ESTABLISHED 1800
. VOLUME XC.
N ORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1890.
An Enterprising Republican Journal, especiali‘ywdeyOted to Local News andInterests.
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LOCAL ITEMS.
' The game law goes off to-day.
Ed. Hoyt is shooting bears in the
Adirondacks. '
’-’ The Word's Fair furnishes an instance
of second site. -
Company F will elect a captain on Tues-
day evening next.
The call for the annual Town election
appears in another column.
Congressman Miles has had Mr. John R.
Palmer appointed postmaster at Westport.
The machine worked smoothly when a
Republican quorum was dropped in the
slot. ' "
Politics and religion are getting togeth-
er in a most confused manner out in Wis-
cousin.
The Woodward honIstead in South
Norwalk has been purchased by Christian
Swartz. '
On Monday evening a son was born to
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Buckley, on Belden
avenue.
The air is full of string music from the
tightly strung wires of the political
machines.
H. C. Mosher spent Sunday with his
‘ daughter, Mrs. C. H. Dunham, in Plain-
field, N. J.
A Virginia man has discovered a pro-
cess for keeping eggs fresh for an indefi..
nite period.
Wm. S. Thompson is vigorously push-
ing the work of laying the gas mains to
Winnipauk. '
Town electioninext Monday. May the
best men win—that is, here’s hoping our
side gets there. ' -
George F. Quintard has purchased the
grocery'business of William Valden in
Phoenix block.
The Brooklyn school principals have
not yet asked to have Longfellow excludo
ed from the mails. _
It ought not' be displeasing to Mr. Clevc- ~
land to witness such universal public in-
terest in his health.
Chauncey Depew is adding another.
story to his New:York home._ It is not an
after dinner story. .. '
Pastor Stephens, of the African .M. E.
church, is the proud father of a son born
on Wednesday last; .
New York’s Grant Monument designs
are on paper and in the purses of the
people of Other States. . . '_ .
Cal Wood-is the nexthcwv_ York mur-
derer to try the electric line. - -Wood may
prove a non-conductor. ' ~
Ofi‘icial .fballots such as the law' pre-
scribes, will be-furnished in quantities 'to
suit, at the GAZETTE oflice.
Manager Stanley has secured “Zozo, the
Magic Queen, to be produced in the Opera
House, on Monday evening.
—-- Ladies should bear inlmind Mrs. Few-I
cett’s fall millinery opening on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of this week.
Still the public is under obligations to
Powderly. He utterly refuses to lecture,
run for Congress, or gojon the stage.
Nevada’s population is running down
- at an alarming rate. However, there are
enough citizens left to fill the offices.
Despondency caused Mary Fitzmaurice
of Danbury to take Paris green for the
Danbury blues and she died on Friday.
—Everything pertaining to horse fur.
nishings, carriages, etc., at greatly reduc-
ed prices, at W. E. Dann’s, 50 Wall St. 17
Miss R. M. Collins opens to-day her new
millinery parlors at South Norwalk, with
a fulLand complete line of millinery goods.
”
Rufus Platt, carriage painter at H. E.
Dann’s livery stable, was married on Wed.
nesday last to Mrs. Emily Miller of Green-
wich. - ,
Congressman Wiley says Congress is no
place for a poor man. However, it|is be.
coming a great resort for poor Congress-
men.
Ex-mal cairrier W. T. Peat lost a horse
on Wednesday, the animal dropping dead
as it was climbing the hill near the
mom: {fin-.2, " 'f
‘ A man who is a good deal agitated tram
time to time by his wife’ii ‘bteezy disposi-
tidil esys'that he suffers from tempeMii-y
embarrassment.
Charles Hoyt, late of Scofield & Hoyt’s
drygoods store, is taking a 200 miles trip
in New York state on his bicycle. .
Mrs Robert Ray Hamilton is quite
anxious to get out of the penitentiary
and into her deceased husband’s bank ac-
count. ' ' ‘ ,
Without any purpose of making ligh
of serious matters, it might be remarked
that Colon has been reduced to a sort of
semi-colon.
. Religion is very popular in certainsec-
tions of the South. Every man, woman
and child who is converted receives a
watermelon.
Th‘a‘t Ohio man whose house has suffer-
ed eight distinct strokes of lightning has,
very properly, placed himself in the hands
of his friends.
To carry out a practical joke a Phila-
delphia man blew out his brains. He pre-
ferred spoiling a had set of brains to spoil-
ing a good joke.
