GAZETTE.
ESTABLISHED 4800
VOLUME LXXXIX.
Norma/la Gazette.
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OFFICIAL BALLOTS.
It should be borne in mind that this
year the ballots to be used at the town
election are especially prescribed by law,
requiring aispecial quality of paper, desig-
nated as official paper, and requiring that
the names be printed in “capital letters of
ordinary Roman face book type, Long
Primer size.” The Gazsrrr. has procured
an abundantsupply of official ballot paper,
and has unquestionably the largest font of
Long Primer type to be found in this
town or in this part of Fairfield county.
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notice and with accuracy. It should be
remembered that ballots which do not
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LOCAL ITEMS.
May the best men win !
J .' C. Randle’s residence at Winnipauk
is being repainted.
Sherwood C. Cummings and family have
returned to N orwalk.
Mr. Arthur Earle and family return to
Colorado Springs to-day.
Rev. Mr. Sanford, of Nevada, preached
in St. Paul’s church, Sunday.
Miss Lizzie Magner, of South Norwalk,
spent Sunday with friends in the country.
The body of Clark Gruman was buried
in Riverside cemetery on Sunday after-
noon.
Editor John H. Wade is having his res-
idence on Maple street handsomely re—
painted.
Cyrus Ruseoe has bought George Mills’
oil tank wagon,and now carries on the
business.
Mr. H. P. Tracy, a prominent citizen of
Canaan, was in town on Saturday on
business.
Mr. George Reed and Miss Carrie
Mather, of West Norwalk, are soon to be
married. '
The New Orleans Picayune says “the
worst enemy of the Southern States is ig-
norance.”
Let’s have an efficient board of borough
officers next year, even if we have to
scratch for it.
Partridge, quail and woodcock are
ripe, and as we said last week—“Johnny
get yourgun.”
Mrs. Rev. Everest and daughter, Mrs.
Chas. L. Rockwell, of Meriden, were in
town Saturday last.
Nicholas Martin is now a regular letter
carrier, and George K. Nickerson has been
appointed substitute.
A new democratic newspaper is to be
started in Gt. Barrington this month, to
be called the Berkshire News.
Miss Clark, of Elm street, left Monday
for Minneapolis, to visit her brother, who
has been recently married in that city.
The best way to discipline one’s heart
against scandal is to believe all stories
to be false which ought not to be true.
The county commissioners have revoked
the license of James McCauley, at South
Norwalk, for violation of the Sunday law.
The Independents went to Port Chester
Saturday and played the R. B. & W. club
of that place, winning easily by a score of
16 to 6.
Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, of Michigan,
will speak to the citizens of this town in
the interest of the wage workers of Con-
necticut.
‘ The members of Company F have begun
rehearsing for their minstrel entertain-
ment to be given in the Opera House early
in December.
——Record Best $2 stoga boots at Hoyt’s.
Every voter should go to the polls on
Monday next and vote the Republican
ticket if he feels that way. If not, he
should vote as he pleases.
Mrs. Charles Brewer, who has been
spending the summer with her mother,
Mrs. S. 11. Bailey,on the Green, returns to
her home in New York, next week.
Mrs. William Doubleday, and Miss Kate
Mallory, who have been guests at the Nor-
walk Hotel for some time, returned to
their home in Jersey City, Saturday.
5‘.
Rev. F. E. Hopkins, of New Canaan, {
starts to-day for Paris for a two months’ 1 given the passenger train formerly run by}
1 Conductor Hr-rD. Thomas, on the Housa-i
Bon Voyage l
The Norfolk Tower has just celebrated
the completion of its first year of exist-
ence. It is evidently avigorous youth and
promises to live long and be happy.
' It has just come to our knowledge that
Czar of Russia plays the comet. And
here we have been laying all these plots
and conspiracies to the poor Nihilists.
Rev. Father Slocum, of St. Mary’s
church, participated in the exercises at-
tending the dedication of the Church of
the Sacred Heart in New Haven on Sun-
day.
Gen. Boulangcr has been duly “counted
out” of the votes received in Montmarte,
at the recent election. The French are
not slow in catching on to the American
idea.
visit.
The auction sale of household furniture, -
advertised to take place at the residence
of the late D. T. Buggies, in South Nor-
walk, next Wednesday, has been indefi-
nitely postponed.
A. H. Kellam was last week appointed
by the President, collector of the port of
New Haven. Let’s see, it was last week,
wasn’t it, that Senators Platt and Hawley
were in Washington.
