Bridgeport
in 1836 was opened at the rooms of the
historical society in that city Friday and.
the contents found to be well preserved.
The box was of lead with an engraved
copper plate faced with silver.
Patrick Shaw, 8. dumper employed at
the coal run at Wilson’s Point, in dodging
a scoop full of coal on Friday afternoon,
fell from the run into a coal bin 9. consid-
erable distance below and crushed his
skull. He died Saturday morning. He
leaves a wife and a large family.
Wm. Stevens, late salesman for C. B.
DeKlyn, has entered into a co-partncrship
with George Wendling, the baker, who is
also a graduate of DeKlyn’s bakery, and
will push for a liberal share of the public
patronage. Both are popular and capable
men and will without doubt succeed.
Labor Day, (Sept. 2,) Will be observed
by the Hat ’Finishers’ association with a
picnic on the Fair Ground, at which a
varied programme will be presented, con-
sisting of games, contests, base ball match,
etc. As Labor Day will be a holiday it is
safe to predict that there will be a large
attendance and a good time.
home in Waterbury. The train made so
much noise that Wilton became confused
and jumped from one track to the other,
landing in front of the locomotive and
was killed.
Editor James of the Thomaston Express
is enjoying his summer vacation and if
the story of the awful goings-on in his of-
fice as reported by his substitute, is true
there is no doubt that, as the said substi-
tute suggests, “if the editor does not re-
turn from his vacation soon he will not
have any material with which to relate
the story of his trip.”
Howard Staples, secretary of the Bridge-
port Steamboat Co., Photographer L. Fari-
ni, and others, are on Caukeen’s Island,
camping out for a week. One of the party
reports three bushels of round clams
caught near the island on Tuesday, and a
haul by seine Wednesday which yielded
seventeen sea bass and bluefisli, the heavi-
est weighing three pounds.
Louis Frances, who‘ was recently; re-
leased from jail, took'the 'war path‘ again
Saturday evening, gotfull' of something
awful and was promptly .jugged by the
police. He was brb‘uglit before Judge
Selleck Monday morning and sentenced to
pay a fine of one dollar. and costs, in de-
fault of which he went to jail under the
chaperouage of Officer DeForest.
St. John’s lodge F. and A. M. will hold
a special éommunication to-mori'cw even-
ing as‘a lodge of instruction, when work
in the third degree will be exemplified.
On Monday evening, Sept. 2d, the lodge
will, by invitation of Jerusalem lodge in
Ridgefield, go to that town and work the
third degree, it being the occasion of the
dedication of the new lodge room.
Another remarkable instance of “grand
father’s clock”.is given by the Canaan
News. John Drummond of Lakeville,
died recently at the age of 76. At his
bedside huug his watch which he had car-
ried for forty years. The minute Mr-
Driimmond died the watch stopped, al-
though it had been wound at the usual
hour and was not half run down.
Ansonia puts a chip on its shoulder and
struts up to Bridgeport like this :
Ansonia is a small town, with perhaps
10,000 inhabitants, and the youngest town
in the state. But we’ll bet our bottom
dollar that compared according to size
and age there is more business, more grit,
more push, more enterprise, more public
Spirit, more Yankee goalieadativeness in
Ansonia than in Bridgeport. So there
now—Sentinel.
Sidney K. Spencer, who for the past
seventeen years has been a conductor on
the main line of the Housatouic railroad,
has resigned to go into business at Pitts-
field, Mass. “Sid” has an innumerable
host of friends along the line of the road,
as well as in this region, (he was the first
conductor of the new Pittsfield express
trains running to South Norwalk) and he
will take with:him many good wishes for
success and prosperity in his new field.
The editor of the Kansas City Times
seems to have the same trouble as a great
many others. He says : “What is really
needed, is a commission to find out why
it is easier to thread a cambric needle with
a three-humped dromedary than to . get
your mail matter from the Kansas City
post oflice. It is easy enough to get some-
body elSe’S letters, but the man who can
get his own is a double-mascotted lulu.”
A day or two ago Hon. Nathaniel
Wheeler drove his chestnut gelding, “C.
T. L.” to a road wagon a mile in 226%, at
Seaside Park, Bridgeport. Mr. Wheeler
weighed 197% pounds, and the wagon 130
pounds. This is said to be without pre-
cedent. The time was taken by eight
watches so there can be no mistake about
the genuineness of the record. Mr. Wheel-
er has promised to give an exhibition trot
with "C. T. L.” at the meeting of the Gen-
tlemen’s Driving association this week.
