3 cts. WEEKLY -'NORWALK - GNZETTE. 3 l N\ Nil" a N" Solo Everywhere. soon marines, is}: no W. BAKER & (in... toooo , from which the excess of '. oil has been removed, is , Absolutely Pure . and it is Soluble. No Chemicals. are used in its preparation. It has more than three times the strength of Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far more economical, costing less than one cent Ct cup. It is delicious, nourishing, strengthening, EASILY DIGESTED, and admirably adapted for invalids ras '~.‘-.'e.ll as f or persons in health. EEC-3‘3, by Grocers everywhere. *TFAKER & £13.. Einstein. first. son, , spoonful. best and cheapest medicine. Try it, and you will be satisfied. Get it of your Druggist. If on are sufl‘erin from Kid- ne iscase, and wigsh to live to 01 age, use SULPHUR BlTTEltS. They never fail to cure. 3 2-cent stamps to A. P. 0rdway do Go. 3383?, Mass" for best medical work publishedf w. 11. MEEKER, Plnnhinn, Steam and Gas lilting SOUTH NOR‘VALK, CONN. Sanitary Plumbing and Ventilation and Low Pressure and Steam Heating. a Specialty. PLUMBERS’ SUPPLIES. Pipe and Fitting for Steam and Ga GENT for the FLORIDA LOW PRESSURE BOILER. Facilities for cutting andthreading all kinds of Pine. 50tf BUlthNG LOTS (ON INSTALLMENT PLAN.) FOR SALE. On -:- Wilton -:- Avenue. APPLY TO Binaries Olmslead or 0. E. Wilson. E. eusowsxi: MERCHANT TAILOR. Is ready to show the Finest Stock of CLOTHS,CASSIMERES AND OVERCOATING And a great variety of Fancy Pants Patterns E. GUSO‘VSK], Corner Wu] and Water Starts. nnw npnnnons. The Water Commissioners and Engineer Wood Have Found Six Eligible Sites. No Need of Any Water Scarcity. The water famine Of the past season imperatively admonished our Borough‘ authorities Of the necessity of at once hunting up some larger and more abun- dant source of storage supply for the needs of our rapidly growing town. To this end wide inquiry has been made and excursions and personal visitations had to numerous eligible properties lo- cated to the north and east of our two present storage ponds. Engineer Wood has given all his spare time the past three or four weeks to viewing and tak- ing the levels at suitable places, and the. Water Commissioners and members of the Court of Burgesses have visited some six different spots where a new reservoir of adequate size for all possi- ble contingencies can be very judicious- ly and reasonably located. Probably no town in Connecticut- is blessed with so many good and surpris- ingly eligible spots for so cheaply con- structing a large storage reservoir and where the abundant and never-ceasing supply comes from pure, living, spring water. The most remote locality that has been surveyed is just a little south- east of the old Russell Mead home- stead, where Wat-er Commissioner Frederick Mead was born. This is 10- cally known as the “ Spectacles ” from the fact that it is one vast amphithea- tre of about five miles circumference and its topography outlining the shape of a pair of spectacles or nose-glasses. It is in Nod school district; about ahalf mile east of the main road from Nor- walk to Ridgefield and some two miles south-east of Ridgefield street. Here the land is wild and of little value and the high bluff banks surround it in all but one spot of some two hundred feet in length where the hills close in a gorge and the living and never-dry stream flows soulhward to what is known as the Keeler or Seymour saw- mill. It seems as if nature had ex- pressly built this for a great storage reservoir for some large town of a hund- red thousand people. This location is on an entirely different stream and source of supply to any running into either the Lewisboro or Grupe reser- voirs,which is an advantage. But it re- quires not only a twenty-feet dam in perpendicular height, and extending one to two hundred feet across, but a cut through a ridge on its western side of at least sixteen or seventeen feet depth and from a thousand to fifteen hundred feet in length, in order to get it over into the Brown brook that runs down from the Bald Hill district to the Grupe reservoir. It is the fact of this costly dam construction and cost of the deep-cut, that makes the selection of this spot of questionable expediency, although the land. which is almost to- tally worthless could no doubt be purchased at a very low figure. After taking the levels of the Specta- cles, Mr. Wood next turned his atten- tion to the deep valley swept by the BrOwn brook. in rear of Old Bald Hill. Here is a vast area that can be flooded. Indeed, a reservoir could be put here that would