Norwalk weekly gazette, Friday, June 12, 1891 · page 3

 

 

 

 

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WEEKLY-NORWALK

GAZETTE.

 

 

Mill Hill and East Avenue.

The anxiety on the part of many of
our best citizens to have Mill Hill cut
down and East avenue graded,guttered
and side-walked, culminated Saturday
afternoon in the entire Court of Bur-
gesses, headed by the Mayor and
flanked by the‘borough Engineers, by
Attorney Hurlbutt for the property
owners, and a crowd of miscellaneous
citizens, who marched over the dis-
puted territory and after viewing the
same, gave careful observations as to
the best methods, in their official and
individual§opinion, for making the im-
provements called for with least cost to
the taxpayers and, least injury to pri-
vate property. Fully an hour was
spent on Mill Hill, and the question of
how best to improve that section 'of
the entrance to and upon East avenue,
was debated from every possible side.
The opinion as to this improvement
seemed to be about unanimous that
there was but one'thing possible to do,
if this approach to the “Bridge” was
to be made really any better than it
now is, and that was to start just
east of the stone steps to Miss Julia

Lockwoodis‘> residence ~‘and .cut‘5 to at!

least 13 feet into the knob or ball of
her door-yard lawn, where it projects
most into the street at the bend in the
roadway. Thence to widen the hill
roadbed down to the Honnecker bak-
ery and set back that building, the
Platt Price building and cut 013' from
the brick Quintard building on the
corner about fifteen feet. In this
way only can this narrow throat or funi
nel of roadway at the foot of the hill'
be made of a width adequate to the
public needs. There were various
views as to the grade, but a majority
seemed to think that a regular and
even grade should be made up from
the foot of the hill to the juncture with
East avenuein front of the new and
beautiful villa of Dr. Baxter.

The crowd then passed on to the dis-
puted spot known as the “Daskam line
of trees.” Here the borough authori-
ties and engineer, with several adjacent
residents, were decided as to the ne-
cessity of the outer or double row be.-
ing cut down.’ Others as strenuously
expressed the belief that suflicient
width would be left to the roadway if
the curbstones were set close to the
bodies of this pretty and thrifty line of
trees which are so interlaced above as
to form a complete arbor over the side-
walk. So no definite conclusion was
reached as to these, but so far as the
borough officmls were concerned, they
seemingly left as they came, with the
fixed purpose for their destruction in
the interest of a wider and straighter
avenue.

The next and last and most hotly
contested point, was that in front of
what is known as the Van Zandt prop-
erty and the Bennett place adjoining
it on the south. The old Van Zandt
homestead lot was divided up by ‘the
late Mr. Barnes into whose hands it
fell, and he sold the first or north-side
lot adjoining the Vanderhoef estate to
Mr. Geo. W. Cram. Mr. Cram desires
that the hill here should be cut down
and a gutter and sidewalk set at grade.
Two years ago he got such a grade es-
tablished, but nothing was done until
the latter part of last week towards
having this done. He had the full
force of the borough contractor’s men,
carts and teams vigorously at work
cutting into the, bank‘ at the time of
this 'visitation on Saturday, and the
work was being superintended by Bur-
gess Burr and Engineer Wood. It was
this act that Attorney Hurlbutt acting
for the remonstrants, denounced as a
breach of good faith on the part of
such of the borough officials as were
engaged in it, as a vote had been
passed at the last meeting of the Court
of Burgesses not to commence opera-
tions on this hill until he and the. bor-
ough officials should personally inspect
the same in the view and with the pur-
pose of making such concessions and
friendly arguments as would save, at
least, the long and beautiful row of trees
in front of the Bennett residence and
the property south of it. A long and
fruitless argument was here held, Dr.
Coolidge, Postmaster Hubbell, the
Warden and Burgesses, Mr. Cram, Mr.
Bennett, Mr. Hunter and others par
ticipating and at times, with a good
deal of earnestness and heat.