There is to be a siege,or a bloody battle,
or an earthquake, or a yellow fever epi-
demic or something equally awful at the
Niantic encampment. There is no doubt
about this, for a glimpse into the camp
chest of a trio of printers that the GAZETTE
office is deprived of this week, indicated
as much. There was a deadly array of
“ammunition” tenderly packed away in
quart bottles that betrayed the fact that
the boys apprehended a terrible time of
some kind. ____
Mr. E. A. Tibbals, whom everybody re-
members as the gigantic snare drummer
in the Wheeler & Wilson band, is in jail
in Bridgeport, and singular as it may
seem, he is in “during good behavior.”
When he begins to do any of those things
that generally lead to jail he will be set at
liberty. He is the assistant jailer at the
institution, and sent word over by Ofiicer
DeForest that he would like certain of his
Norwalk friends to call and see him, as he
has several spare rooms in which to lodge
them, and he will make it pleasant. He
says those who call there find it difficult to
tear themselves away for at least 30 days,
which speaks well for the genial hospitality
of the institution.
held at 11 o’clock a. m. to be followed by
a shore dinner. All members of the regi-
ment are earnestly invited to attend and
bring their wives with them.
Tliejsecond open air concert of the ser-
ies was given on Monday evening by
Heine’s band, from the coop half way to
the top of the Donovan building. The
concert was an excellent one and the skill-
ful playing of the band was highly appre—
ciated by the immense crowd that block-
aded the sidewalks on either side. But it
is a miserable place to tuck a band away
for a concert.
The Bridgeport butchers learned a few
things from the N orwalk butchers a couple
of weeks ago, and are now arranging for
a barbecue of their own, to be given on
Sept. 12th, which will paralyze all compet-
itors. They will roast a whole drove of
cattle alive, besides a flock of sheep and a
school of sharks. Barnum will contribute
two elephants and a hippopotamus for the
biggest roast on earth and an army of
“All Hot” men will be on hand to feed the
hungry horde that will he in attendance.
A monstrous stuffed wild cat in the
show window of Hoyt’s shoe store attracts
considerable attention. We have it on the
authority of Mr. A. H. Hoyt that the anni-
mal attacked him one night last week in
the neighborhood of the reservoir on
Spring Hill ; that he fought the beast with
bare knuckles and put it to flight, where-
upon he gave chase, ran his catship down
and kicked it to death. The big feline
has a bad record in that locality and is
credited with having eaten three naughty
children. Wild-cats are fond of eating
naughty children.
A. S. Witherspoon of the New Haven
Journal and Courier and J. E. Burroughs
of the editorial staff of that paper were
shot at Sunday evening while seated in
the train arriving in Bridgeport at 7.30.
The train slowed up in East Bridgeport to
mak: a stop on the bridge. The pistol
shots were fired from Crescent avenue
through the car window. The glass was
shat’ered and the bullets grazed the heads
of Messrs. \Vitherspoon and Burroughs.
The train was stopped and an attempt
made to discover the assailants. It is
thought that the shots were fired by an
unsuccessful litigant.
Robert Rubeusteiu was cleaning out a
cellar in New Haven one day last week
when he found among other debris, what
he took to be a log about six feet long.
He attempted to lift it when one end of
the supposed log split open and gaped at
least a foot, disclosing two rows of glisten-
ing teeth, which snapped Viciously at
Rubensteiu’s head. The man dropped the
“log” with a yell, ran up stairs and de-
clared the devil himself was in the cellar.
An investigation revealed the fact that the
monster was a well grown alligator belong-
ing to a neighbor, "and that it had escaped
from its cage the day before and found its
way into the cellar. '
The authorities of South Norwalk Will
be very derelict in duty if they do not
take immediate steps to put a stop to nude
bathing at the docks below the bridge,
especially on Sunday when the harbor is
alive with light craft containing pleasure
parties made up largely of ladies. Last
Sunday afternoon a gang of men stripped
stark naked made a disgraceful exhibition
of themselves at that place in full view of
the passing boats and seemed to take de-
light in attracting attention to themselves
and their rowdyish actions. The police
should be instructed to yank these dirty
loafers in and they should be made an
example of.
Deputy Coroner Pond’s findiugconcern-
ing the death of Engineer Byington of the
Derby road concludes: “In this case I
think Conductor Holbrook [did what he
had a right to do and what he thought was
proper, namely, to call in his. flag when
able to proceed and to suppose that those
in charge of the extra would not travel
fast enough to run his train down. I am
also satisfied from the location of the
track, from the position of the engineer
upon his engine that had Engineer Bying-
ton taken the precaution iu rounding that
curve to slip across the cab, he would
have seen the train and not relied upon
what Conductor Philips said and jumped
from his engine.”
The first race at the Fair ground to-day
will be for first prize, harness; second,
full suit horse clothing; and third whip.
These articles were all gotten up by Mr.