Mrs. Arthur E. Littlefield of Springfield,
one of the people injured in the railroad
accident at North Haven, has received a
check for between $4,000 and $5,000 from
the Consolidated road.
Prof. R. P. Rogers, of New Haven,
master of arts innumerable, sciences in
superabundance, and professions in bewil-
dering variety, was in town on profession-
al business on Monday.
When the world comes to the Edisonian
standpoint of being “one vast car,” which
will hear everything, there will be a little
comfort for the gossips. They will hear
what is said of them.
There is a husband in Garrett county,
West Virginia, who only permits his wife
to have one pair of shoes at a. time, and
when he wants her to stay at home he
locks the shoes in a trunk.
The track walker on the Housatonic
road found lying alongside the track a
short distance above Ashley Falls, Friday
morning, a newly born male infant. It is
a lively, vigorous infant. There is no
trace of the mother.
“I’ve been havin’ a little pleasure the
last three or four days an’ don’t feel good”
says the coming Boston representative,
who is giving a series of bouts with other
gentlemen of his profession as a sort of
preliminary canvass.
Our death column gives the announce-
ment of the death, at Rushford, Minn,, of
a daughter of Frank M. Smith, a former
resident of Norwalk. Deceased was also
a granddaughter of Captain Henry W.
Smith, of this town.
Stratford will celebrate its 250th anni-
versary with the unveiling ofa soldiers’
monument, October 3d. Curtis Thomp-
son of Bridgeport, and Benjamin Fair-
child of New York city will deliver the
historical addresses.
The Stamford R ecord significantly re-
marks: “There is a big chance for a riding
school in Stamford. If all the poor horse-
back riders observed lately would patron-
ize it, the proprietor could soon retire
with plenty of money.”
. Clark Grumman, son-in-law of Uncle
John Collins, a well known and popular
hatter, died at his residence in P'oplar
Plains, on Wednesday evening, of typhoid
fever. He was 43 years of age and leaves
a wife and four children.
M. J. Barbour has a communication in
the Sentinel setting forth valid and speci-
fic reasons why a hospital should be es-
tablished in this town, and gives gratify-
ing assurance that the undertaking is in a
fair way to be accomplished.
A. H. Killam has been appointed collee-
tor of the port of New Haven to succeed
John C. Byxbee. The Grand Army men
strongly pressed W. H. Pierrepont for the
place, and confess their great disappoint-
ment that he was not chosen.
The annual Convention of the New York
Episcopal diocese is of the opinion that
the agitation relative to proposed changes
in the Book of Common Prayer should
come to an end, and will so recommend
to the next general convention.
——Chi1ds’ shoes 30c., woman’s slippers
45c., calf boots $1.49 at Hoyt’s.
James T. Goodrich, err-postmaster at
Norwich town, and James L. Downer,
formerly postmaster at Columbia, who
were implicated in the Palliser postal mat-
ter, have been placed under $300 and $500
bonds respectively to appear for trial.
With Justice Field going about accom-
panied by a body guard and Umpire Heu-
gle leaving the Brooklyn ball grounds un—
der police protection, it appears that there
are‘dubious and fretful times for the men
on whose decisions the welfare of a nation
depends.
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Conductor George M. Brown has been .
tonic main line. Mr. Thomas has resigned f;
by reason of failing health, and has open- ‘3
ed a grocery store on Main street, Bridge-
port.
The Greens Farms Creamery Co. has
been organized. It is to be located near
the center. The milk from about 170 cows
is promised, and more if necessary. The
work on the building will be commenced -.
at once. It is probable that no butter will
be made till spring. The capital is $2,500
The Grand Army having undertaken the
erection of the long proposed Grant ment;
ument in New York city, the project will
probably be carried to a speedy comple- <
tion. It is to the lasting shame of the
metropolis that the Grand Army, not mil-
lionaires in the bulk of its membership,
has been compelled to assume this work.
Rev, H. H. Barbour, a Baptist clergy-
man of Chicago, startled his hearers Sun-
day morning, by the statement denying
the existence of a personal devil. Mr.
Barbour having formerly lived in South
Norwalk for several years makes his de-
nial of a devil all the more extraordinary.
—-Ansonz'a Sentinel.