No satisfactory conclusion was
reached as to this most hotly contested
part of the proposed improvement and
the crowd left as they came, about
equally divided. while the borough of-
ficials seemed to be fixed in their idea
that they “could not make fish of one
and flesh of another,” that they had
cutMr. Osborn’s and others’ trees and
must shew no partiality; that the pub-
lic needs required a greater width here,
that the owners of property here were
divided 1n Sentiment among themselves
etc., etc., etc. and there they retired.

As to Mill Hill, Mr. Wood will be di-
rected to make a map and submit it to
the court and also to a borough meet-

ing, to be called, showing the proposed,
widening and grading and giving the

estimated cost thereof:

I feel it my duty to say a few words
in regard to Ely’ s Cream Balm, and I
do so entirely without solicitation. I

have used it more or leééf half a year, .,

and have found. it to be most admirable.

worst kind ever since I was a little boy
and I never hoped for cure, but Cream
Balm seems to do even that. Man of
my acquaintances have used it wit ex-
cellent results. —Oscar Ostrum, 45 War-
ren Ave” Chicago, Ill.

 

 

 

 

Narrow Escape.

About four o’clock Saturday after-
noon, as a gang of Italian laborers
were digging in a trench for the new
main of the South Norwalk water
works, on the Silver Mine road, and on
the crest of the first hill beyond the
fork of the road to Silver Mine and to
Comstock Hill, they excavated to with-
in about a foot of the old iron main,
when a piece of the pipe burst out and
in an instant filled the new trench with
rocks, earth and water. All of the
gang got out save three, and one of
these soon escaped with a bad ducking
in muddy water and a few bruises.
One of the other two was soon after
hauled ‘out by his countrymen getting
a rope under his arms and lifting him
from his perilous position, but not till
the water and mud had risen nearly to
his arm pits. He was badly bruised
and strained by the suction of the mud
and the rapidly falling gravel and
stones about him. The last of the
three seemed hopelessly fastened. His
Comrades nearly pulled him in too, and
cut his body quite severely in their ef-
forts’to pull him out, They jerked and
hauled on his armsand at the-rope un-
availingly,as asthe water had gotten up
to his chin and his death seemed inevi-
table, when, providentially, the flow of

water was shut off, and he was then
soon dug out and properly cared for.
The poor fellow’ s escape from drown-
ing was almost a miracle.

On examination it was found that an
old break, all rusted up in the seam,
had existed for a long time, probably
from the time the pipe was first put
down, and as soon as the support sup-
plied by the earth packed about it
caved away, it burst out and caused
this deluging of the new trenches and
roadway all about. After the water
was shut off, workmen succeeded in re-
pairing the broken main at about 10
o’clock that night.

At about daybreak Sunday morning,
a lead packing blew out of the old main
at the fork of the roads this side of the
first break and that poured all day
into the long line of new trench and
over the roadways, but no one was in-
jured and little damage was done.
Workmen on the new line say the first
main was very insecurely packed ~and
laid, and would have been liable to dis-
aster at any time.

South Norwalk meantime was 'con-
nected with the borough mains, and
our sister city thus supphed not only
with its usual supply of Sunday water,
but water of a far better quality than
that they are accustomed to use.

A resident near the scene of the disas-
ter remarked to the DAILY GAZETTE re-
porter that there was “never no great
loss without 'some small gain,” for he
said, “it was probably the first time in
the whole lives of these Italian trench
diggers that they ever took a bath.”
The looks of the poor fellows certainly
justified this view of their case.

Fierce Runaway.

Saturday afternoon about _4 o’clock,
J. Remson, the South Norwalk truck-
man, met with quite a mishap. He
had just unloaded a piano at Col. Rob-
erts’ military institute when the cadets
broke ranks, after dress parade, and
dashed into the institute with so much
vim that they frightened Mr. Remson’s
horses and the latter dashed down
East avenue and Wall street as if pur-
sued by demons’. Even Mill Hill, with
its somewhat sharp descent, had no
terrors for them and they went down
that noted thoroughfare in a twinkling.
As they tried to turn at the foot of the
hill they brought up against the lamp
post with such ,force as to shatter the
truck pole, break the harness, injure
one of the horses and break the two
lower panes of glass in. the east window
of Honnecker’s bakery. The lamp
post proved more efi'ectual in stopping
the frightened animals than would “an
army with banners,” and it is very
fortunate that their wild career was
thus summarily checked.