The matter of widening and improving
Wall street, near the bridge, will be dis—
missed in the court of burgesses’ room on
Friday afternoon.
—All the approved styles in fall millin-
ery goods will be exhibited at Mrs. Faw—
cett’s opening Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday of this week.
A Cincinnati street car conductor has
fallen heir to $150,000. ' He will be more
independent than ever when asken to'stop
at the next corner. , - .
The Mayflower hook and ladder com-
pany, of East Norwalk, will walk behind
the Bridgeport Philharmonic band, in the
Portchester parade.
The Hopson 85 Chapin Manufacturing
company of New London have the Con-
tract for heating the Congregational
church at New Canaan.
The Bridgeport Post people contemplate
introducing type setting machines into
their office to keep up With Reporter Jen-
nings’ stylographie pen.
W. H. Crane made $30,000 last season
playing ‘The Senator.” Mr. Silcott did
much better than that by playing the
memberspf the house.
The telephone girl has gotten so used to
having the last word whenever she wants
it, that she actually doesn’t seem to care
whether she gets it or not. '
The Woman’s College at Baltimore ap-
pears to have entered on a great career of
usefulness and prosperity. It opened on
Monday with 448 pupils-
Mr. C. P. Huntington has given a fine
tract of land to the city of Newport News
for school purposes and intends to' erect
suitable buildings thercoq.
John S. Seymour, Esq., is said to be
a candidate for the state senate fr0m this
district. Hill vs. Seymour will make a
warm and lively campaign.
The Bridgeport News announces, ap--
parently. in all seriousness, that P. T;
Barnum is intending to “turn his back on
the Park city and go West.”
Simeon E. Baldwin, who has been
elected president of the American Bar.
association, has been professor of consti-
tutional law in Yale since 1872.
There is to be a State Temperance con-
vention in Hartford, January 20and 21,
1891, under the auspices of the Connecti—
cut Temperance Union.
Ammi F. Hull, an inmate of the Soldiers
Home, fell from a train of cars at Hawlcy-
ville, Friday night, last week, and was
killed. He was 55 years of age.
Exi'Warden C. B. Coolidge is a candi-
date for county commissioner to succeed
County Commissioner Olmstead, of New
Canaan, whose term expires this fall.
E. Burd Grubb has perched on the
Spanish mission. “Thus does the distin-
guished New Jersey statemen reap the
reward for his gubernatorial canvass.
The hydrants of the Borough are being
painted a light color in order that they
,may be naked to the visible eye on dark
nights when the fire bug gets his little
work in. __
Err-Senator Thurman’s birthday is to be
celebrated on the 13th of November by a
banquet, at which ex.President Cleveland
and other Democratic notables expect to
be present.
The republican Congressional conven-
tion for the Fourth district will be held in
Proctor's Opera House, Bridgeport on
Wednesday of next week, at 11 o’clock in
the forenoon. -
John A. Riggs is spending a couple of
weeks at his old home in Washington,
D. 0. His drug store is managed by
James E. Gibson, of the same city. during
his absence.
Mr. Stanley will dbliver his first lecture
in New York in the Metropolitan Opera
House on November 11. The subject will
be the “Rescue of Emin, the ‘ Forests, the
Pigmies, and the March Across Africh’.
.—Grsnd opening of fall styles lnmillln-V';
ery, trimmings, etc. at Mrs. stcettfs.
parlors on Wire: street, mama-nu; .
‘ " 7 Wall street.
and Ssturdsygof this week.
Dr. Many’s little son Freddie, gave his
playmates a lawn party on "Saturday,”
which was quite largely attended by some
quite small people who quite heartily ap-
preciated the festive occasion. ,
Judge Knapp of South Norwalk, yester-
day sentenced John Harrigau to pay $1 -
and costs, aggregating $5.76 for drunken-
ness; and Frank Finch, 30 days “and costs
for drunkenness and breach of the peace.
Dr. W. M. Taylorgof New York, is paid
$16,000 a year, the largest salary paid in
any Congregational minister. Three "in
Brooklyn, viz : Drs. Lyman ' Abbott,
‘Storrs, and Behrends, receive $10,000
each. , .
to the New York farmers. In the event
of Mr. Cleveland’s return to the White
House the governor would be a most for-
midable candidate for Uncle Jerry Rusk’s
place.
Mr. O. E. Wilson has made notable
improvements about his newly purchased
property, on West avenue, in the way of
trimming up. trees, etc., an example
which has been followed by some of his
neighbors.
Jacob Schaub, A. G. J udsou, James ' E.