Centralia (Md) Guard: There is not
half the demand for “Elixir” there would
have been fifty years ago. There is not so
many believers in hell as there used to be,
and a good many more married people
now than at that time. The great ma—
jority of men are perfectly willing to go
when the time comes. They have had}
enough. '
Among the Norwalk organizations that
will participate in the great parade at the
250th anniversary celebration at Stratford
to-morrow are Company F and Company
D, C. N. G. Buckingham Post, G. A. R.,
Douglass Fowler Post, G. A. 1%., Hope
hose company, and Old Well hook and
ladder company.
Delia Connors, of Bridgeport, a hat
trimmer, attempted suicide a few days
ago by jumping into a pond. She was
rescued, however, and her attempt frus—
trated. It is really significant, how many
people get tired of living, in Bridgeport—
and yet Judge Selleck sometimes talks of
buying a house in that city.
W. F. Hanks, of Meriden,who compiled
the latest and best directory Norwalk ever
had, is arranging for a new directory of
Willimantic and fourteen surrounding
towns, viz.: Ashford, Windham, Eastford,
Hampton, Scotland, Chaplin, Mansfield,
Hebron, Coventry, Colchester, Columbia,
Andover, Lebanon and Sprague.
We are pleased to recieve from our
esteemed Bridgeport correspondent this
week, a communication that cannot fall
of interesting our local readers. Mr. Line-
burg, we are rejoiced to state, has recov-
ered from the serious illness of which we
noted a few weeks ago, and which neces-
sitated the discontinuance, for the time
being, of his contributions to the GAZETTE.
The GAZETTE, in its article on the South
Norwalk judge’s sentencing a six-year-old
boy to state reform school until he was
twenty-one, has evidently got things mixed
up. The article put in a plea for “J udge”
Alfred Knapp, who had nothing to do
with the case, and who is only a “judge”
by reason of the title having been forced
upon him. The person who did the sen-
tencing was Judge W. S. Knapp, who is
not so “portly or big hearted as Alfred.”—
Record. _______
The Meriden Republican calls attention
to what it calls “methodical slackness” in
the care of public highways. For in-
stance, but little work has been done on
the roads until just before the town elec-
tion is in sight, when a large number of
employee are put at work upon the streets.
This is a very shady sort of performance,
but it is one that is frequently met with,
even outside of the good city of Meriden,
—Rubber Shoes No Tear, at Hoyt’s.
The Superior court at Danbury has
granted the following divorces: Emma A.
Robinson, of Ridgefield, from Leslie 0.
Robinson; cause, habitual intemperance.
Eliza J. Carpenter from Frank A. Carpen-
ter; cause, intemperance. Irene M. Graves
from Dwight Graves; cause, intemper-
ance. The court granted the custody of
the children to the mother. Henry Brue-
back from Mary Brueback, on the grounds
of adultery.
Some of the signers of the petition
brought before the Board of Police Com-
missioners to have certain charges against
Chief Marsh investigated, have already re-
pented and will withdraw their names,
says the Standard. One claims that the
matter was misrepresented to him by
Lawyer Wheeler, or he should not have
signed it. He seems quite indignant over
the position in which he has been placed,
being, as he claims, misled in the matter.
The survey of the New York, Dan bury
and Eastern railroad has been completed
from the Harlem road to the New Eng-
land station in Danbury, the grades estab-
lished and maps drawn. The entire dis—
tance is sixteen miles and from the point
where the new road meets the Harlem it
is forty-three miles to New York city,
making the entire distance from Danbury
fifty-nine miles. Everything is in readi-
ness to commence the work of construc-
An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests.
People who developlsymptoms of aber-
_ ration manifested in threats to shoot them-
selves or somebody else, should be closely
watched or placed beyond the possibility
~_‘ of doing harm.
Mrs. C. A. Lounsnury and daughter, of
' Belden avenue, leave Norwalk next week
for Bridgeport. Mrs. Lonnsbury moves
to Bridgeport to join her son, who is em-
ployed in that city.
John June, of Winnipauk, was arrested
,by Chief Lockwood, on Thursday, for
Andrunkenness, the charge being preferred
against him by his wife. He was taken
before His Honor, Judge Selleck, who
sentenced him to thirty days in Bridge-
port jail.
A letter proposing marriage to a Castile
(N. Y.) girl remained in the coat-tail
pocket of the proposer for eight months,
he supposing it to have been mailed.
When he finally did mail it she was mar-
ried, but she gave her husband the shake
and eloped to Connecticut.