 

 

The Barnes wm case.

Hon. Samuel Fessenden for the widow
and Judge Brewster for the other heirs
of “Hub” Barnes, in the probating of
the will case, are before Judge Wood-
ward Monday, examining witnesses in
reference thereto. Theodore Rodgers
Esq. swore to the drawing of the will,

to Mr. Barnes executing the same and
appointing Nelson B. Gorham and Wil-
liam H. Starr as executors thereof, etc.
The drift of the attorneys questions and
answers drawn from witnesses indicate
one line of attack to be Mr. Barnes’ ex-
treme feebleness and incompetent con-
dition. when he executed the said will.
. St. Mary’s.

Father Slocum has had prepared by
an architect skilled 1n interior church
decoration, plans for an elaborate and
beautiful altar, to be constructed 0f
the purest of white statuary marble.
Its cost will be five thousand dollars,
and if the good priest’s desires are car-
ried out 1n regard to it,
anythmo of the kind in the state.

 

Pilgrim Council 54, c. 'U. A. M.
Rev. Dr. Van Alstyne has extended
an invitation to the above Norwalk and
the South Norwalk Cquncil, to attend
a meeting at hi ih'urch on Sunday eve-

 

I have suffered from 'eatar-r-Ir of the’ rung, J‘m9 21 ’whmh bOth Councils

have accepted.

 

Give Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment a
fair chance, and it always ‘ ‘gets there”
when needed.

 

it will excel

Suicide Caused by Toothache.

James F. Creamer, 31 years of age, a
member of L. A. 3,610, Knights of La-
bor, and a cutter of shoe uppers in J.
J. Laterman’ s shoe mar. '1: mtory, 87
Bleecker street, New York, was found
dead 1n his room in James Hugh Slev-
in ’s Snug Hotel, 211 and 213 Bleecker

on. Creamer had eight teeth drawn a
month ago, and since then had com-
plained that he was never free from
pain. On Saturday last Daniel Egan,
a fellow cutter, to whom he complained,
advised him to get some laudanum, and
they went together to Kolp’ s drug store
at 209 Bleecker street and got a. half-
ounce bottle of laudanum.

Creamer was found lying on the bed
of his room with Sunday clothing on
yesterday morning, and the room was
filled with gas. He had crowded a
part of his night shirt with a blade of
his pocketknife between the sash and
frame of one of the windows. The
laudanum bottle was empty.

Egan says that Creamer was engaged
to marry a young woman named Ayres,
who works at Altman s. In Creamer’ 8
pockets were several notes from Miss
Ayres. In one of the notes she asked
Creamer why he did not visit her, and
added that it was “not proper” for her
to see him on the street. Chief Clerk
Reynolds, who read the notes, says
there is nothing in them to indicate
that Miss Ayres'and Creamer had any
trouble.

Creamer formerly worked at South
Norwalk, and his brother Thomas C.
Creamer resides at 22 Spring street
that city. His body was received here
Tuesday and interred under. the
direction of Undertaker Kavanagh.

 

The Bicycle-—Here to Stay.

Commenting on the recent bicycle
convention in New Haven the Palla-
dium thus moralizes:-—-‘ ‘Inquiry would
probably reveal that at least one-halflof
the 2,500 wheelmen within our gates
this day, use thebicycle as a practical
road machine. It carries them to and
from business or is used in the duties
of the day. Delightful novelty that a
wheel 1s, when used solely for diversion
it loses its greatest charm; and even
those who buy a wheel to furnish them
exercise soon findgefi‘ort necessary to
force themselves to a daily run. It is
in covering distances that would other-
wise be paced ofl' with human legs that
the bicycle finds its best usefulness and
permanency in the rider’s esteem. The
introduction of “safety” machines will

diversion;,and their use must increase
each year indefinitely. With the per-
fection of the storage battery, who may
gainsay the prediction that before
many years we shall ride, each on his
own wheel, propelled by electricity
from beneath the seat, and going—say
thirty miles an hour on roads prepared
for us?

value of wheeling as exercise. Thou-
sands of young people are thus strength-
ening themselves; and the next gen-
eration will give glorious results in
stronger limbs, broader chests and a
fondness for out-door-life.’
Sir William Married.