store water enough for New York city for months, the only limita- tion being the size and cost of the dam. Mr. \Vood suggests that a dam Of mod- erate cost would store here all the wa- ter we could possibly need for several years to come, and this dam could be enlarged from time to time, as our fu- ture needs required. The land at this point is of considerable more value than at the Nod or Spectacles location, but there are no cuts and a quite inexpen- sive dam would in all probability answer for many years yet to come. , The next entirely feasiblelocation for a new reservoir, is still further south on the same stream, at “Ruscoe’s.” This wouldbe evenless costly,nearer our Grupe reservoir, but smaller than either of the above, yet even this would store five times the water of the Grupe pond. An even less costly location than the Ruscoe. is at the Old Forge, just above the Curtis Finch saw-mill. This would be nearly as desirable, and less costly, but of smaller dimensions than any _ of the previously described locations. The next spot, following the stream down to Grupe’s, is the site of the old Curtis Finch saw-mill and almost im— mediately at the upper end of our Grupe pond. This is the place the GAZETTE urged, with all the force it was capable of, for adoption, . when the lit- tle Lewisboro site was so unfortunately selected. This Finch saw-mill site can be purchased at a very reasonable price, all the additional land needed procured cheaply, and a dam of moderate cost put up, so as to make this a very desirable location. The last and probably the best and the saddest of all locations is the na ture’s vast basin just above Daniels’ mills and some two miles this side of the Grupe pond- For here it is that all the money spent in the Grupe dam, and pond, the Lewisboro folly and the large sum spent in piping down from this point up to Grupe’s should have been spent in building one large reser- voir. Engineer Bissell of the Hartford water works, Engineers Wood and Bi- der, all agree that this was the spot that at the outset,should have been purchas- ed and utilized. Here a reservoir of any capacity desired could be built, the size and quantity of water stored only being limited by the area and ex- tent of darn it might be deemed wise to erect. . Water in a reservoir here, at Dan- iels’, would easily flow into our distri- buting reservoir, would have been at two miles less distance from the Bor- ough ; was capable of unlimited ex. tension, and had the needed land rights been purchased at the outset of our wa- ter-works enterprise, they could have been secured. at a very moderate sum. But now land-holdershave advanced the price Of their holdings, and while it is unquestionably the best spot of all, our Borough is so heavily handicapped with sewer and other debt, that our tax-pay- ers will not consent to the purchase of any but the cheapest location for its needed new reservoir. The question of cost is to be carefully considered in re- spect to all the above available sites, and the one costing the least will be adopted, for any one Of the six loca- tions named will amply supply our needs. __._.______‘- >——-———— M ore About Water. EDITOR DAILY GAZETTE : - Your reservior article of Monday was quite exhaustive in telling us where ad- ditional ones might be constructed that would furnish water in abundance. So far, so good, but is not this the same story which has been told to a suffering and patient people, for the last fifteen years? Another reservoir and all will be well; then came the new pipe line to make things doubly safe; while thirdly and lastly, a reser- voir site has been found that will make a sure "pop.” that will end all troubles, and bring to our souls the comforting assurance of Mother Goose : They lived in peace and died in pot-grease. For fear that ,this happy state may not come just now, I would most hum- bly suggest that the water officers be- ginarole that has never been prac- ticed in this Borough. Take the peo- ple into their confidence. Tell us all about the whole matter. We pay the money, and are entitled to a fair con- sideration. If one goes down to South Norwalk, he can find out by asking, that their reserVOir holds from 770 to to 780 millions of gallons, nearly a two years supply for their wants. That looks like business. Aman very near to our water ad- ministration says that had it not been for the extension out of the Borough limits, tO-wit, East N orwalk, the extra thirty thousand dollar pipe line need not have been laid. and of course no new reservoir would have to be built. Had we