Alittle persistent saving goes a great
way in the long run, and it is very easy
when you form the habit. “The Things
We Throw Away and Don’t Know Where
They Go To,” by E. W. Fitz Gerald in the
current number, 115, of Good House-
keeping. It bears very interestingly on
this point.
The fall opening of millinery goods at
the Misses St. John’s store on Main street,
{takes place on Friday and Saturday of
this week, as per announcement in anoth-
er column.
region to call and inspect the beautiful
articles in the millincry line that will be
then displayed.
Melvina Hall, a Bridgeport tough of the
“gentler sex” became converted at a revi-
val meeting,accordingto thePost,and in or-
der to show her sincerity, she went into a
Fourth ward store one day and called at-
tention to the change in her appearance
and dress and then said: “I am going to
show some of the —- —— sueekrs of this
ward what Christianity will do fora per-
son.”
Editor E. F. Bigelow of the Portland
Record will soon begin the publication of
a monthly journal, to be called the Port-
land Obser'ver. It is to be devoted to
science and education, each department
to be in charge of men learned in that
especial branch, and its corps of contribu-
tors will include eminent scholars of Con-
necticut, New York and Boston. The
snake department. if it has one, will be
run by Bigelow himself.
—The Danbury fair, begining nextMon-
day, will without question be the largest
ever held by the society. The motto of
the management is Onward and Upward,
and the career of the institution demon—
strates the fact that the motto is conscien-
tiously lived up to. Everybody in this
region, and in fact for miles around, are
waiting for the big event, and it is proba-
ble that Danbury has never seen such a
multitude of people as will crowd within
her borders next week.
A pension has been granted to Mrs.
Sallie A. Tabor, of Norwich, the widow
of one Randall, a soldier in the war of
1812. After Randall’s death she married
Antipas Tabor. Aspecial bill to secure
this pension to her was passed by congress
and vetoed by President Cleveland. The
commissioner of pensions having decided
asecond marriage does not disturb the
right which accrued to claimant in conse-
quence of the military services of her first
husband, she gets a pension and arrear-
ages from March 9, 1878.
This week the Shepaug Railway com-
pany will begin the work of grading the
branch to Waurernaug lake. The com-
pany has asked the subscribers to the
$20,000 for an extension of time to the
first of June, 1890, and they are granting
this request as fast as they can be seen.
It is said that the road will be graded
this fall, but that the track will not be
laid till spring. The company agreed to
have trains running on schedule time on
a certain date provided the $20,000 was
raised within a certain time. The money
was not raised within the stipulation re-
quired, but the company accepted it, but
said it would have to have more time
before trains could he run on the branch.
——Look! grain,waterproof shoes. Hoyt’s
The annual convention of the Fairfield
County Baptist association convened here
Wednesday morning, in the Baptist
church, and was attended bya large num-
ber of delegates from out of town. The
Rev. J. W. Richardson of Stamford, pre-
sided. Oflicers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: President—W. V. Gar-
ner, Stamford; Clerk—H. M. Prowitt,
Norwalk; Treasurer—James L. Ambler,
Norwalk. In the afternoon, the Ladies’
Home and Foreign Missionary societies
were in session and Mrs. Dr. Byxbee, of
Providence, and Mrs. A. G. Stafford, of
Newtown, Mass.. made short addresses.
In the evening, Rev. Walter Scott of the
Literary Institute, Suflield, addressed the
meeting, and was followed by Rev. P. S.
Evans of New Haven, who spoke on “Mis-
tion.
sionary Work of the State.”
It will pay the ladies of this ’
N ORWALK, CONN., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1889.
Charles Ruscoe, who has been for two
months laid up at his home at Sanford’s
with a malarial difficulty, is recovering.
“Billy” Olmstead is engaged at W. H
Smith & Son’s, in Mr. Ruscoe’s absence.
Thomas E. Shea, the bright and tal-
ented young actor, who made such an
excellent impression here last Spring, is
filling an engagement in Pittsfield this
week, with brilliancy and success. He is
still under the management of genial Ed.
Varney, who numbers his friends in Nor-
walk by the score. It is to be hoped Ed
will bring Shea and his excellent com-
pany to Norwalk before the season closes.
It is thought about $1,000,000 worth of
oysters were destroyed by the recent great
gale and accompanying high tides. Along
the Connecticut coast hundred of barrels
of oysters were washed from the beds and
strewn along the shores. Beach walkers
and other poor folks picked them up and
had oyster stews for a week or more.