Wixon, Royal Adams and his brother
Elbert assisted in the formation of a
Butchers’ Protective association in .New
Haven Thursday evening. A banquet
was served. __.__
Maul. Hailfellow Wade will soon go on
his'an'nual vacation to Bedding, where he
will take his annual shot at that super-
annuated woodchuck, whose life he has
made aweary burden every fall for the
past fifteen years.
The invitations are out for the marriage
of Dr. James Cannon Newkirk of N crwalk'
and Miss Lillian Adele Sherwood of West-
port, which will be solemnized in
the Memorial church of the Holy Trinity
at Westport on Tuesday evening 14th inst.
A special town meeting will be held in the
Town house to—morrow (Thursday) after-
noon at 3 o’clock to consider the question
of extending East avenue from the Con-
solidated railroad tracks to Gregory’s
Point. There should be a good attend-
ance. ‘
Officer Ireland, of the South Norwalk‘
police, is getting considerable notoriety
which must be disagreeable to him,
especially if he be innocent of the dirty
charges brought against him by the indig-
nant husband of a woman now in the
asylum.
The Danbury fair, whlch begins Oct.
7th is occupying the attention of every-
body in Danbury and almost everybody
outside, in the county. The management
are confident that the fair this year will be
and attendance.
Rev. Dr. W. L. Phillips, pastor of the
First Methodist church of Wilkesbarre,
Pa., has accepted a call to the First Con-
g'regational church in New Haven. He
will he succeeded by Rev. Mr. Boyle, now
pastor of the Park avenue Episcopal.
church in New York city.
Au Ohio woman aged sixty has brought
suit for $2,000 against a man who kissed
her without first securing her consent.
That is rather a high figure for a kiss of
that age, but if it can be proven that the
man was the aggressor, he should be made
to pay for his rashness.
The bi-monthly meeting of the Connecti-
cut Weekly Press association was held in
Hartford Monday. S. C. Beckley of the
an essay on “The Relations of the Public
to the Editor.” An appetizing spread was
served at the United States hotel.
The “Berkshire News’ Comic Cook
Book and_Dyspeptic’s Guide to the Grave,”
is the suggestive title of a little book just
published by Fred H- Curtiss, the Berk-
shire poet and humorist. . It is the fun.
niest publication to be found in a day’s
journey and ought to sell immensely.
Last week every business man was try-
ing to gather in money and to pay out as
little as possible, expecting a crash. Now
that the seats is over an opposite policy is
in order. Loose cash should be deposited
in the banks; bills should be paid; money
should be put in circulation, and a condi-
tion of permanence ease insured.—Phila.
delphia Record. - j
The novelist who persists in saying,
“She went tripping down the stair,”
’ should explain whether the lady’s feet are
unwieldy, or whether the servant girl has
been careless again with the soap. The
public may feel interested in knowing
what tripped her. .
_#
E. J. Hill, the lumber dealer of Water"
street, is in the field and will be a candir
date for senatorial honors from this dis-
trict. Mr. Hill is po nlar with all classes,
andfis one of Norwsl ’s most rosperous
merchants. He has a strong pull through-
out the districtzsnd a clean record,‘defeat-'
ingAss Smith tin 1886 and receivin {a
plurality of 222;votes.—.Nomalk Cor. «0d.
:f—Csrriages and harnesses of fury «7-:
tseription', trunks, traveling bagp, etotj, “L
reduced rates, at W..& Dean’s, 130.150}
', , 7" . . tfl'l‘
Governor Hill made a very good speech .
bigger that ever before, both ,in' exhibits .
Connecticut Western News, Canaan, read,
i".'ll‘he fresh air fund raised by the New
York Tribune this season, fools up about
$20,000. Twenty thousand dollars worth
-of fresh air to the poor children of the
tenement houses and slums, is a noble
benefaction, indeed, as nearly nine thou-
sand of them bear grateful, testimony.
' .P. T. Barnum is developing a strong
taste for literary work, and he is busy
nearly every day writing a series of articles
to be published in the forthcoming numb-
ers of The Ladies’ Home Journal. The
great showman is said to write very easily
‘hnd fluently, his manuscript showing but
few correctionsf
: Benjamin J. Crofut, an old and well
known resident, died at his home on Han-
ford Place, South Norwalk, on Saturday
afternoon at the age of 62 years. The
funeral was attended yesterday afternoon,
the burial services being conducted by
old Well lodge, F. and A. M., of which
deceased was a member.