P. H. Dwyer, and have attracted a large
amount of admiring attention in his show
window. The harness is gotten up in
splendid shape, of the very best material
with round reins, and solid rubber trim-
mings with gilt linings, and is indeed a
splendid prize. The suit of horse cloth-
ing isa splendid affair of heavy plaid with
white buff trimmings and embraces leg-
gings, hood, blanket, etc. The whip is of
solid whaléboue. with carved ivory handle
and gold ferrule, and the winner of either
of these three prizes will have something
to be proud of.
on Thursday. In view of the uncertainty
of the weather the picnic will be definitely
announced by the ringing of the church
bell at 1 and 3 p. m. on the day decided
upon. __
At alate hour Saturday night the at-
tention of the police was attracted by a
moving object near the large foliage bed
in the center of the triangular green near
the Methodist church. A stealthy recon-
noitre was made and the suspicious object
was found to be one of Tcrryds Co’s.
butchers who claimed he had lost a pin
and was searching for it. He went home
without finding it. '
The newspaper men of Norwalk are
getting ready to challenge the scribes of
Bridgeport toagamc of base ball to be
played some time during next month.
The Park City editors and reporters are
shy about crossing bats With their Nor-
walk brethreu since the latter came so
near defeating a semi-professional team
there some weeks ago, but it is hoped
they will muster up pluck enough to come
out on the field and let the Norwalkers
have some fun with them, even if the
score is likely to be like this :—
BRIDGEPORTS. NORWALKS.
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BASE BALI..——Thc Norwalks, since their
entrance into the Atlantic league, have
not made an impressive necord as to
scores, but it is admitted on all hands that
they are playing fine ball. Up to this
writing, (Tuesday,) they have played
seven games and lost six while the seventh
was a tie with the champions of the
league, the Newarks, the score standing 1
to 1 in twelve innings. An illustration of
the shifting nature of the base ballist’s
star of fortune is given in the fact that the
Norwalks have been beaten by the minor
teams in the league, but when they came
to tackle the strongest and foremost team
they held them down to a tie of 1 to 1 in
twelve inuiugs.—-—— The Y. M. C. A. de-
feated the Pioneer hook and ladder team
on the fair grounds on Wednesday last,
score, 26 to 6.——Tlie Independents of
Winnipaiik defeated the Actors, of New
York on the fair ground on Saturday, 15
to 3.—-—Uu Wednesday of next week the
Norwalk printers will play the Y. M. C.
A. on the fair grounds.
Our ever genial friend “Al” Relyea,
writes us from Washington to protest
against the statement that appeared in
these columns to the effect that three
beautiful Treasury girls escorted him to
the 7.20 a. m. train out of Washingtoii to
New York on a trip to Connecticut. Ho
implores us to state that it was his old
Chief Hyatt, who was thus escorted, that
he, Relyea, hasn’t been to Connecticut but
once since he was elevated to his high of-
fice by the Cleveland administration; that
he hasn’t been to see nor has he spoken to
a single pretty girl since he left our state.
This statement he confidentially informs
us, it is necessary to have made for the
peace and quiet of mind of sundry and
several fair dames hereabouts, who re-
ceived from him representations entirely
at variance with our first statement, and
that our paragraph is liable to get him into
serious diflicnlty, &c., &c., so we take it
all back and now say that it was Ex-
Treasurcr Hyatt, the old and grizzled, the
grey headed and wizzled, and not our
charming, young, rosy and beautiful Rel-
yea who was thus appropriately and gal-
lautly escorted to the cars by the three
pretty girls and we hope all of friend Rel-
yea’s flames here in Connecticut will be-
lieve it, but to us it seems “agin’ natur.”
The first series of races under the aus-
pices of the Gentlemen’s Driving associa.
tion, of Norwalk, begins to-day on the
fair grounds and lasts three days. The
races will undoubtedly attract large
crowds and there is no doubt of the suc-
cess of the enterprise. President Lock-
wood, Treasurer Woodward and Sec-
retary Glover have been indefatigable in
their efforts in behalf of the organization
and under their efficient supervision
things maybe expected to pass of smoothly
and satisfactorily. The races for today
will be first, members’ race for 2.45
horses, the prizes being, first $50 harness;
second, set of horse clothing, and third,
whip. 2.45 class, purse $200. 2.32 class,
purse $250. Thursday, free for all, trot-
ting and pacing, purse $300. 2.35 class,
purse $250. Four-year-olds, purse $100.
Friday, 2.30 class, purse $250. 2.40 class,
purse $200. The Hon. Nathaniel Wheeler
of Bridgeport has promised to exhibit his
chestnut gelding “C. T. L.” to beat the
best record to road wagon ever made on
this track. Hon. Alex Harbisou of Hart-
ford will act as starter. Music will be
furnished .- throughout the meeting by
Glover’sfand. Aspecial time table has
been pr pared on the D. &. N. road and
also oil the Winnipauk branch of the horse
ilway for the convenience of those who
esjr’e to attend the races.
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porters don’t care for facts for Sunday
reading, liencellie New York Sunday
journals’ popularity in the Park city.