One man in Southport got ten barrels of
oysters and two of clams in one day, and
another an ox cart full of oysters. It is an
ill wind, etc.
The dressing of Judge Selleck’s statue
of Venus on a recent night by mischievous
prank players, was in itself a harmless
joke, but it undoubtedly inspired the
scoundrelly idiot who ruined the statue
Saturday night with his brilliant idea.
The statue was discovered Sunday morn-
ing disfigured with red paint in such a
manner as to practically ruin the beautiful
work of art as it is impossible to eradicate
the stain. The Judge is naturally indig-
nant, and his indignation is cordially
shared by every decent person in the com—
munity, that we are harboring among us
a seamp capable of perpetrating so ma-
licious a piece of mischief to the destruct-
ion of a valuable and artistic piece of
property. Efforts should be made to
detect the shallow-pated scoundrel and he
should be given a thorough flogging and a
coating of tar and feathers.
Silver Mine Cor. Messenger: “ Broad
River district is growing fast, its popula—
tion, its school enumeration and its build-
ings doubling within recent memories.
Charles Giles new house Is very near to
our line separating the districts. Broad
River, with its proximity to Norwalk and
its good roads, has many advantages,
while poor Silver Mine is steadily declin-
ing in its business and population. And
why not? Let anyone come this way
prospecting and remark the difference in
the roads as soon as they cross the Silver
Mine brook. In order to do justice for the
taxes paid to Norwalk, Silver Mine ought
to have the first selectman for one year,
and it can certainly find a number of eli—
gible candidates. Of course we are Speak—
ing of the southern part of Silver Mine
which is in Norwalk. As suitable candi;
dates we might mention Edson Ra mond,
Frank Buttery and several others. We
will right here nominate as a fit person for
first selectman of Norwalk Mr. Claude
Guthrie, of Silver Mine.”
The annual meeting of the Woman’s
Board of Fairfield county, auxillary to the
New Haven branch, was held in Wilton
on Thursday. Notwithstanding the threat-
ening weather a large number were pres-
ent, Norwalk and South Norwalk being
well represented. An address of welcome
was given by Mrs. A. M. Merwin, of
Wilton. Reports were read showing an
increasing interest in missionary effort,
particularly among the young. Mrs. Bon-
nel, of Stratford, delivered a fine address
on “Why is Mission Work My Work?”
A poem by Mrs. A. T. Curtis, of Stratford,
entitled, “The Three Marys,” was read by
Miss Clark. Miss Ferris, of Greenwich,
told of her work in Chihauka, Texas.
Mrs. Kaimakar, an educated Christain
lady from Bombay, now in this country
studying medicine, gave a very touching
and interesting account of her life and life
work as as a teacher. Miss Pearson, of
China, arrayed in a rich costume of that
country, addressed the meeting. Other
addresses were full of grand thoughts cal-
culated to inspire the ladies for further
work for missions.
—Ella Kid Best $2.00 Shoe. Hoyt’s.
“Open, Sesame}” is a collection of
prose and verse comprising more than a
thousand selections carefully edited and
arranged for committing to memory. It
is in no sense an elecutionist’s manual, the
editors having made the first test of each
selection,“Is it worth learning?” and the
second, “Is it ‘adapted to recitation ?”
The book is representative of English
literature and also comprises many trans-
lations from foreign sources. Its various
departments contain many of the familiar
classics and also many extracts from late
literature never before included in such a
collection. It is arranged in three vol-
umes, each complete in itself, and spec.
ially adapted to the age for which it is in-
tended. Volume one is designed for
children from four to ten years old; vol-
ume two for those from to fourteen and
volume three for the oldest students. The
purpose of the book is to:train the mem-
ory, to educate the literary taste, and to
supply the student§with the long needed
standard collection of poetry and prose
for recitation. Ginn & Co., publishers.
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR
NUMBER 40_
The increase in the number of vested
choirs in the Episcopal church has led to
the organization of a State Guild, having
for its object the mutual encouragement
and benefit of its members, the production
of a high class of eccleiastical music and
the pr0motion of dignity and devotion in
the rendering of the church service. The
Guild will hold its inaugural meeting Nov.
zlst, in the church of the Holy Trinity,
Middletown.