Mary Sheahy of Stratford died at the
Bridgeport hospital at an early hour Wed.
nesday morning of exposure and internal
injuries. While walking the tracks at
Stratford Monday night she fell into a
ditch and lay there all night. She was
found there in the morning half dead.
She was 65, years of age.
A two-year-old daughter of Theodore
Raymond, of Danbury, while visiting, in
company. with her mother, at J. R. Ray-
mond’s in SouthNorwalk last week, had
access to aconsiderable quantity of grapes,
' of which she ate so heartily that she died
from the effects. The body was taken to
Danbury on Sunday afternoon.
“The Old Pump on the Green,” ‘a new
and beautiful song and chorus, now hav-
ing a great sale, and being sung by all the
minstrel troupes; price 40 cents. “Dancing
Sunbeams,” a new schottischc militaire,
livciy and inspiring, one of the prettiest
instrumental pieces published in years;
price 50 cents. Both of these publications
have illustrated titles and are published
by C. M. Loomis’ , Sons, Temple of Music,
New. Haven, Conn.
Miss Kate Field is opposed to universal
suffrage, with its inevitable ignorant vot-
ing, but is in favor of the, ballot for her-
self. She says (in her Washington) that
she thinksa green immigrant has no right
to vote, and holds: “1 think I have, be-
cagse I’ve done some thinking, can read
the constitution, and owu real estate in a
cemetery.”
The biggest merchant vessel ever built
in Philadelphia, was launched on Satur-
day. The ship is of 4,800 tons capacity,
is 400 feet long, 48 feet beam, 33% feet
depth of bold, and is to run in the Morgan
line between New York and New Orleans.
She will be christened El Sol, and belong-
ing to the splendid coastwise fleet of the
country will enjoy the‘honor of carrying
the American flag.
—-Carriages, carts and wagons of all de-
scriptions and at reduced prices at W. E.
Dann’s, 50 Wall street. tf17
Bridgeport is excited over the myster.
ious disappearance of a human skeleton
which was mysteriously found in the cel-
lar of an old house at Black Rock a few
daysngo. It was locked up in a room in
the house, and was stolen the same night.
Probably the ghost of the man who origi-
nally wore it, came around at the witching
hour of midnight, put it on again and
wore it off.
, A case that has excited much adverse
comment was that of young Ed. McFar-
land, caught by the borough police some
weeks ago in the very act of committing a
burglary, who confessed his guilt and was
bound over for trial in the court of com-
mon pleas, but, to the astonishment of the
community, had his case nolled, and went
soot free without a trial, What the secret
. of his discharge was,the community would
like to know. _.
Every few day a barrel of beer explodes
on the dock at Bridgeport. On Monday
morning there-was no beer on the wharf
at the hour for the usual explosion. That
slight discrepancy was not sufiicient to
prevent the regular exhibition, however,
as two barrels of yeast which had just
been unloaded from a vessel blew up with
a loud sound, and spattercd everything
within two rods with pancake batten.
Whatever fears may have been enter-
tained regarding the lecture course of
Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer
and the leading attraction of the ap-
proaching American season, but which at
one time it was probable his ill-health
would compel him to abandon, are set at
rest by the latest news from Italy. The
survivor of the hardships of many jungles
in now sojourning in a palace by the
Lake of Como in greatly improved health.
To live an average life time thinking
yen know a certain thing, and then have
your mistake pointed out by a school-boy
is very humiliating. This is what happen-
ed to a man who was asked the other day,
what “Comin' thro' the Rye” meant. . lie
of course said “a field of grain,” and he
was presentlyjinfdrmed by one very much
his junior, that Burns’ .“Comin’th’ro’ the
Bye” refers .to. s. ford of the Bye river,-s
passage on --t_iie stepping stones, where s
kiss‘nsed to be exacted as toll. ' ~ ‘ 6..
BridgeportI News: A cockfight took
place in a barn in the northern part of the
city Sunday afternoon, between birds
owned in this city and Winnipauk parties.
There was but one battle fought and
Bridgeport came out victorious in that
The Winnipauk parties then asked for a
postponement until some future time to be
mutually agreed upon and the Bridge~
porters readily consented to it.
Boulanger has latterly been putting
forth his best efforts to prevent his being
considered a back-number, Having fail-
ed as a military man, a politician, and an
agitator, he has at length drawn upon
himself the derision of France by ungai-
lant insinuations against a woman whose
only folly consisted in spending the enor—
mous amount of $600,000 in furtherance
of his abortive schemes. Her son is said
to be on the warpath.