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The recent death of Captain W. J. Mer-
ritt, of Norwalk has attracted wide-spread
attention and is chronicled in most of the
newspapers of the state. Concerning
Capt. Mei‘ritt’s career, the Record of last
Saturday said:
He was born in New York, and until he
became of age was with his father Capt.
Merritt who ran a packet on the North '
river. When he became 21 years of ago
his father made him a present of the sloop,
Ann Amelia which he sailed as a packet
on the North river until the fall of 1336
when he built the sloop Mary Willis,
which he ran on the river till 1840 when
at the solicitation of some of the promi-
nent citizens of Nowalk, he brough her
here and ran as a packet from the dock in
the rear of the store of Homes 8: Kcelel‘
until 1850 when the steamer Pacific was
started on the route, which broke up the
business so that he returned to the North
river again and ran her till 1853 when he
sold her to his brother Caleb and retired
from the business. For his first wife he
married Miss Mary ll. Mead, of Green—
Wicli, by whom he had teree children. two
of who— Washington sud Ephraim— sur-
vive. His second wufe was Miss Mary
E. Danaghe, of New York State, who also
survives. The funeral was held at his late
residence last Tuesday morning and the
remains was taken to Greenwich for bur-
ial, where the services were held in the
Congregational church, Rev. S. B. S. Bis-
scll and Rev. Dr. Noble officiating.
Norwalkers who desire to go to Coney
Island on a cheap and pleasant excursion
should go to Bridgeport on Saturday
morning, September 7th, and join a large
party from the line of the l-louszitouic road,
who will take the steamer Sirius at 8:30 »
o’clock for New York and Coney Island,
giving passengers five hours in New York
if they desire to stop there, or two and a
half hours at Coney Island. The fare for
the boat is only 50 cents. Wheeler (c
Wilson band will render concert music all
the way, and there will be excellent music
for dancing. The excursion is under the
management of genial Col. H. W. Wright,
of Gt. Barringtou, who is becoming famous
as a manager of big excursions, and who
will look personally after the comfort of
his patrons. Col. Wright will be remem-
bered by the Norwalk firemen who attend-
ed the paradc iii Gt. Barrington a few
years ago. The fire fighters from this
region, on their arrival there found no
reception committee, no fraternal greeting,
no attention from the home firemen what-
ever, but were left to shift for themselves.
In the course of the day a group of laddies
from :1 Norwalk company happened to
stroll into Col. Wright’s restaurant as they
were wandering aimlessly about like lost
sheep. Col. Wright gave them a cordial
welcome, invited them to call for what
they desired, free of expense, and suc-
ceeded in putting the boys in good spirits.
On finishing their repast the boys went
out and hunted up the rest of the com-
pany and their drum corps, whom they
rallied with the exclamation, “Come on
boys, we’ve found the only white man in
Gt. Barrington !” and back they wentto the
Colonel’s, where the drum corps gave a
serenade, and where the firemen remained
during the rest of their stay in town.
Our eyening contemporary’s Corps(e)
of ConsCientious and Trained Reporters
proudly pranced out Monday night and
gathered in thefollowmg:
“Glover’s band gave another delightful con-
cert in the borough last evening, playing on the
roof of the Boston store, from eight to nine
o’clock.”
Mr. Rodemeyer, musical critic, was also
on hand and summed the affair up as
follows:
“It would have been an improvement upon the
arrangement if the band had been locked up in an
air-tight cellar on the outskirts of the town.”
When critics disagree,etc.—Republz‘can.
If our lymphatic, but nevertheless es—
teemed contemporary the Republican, in
its quarrel with the evening Sentinel can
annihilate its opponent, and do it squarely
and fairly, we will take an interest in
standing by and witnessing the execution.
But if its ammunition has run solow that it
must deliberately mis-quote and distort
the sense of an extract from an exchange
in order to carry on its warfare, it should
hang out its flag of truce at once and
withdraw from the field. Its thrust in
the above is childish, far-fetched and
without point, and is calculated to place
the GAZETTE in the false attitude of hos-
tility to Glover’s baud, whereas the GA-
ZETTE made no criticism whatever of the
recent concert, its remarks being directed
against the unwise idea of stationing the
musicians in a spot where they were at a
disadvantage and the effect of their
music was spoiled, as will be readily seen
by anyone who reads the paragraph re-
ferred to, in last week’s GAZETTE, which
we here reproduce:
Glover’s baud gave another open air
concert on Monday evening from the roof
of Jerry Donovan’s corner block over a
portion of the Boston store, where the
harmony of the music was beautifully
muffled against the walls on two sides. It
would have been an improvement upon
this arrangement if the band .had been
locked up in an air-tight cellar on the out-
skirts of the town. Why not .give the
band a good place to play?
[Additional Local News on 4th_page.1
Norwalk Chronicler