At a joint meeting of the: monumental
committee of the 17th and 27th Connecti-
cut Volunteer Associations, held atBridge-
port Sept. 18th, it was voted to go to
Gettysburg on Monday, Oct. 21st, for the
purpose of unveiling monuments now be-
ing erected there by the above regiments.
Circulars will be issued to the members of
each regiment as soon as the leaving time
from Jersey City can be ascertained. The
friends of the regiments are most cordially
invited to go with them. A special train
is being arranged for, and the fare will be
the same as on their previous excursion,
namely, 86,65 for the round trip from
Jersey City to Gettysburg. Headquarters
will be at the McClellan House on Gettys-
burg Square, at $2 per day, and all others
at private houses at $1.50 per day.
The democratic borough caucus was
held at the Town house on Monday even-
ing. There was a large attendance, but
no contest excepting on the nomination
for warden, the votes on the informal bal-
lot being very nearly equally divided
between Hon. James W. Hyatt and John
H. Lee. Mr. Hyatt was nominated on the
formal ballot. The balance of the ticket
was nominated without opposition. The
ticket entire is as follows :
For Warden—James W. Hyatt.
Burgesses—E. N. Sloan, John H. Lee,
Edward Street, Isaac Bowe, O. E. Wi‘son
Moses H. Glover. ' ’
Collector—Legrand Raymond.
Treasurer—James H. Bailey.
Water Commissioner—Fred. Mead.
Bailiff—Stiles W. Curtis.
Registrar—B. C. Feeney.
Inspector of Elections—Bernard Tully.
The two base ball teams re resentin
the Y. M. C. A. of each townpplayed E
game Thursday afternoon on the White
street grounds. A large number of people
saw the brilliant (?) playing of both teams.
At the end of the ninth inning the score
stood 14 to 13 in favor of the Danbury
team, but this the Norwalk team objected
to, saying the score was a tie, but they
could not prove it. After a little wrang-
ling, the home team willing to uphold the
good name they have gained for them-
selves by gentlcmanly conduct and good
playing, agreed to play on to satisfy their
opponents, and after eleven innings had
been played the game went to N orwalk by
a score of 16 to 15. After the game the
home team entertained their guests royal-
ly at the association rooms. The team
left for Norwalk at 6.40 p. m. The bat-
teries were Beebe and Scott, and Hall and
Greenwood—Danbury News.
It is one of the laudable characteristics
of the esteemed News to uphold all Dan—
bury institutions. It praises them when
they deserve it, and praises them whether
or no. But in its zeal to glorify Dan—
bury talent it sometimes finds itself fOrced
to strain the facts as in the above, in which
it impiites unfairness to the Norwalk Y.
M. C. A. and hints of ungentlemanly con-
duct, inferior playing, etc. Justlce to all
concerned demands that the actual facts in
this connection be made public, and those
facts are as follows: On Labor day, in
accordance with arrangements mutually
understood, the Danbury Y. M. C. A.
team came to Norwalk to play for a prize
of a bag of bats offered by Smith Bros.
In the third inning of that game the
Danburys protested against allowing a
certain Norwalk player to continue, on
the ground that he was not, strictly speak-
ing, :a: member of the Y. M. C. A., his
card of membership not having yet been
signed. Agreeable to this protest the
player in question was laid off and another
substituted, and the Norwalks won the
game with the score of 10 to 9. The
Danburys then went home and re-
quested Smith Bros. not to award the bats
to the winners, because one of them, who
played only three innings, was only a half-
fledged member of the Y. M. C. A. N ot-
withstanding this narrow-guaged spirit
the Norwalks readily consented to
call the game the first of a series
of three games to be played for the bats. ‘
The second game was the one reported
as above by the News. As for the "wran-
gle” at the end of the ninth inning, the
score at that juncture was a tie, 14 to 14,
as the Norwalks sturdily and very prop-
erly contested, and as the Danburys, after
the admission of an error by their scorer,
were forced to frankly admit. The game
then proceeded till the eleventh inning,
when the Norwalks won with the score of
16 to 15, and the Danburys could do
nothing less than concede their defeat.
They are a good team, composed of good
boys, but, notwithstanding the News’ pa.
ternal interest and commendable desire to
make them appear invincible but victims
of unfair treatment, they can’t play ball
as well as the Norwalks; The prize bats,
which prove this assertion, are now on
exhibition in the window of Smith Broth-
ers’ shoe store in Norwalk, a trophy of
£1; Norwalk Y. M. C. A. team’s superior
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