R. M. Ross, the “baby of the regiment,”
is being advocated in good faith, by mem-
bers of company F for election to the
office of captain of the company, and he
is thought to be becoming interested in
the. idea himself. The election'occurs on
Tuesday evening next, and err—Captain A.
A. Bette is supposed to be the principal
candidate who Will be placed in the field
to oppose Mr. Rose. '
At the Prohibition convention held in
South Norwalk last week the following
nominations were made: Sheriff of Fair-
field county, William R. Miles, Danbury:
sheriff of Litchfield county, Charles Hud-.
son, Watcrtown ; Senator from the twelth
district, S. L. Comstock, New Canaan;
thirteenth district, Oliver W. Weed,
South Norwalk; fourteenth district, Dr.
C. W. Strong, Bridgeport; fifteenth dis-
trict, Oliver G. Beard, Huntington.
Thc'October number of the New Eng-7
land Magazine is first and foremost a Cot-
ton Centennialnumber. The two princi-
pal illustrated articles are on “Pawtucket
and the Slater Centennial” and “The Cot-
ton Industry ‘in New England.” - Rev.
Massena Goodrich, the writer of the for-
mer article, treats Pawtucket in the same
thorough way in which Haverhill and
others of our New England towns have
recently been treated in the New England
Magazine.. ~
W.,B. Rider &,Son, of South Norwalk
have been awarded the contract for laying
the new sixteen'inch water pipe author-
ized by a recent borough meeting, and
the work was begun Monday morning.
The bid was, for excavations for material,
30 cents per yard; rock $4.25 per yard;
masonry for excavation, 30 cents per
yard; dry rubble masonry, $2.50 per
. yard; rubble masonry in cement, $5 per
yard, pipe laying, 61 cents per lineal foot.
The work is to be completed by Jan. 1st,
1891.
Dr. Brown-Sequard must have been
' smuggling some of his elixir of youth over
here. Yesterday it was an old man of
ninety wooing a young widow; to-day it
is James Morgan, of Columbus, Ind., aged
eighty-one, who advertises for a wife He
is a wealthy hermit, and having quit work,
' wants a young and pretty wife to brighten
up the remainder of his days. To the‘
woman who fills the order he promises to
pay $5,000. Of course he is receiving
' letters, and in due time will buy the girl.
The probabilities are that she will earn
the $5,000.
The following post surgeons have been
been appointed for Falrfield county, to
make examination of those desiring ex-
emption from military duty: C. C‘
Godfrey, Bridgeport; W. C. Burke, Jr.,
NorWalk; A. T. Clasdn, Danbury; C. R.
Hart, Bethel; C. E. Howell, Stamford;
E. M. Smith, Newtown; W. L. Griswold,
Greenwich; -W. 8. Todd, Ridgefield;
W. G. Brownson, New Canaan; L. T.
Day, Westport; W. H. Donaldson, Fair-
field; M. H. Wakeman, Redding; A. B.
Gorham, Wilton; W. F. French, Darien.
The records of old Newtown are now
being searched by lawyers way back to
the time when it became a corporate town
in 1708. This is done in 'the interests of
some New Yorkzcapitalists, who wish to
know the original owners of the old Sandy
Hook gold mine there. It is said a de-
termined effort is to be made to find who
the original workers of the mine were and
to secure a clear title to the property, and
then a thorough test of its paying qualities
will be made. Several attempts have
been made tolmake the mine a financial
success, but it has never yet brought for—
tune to any one. ~
A new EpiscOpal parish was organized
at the residence of Robert VanBuren, on
West avenue, Wednesday evening, to be
known as Grace parish. The” oflicers
elected are Wardens, A. C. Golding and
W. H. Smith; vestrymen, Charles F. Os-
born, Robert VanBuren, William F. Bish-
op, Thomas S. Morison, George W. Cram
and William Lockwood; Gould Hoyt
was elected parish clerk, James W. Hyatt
treasurer, ~ and A. H. Camp collector.
Levi Wanner was elected a delegate to the
Episcopal convention. The committee
was find a location-for the new parish.
.. They-adjourned for two weeks. .. 7
Mrs.| Eliza S. Hoyt, relict of the late ‘
Edwin Hoyt, died at the old homestead,
on Main street, where she had lived for
many years, on Monday morning, at the
age of 87 years. Deceased was One of the
oldest and best known women in the town.
She was the mother of Grand Juror Mon-
son Hoyt.