Sir William Gordon Cumming and
Miss Florence Josephine Garner, of
New York, were married at Trinity
church, Chelsea, Wednesday morning.
The ceremony was very simple, there
being no display whatever. In Sep-
tember they will sail for the United
States. The marriage was somewhat
of a surprise, inasmuch as Sir William
has repeatedly denied that he and Miss
Garner were engaged. This is ex—
plained by the statement that he
wished to give Miss Warner an oppor-
tunity of breaking the engagement af-
ter the disclosures of his cheating at
Granby Croft. It is said that since the
adverse verdict in the baccarat scandal
suit he gave his affianced an opportuni-
ty of breaking the engagement but she

refused.
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Westport Church Trouble.
The replication in the Westport
church case has been filed in the Su-
perior court by Attorney Hoyt of
Greenwich, counsel for the rector.
The replication is a general denial of
the answer, it being denied that the an-

reason of his electibn at the previous
meeting. The case will probably come
up for trial.

iden. Neither set was accepted. This
is a set back for the Hyde men.

The 250th Anniversary.

Ata meeting of Stamford’s warden
and board of burgesses held Tuesday
night, it was voted to celebrate the

' 250th anniversary of the settlement of
~ Stamford next September.
’ and civic parade will take place in the
morning, with a grand pyrotechnic

A military

d1splay 1n the evening

’ I Wished I Was Dead,

try Sulphur Bitters. Now I am well.
Three bottles cured me. —Mrs. Copps,
Newport, R. I.

 

The regular delegates from Christ
church and the delegates representing
the Hyde faction Of that church at-
tended the diocesan convention in Mer-I .

street, \Ionday, with the gas turned '

enhance the fascination of the graceful 5

His encouraging to ponder on the _

I

nual meeting of the church was legally ‘
adjourned until April 6, -;1891 that ‘_
Charles H. Jones was chosen clerk or f-
is the rightful possessor of the office by "

After suffering several years with the '
Leucorrhoea, and no doubt I would ,'
have been, only a lady induced me to

Funny Highway Robbery.

At a late hour on Saturday night
Chief DeForest saw a New Canaanite
named Ruscoe driving about town and
suggested that he get into “the bosom
of his family” with all possible celerity,
it being apparent that he was in need
of a haven of rest.

Sunday morning the worthy chief
was aroused from his slumbers by Rus-
coe who declared that when on his way
home he was robbed of about 810 by
highwaymen, who also confiscated his
horse and sulky. Thereupon the chief
went to work and after scouring the
country learned that ' the . excited
Canaanite had taken a passenger
aboard on his way home, that a quarrel
ensued and that Ruscoe took to his
heels and at a farm house made com-
plaint of highway robbery, leaving his
horse and sulky in possession of '
passenger. The lattrr waited some
time :for Ruscoe’s reappearance and
finally‘hitched the horse near the resi-
dence of “Broad River James” where
it was found and stabled for the night.
IVhen Chief DeForest ascertained the
foregoing it is said that his feelings
found vent in various phrases not found
in orthodox'catechisms.
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Head uarers or Wins

17 Main Street, N orwalk, Conn.

(FORMERLY 3 WATER STREET.)

Just Received 1,000 Doz. Hats

To sell without reserve at the Extremely Low Price of:

Former price $1.00.

 

One lot of Hats 28 cents; 3,000 Wreaths, 25 cents each; one lot 0
Fine French Flowers, 30, 40 and 50 cents each. Don’t forget
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The I One-Price I Clothiers,

HAVE NOTHING BUT New Goods IN

 

 

 

 

 

THEIR FINE ESTABLISHMENT,

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—The Newest Things in—

2

Y Neckwear, Children’s Clothing,

Shirt Waists, Ogting Shirts,
Men’s Suits, spring Overcoats
STANDARD MAKES or COLLARS AND currs,’
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