The republicans of the berough held
their caucus in the Town House, on
Monday evening, and nominated the fol-
lowing ticket:
For Warden—Edwin O. Keeler.
Burgesses—George I. Buxton, John D.
Kimmey, A. J. Meeker, Harve M. Kent,
Charles A. Quintard, Franklin . Gregory.
Treasurer—Henry P. Price.
Collector—Edward M. Lockwood. ,
Water Commissioner—George W. Ray-
mond.
Bailiff—Robert N. Morehouse.
Register of Voters—Herbert R. Smith.
Inspector, of Elections—John H. Wade.
This is an excellent ticket, containing
the essential elements of strength and
capability, and should be elected.
The democratic voters of the First and
Third Voting Districts will make their
nominations for the town ticket this
(Tuesday) evening. The Second district
democrats nominated their share of the
ticket Monday evening, as follows .
Selectman—Nelson J. Craw.
Constables—Charles Godfrey and John
D. Morton.
Assessor—Henry D. Fox.
Board of Relief—Geo. W. Carroll.
Grand Juror—Wm. M. Raymond.
School Visitor—Christian Swariz.
Auditor—J. Irving Dibble.
Registrar—Richard H. Golden.
The democrats of the city of South Nor-
walk held their caucus on Monday evening
and nominated the folldwing city ticket
For Mayor—William B. Reed.
Treasurer—James A. Farringtou.
Water Commissioner—Chas. C. Trow—
bridge.
Collector—Herman Snyder.
Marshal—Charles R. James.
Auditor—Nelson Hoyt.
Treasurer of water fund—Minot
Smith.
Iltspector of elections—Wm. F. Ward-
we .
Register—Wm. M. Raymond.
S.
The wicked Ansonia Sentinel says this :
“Down in South Nor-walk the people dear-
ly love to discuss public questions in the
public print. For along time arguments
waxed warm over the insect, animal or
reptile that ‘pceps’ in the spring and so
far as we know the verdict has never been
reached. Now the question under discus-
sion is: Are the boarding houses and res—
taurants responsible for the rowdyism on
the streets? It is a momentous topic and‘
has been argued pro'and con. Yet to one
who has lived in that thrifty city there
can be but one answer. The boarding
houses and restaurants are not responsible
for the rowdyism. It is the intoxicating
efiects of a ride over the horse railway
connecting the two villages. There is not
a doubt of it. it is one of the most ex-
hilarating, deliriously delicious journeys
one can take—if time is no object.”
The firemen’s parade in Port Chester,
which occurs on Thursday, the 16th inst.,
is engrossing the minds of our fire fighters,
who are assiduously preparing to make a
pretty appearance in the line. Some of
us will have new uniforms, some will
sponge off the old ones, some will go clad
in just plain, ordinary clothing store
raiment, but we all expect to get there
just the same. Port Chester isn’t a bad
town for parading purposes and is admir-
ably located and equipped for the enter«
tainment of visitors. Her streets are wide
and substantially cobbled; she has an
expansive water front in the rear and her
hills are‘not steep. Her fire department
is composed of pretty good fellows, more
remarkable for their whole-souled hospi-
tality than their beauty, and the stranger
within her gates is abundantly taken in
and nourished. The department consists
of four companies, and is ofi‘lcered as
follows: Edgar Lowden, chief engineer;
Captain Ed. Studwell, first assistant;
James E. Rockwell, second assistant.
Harry Howard Hook & Ladder Company,
No. 1, has Horace A. Curtis as foreman
and J. H. Lyon, first assistant. Putnam
Engine, No. 2, Chauncey Downs, fore-
man; Abram Bell, first assistant; Joseph
Baker, second assistant. Morris Hose
Company, No. 3, Charles MacIntyre, fore-
man; George S. Merritt, first assistant.
Reliance Engine and Bose Company,
Joseph D. Gunning, foreman. .All these
companies and all these men are heart
and .soul, head, neck and heels given
over to the enthusiasm of the approaching
event, and they have already raised money
enough to feed all of the five thousand
visiting firemen on pic and sponge cake
for a month and decorate their town from
one end to the other and three times .
across with star spangled banners. Her
two newspapers are whooping up. things
with beautiful patriotic zeal, Campy of
theJournal and McDermott of the Enter.
pica vieing with each other in their deter-
mination to keep the ball in the air. It’s“.
going who a big thing for Port Chester
and s big thing for her visiting firemen,
and those who;,missgit .will be awfully
, sorry when they see those who participate
,come home. ,' .. -
Norwalk Chronicler