not better sell these pipes to South Norwalk, and give up the baga- telle of rent which we now receive from those out of town neighbors and strictly attend to looking after the water interests of our own people ? It looks to me Mr. Editor that if we want to save ourselves from financial prostration, there must be a decided change in the public management of this Borough. FANNING-MILL. ‘ “Home Again, Home Again. from a Foreign Shore.” Mr. George Clarke reached New York in the Etruria late Saturday,witb the Daly Company. His welcome presence will now greet us again here in Norwalk, as he is thoroughly en- thusiastic in his determination to make the Amphitheatre grounds one of the most attractive pleasure resorts any- where within fifty miles of New York. He commenced negotiations for the re- building of the bridge from the grove across to Riverside avenue, prior to his leaving London. His company commence to play “Taming the Shrew,” in .New York Wednesday evening. with Miss Ada Rehan as leading lady. Accident to the Brooklyn Water Works. A telegram was received here by Mr. Van Buren, Saturday afternoon, sum- moning him to Brooklyn, in conse- quence of a serious accident to the city’s chief water main. A cave-in oc- curred in laying a new pipe beside the old one, which caused the large supply pipe to burst and flood the trench dug for the new line, carrying down huge piles of dirt and burying some half dozen laborers, four of whom are known to be dead. The city’s supply is so endangered that orders were this morning issued to stop all uses of water for boilers or manufacturing and' for family washing, until the breech is repaired. Killed at Noroton. Charles D. Kelsey, a brakeman of the Consolidated road and who resides at New Haven, was run over and in- stantly killed near Noroton about 5 30 o’clock on Sundaylafternoon. Kelsey was engaged in uncoupling one of the cars when the engine gave a sudden lunge and threw him off the platform and under the wheels, which passed completely over him, nearly cutting him in two in addition to cutting off his right arm. Death was instanta- neous. Kelsey had been on the road but a short time, having previously been employed as a clerk in a New Haven clothing store. He was quite well known in that city and was a mem- ber of the New Haven Grays. Kelsey’s family resides in Clinton, this state. «Ono—~- A Wilson Point Tu'g Stranded. The New England Terminal’s Tug Intrepid, with a car float in tow, in at- tempting to come up the Sound Sun- day to Wilson Point, went ashore on Gangway Rock in the fog. The crew, after drifting about on the float were finally picked up by the tug John Hal- liance. The Intrepid lies in about nine- teen feet of water. »—~~————-< . »~-——-———-—- Handsome Versus H omel- J Who is that fine looking lady that we just passed, Clara? Why, that is Mrs. Snow. Well, there, what a change ; when I saw her last, her skin was so sallow and muddy looking, it’s no Won- der I didn’t know her. What has pro— duced that lovely complexion ? I heard she took Sulphur Bitters, the great Blood Purifier, and now would not be without them. »—~—~--——--- -—<+ pa» - - ~~ When I began using Ely’s Cream Balm my catarrh was so bad I had headache the whole time and discharged a large amount of filthy matter. That has almost entirely disappeared and I have not bad headache since’.——J. H. Sommers, Stephney, Conn. ‘ OBITUARY. CHARLES L. WARREN. Another of 'Norwalk’s favorite and promlsmg young men, has paid the debt of nature, just as the prizes of life were opening to him their most glitter- ing allurements. Charles L. Warren was the son of William Warren of Orchard street. Several months since he was attacked with la grippe, which developed into quick, or that peculiar type of consumption, which has taken away so many of the bri Vhtest and best young men of Norwalk, during the past few years. Resolutely fighting his in- sidious disease and hoping against hope, exhausted nature gave way to the unequal struggle and his pure spirit took its flight at a quarter to six Tuesday morning, be leaving a young wife and little boy to mourn his untimely de- mise. He was in his 27th year. For the past ten years he has been employed at the hat shop of Crofut & Knapp ; the last four Of which he was book-keeper. He was married five years ago to a daughter of Mr. Martin Kellogg. He was beloved by all who knew him and his death will be widely and sincerely lamented. The time of his funeral will be duly announced hereafter. JOHN S. TROWBRIDGE. This venerable and prominent citi- zen _of New Ganaan, died at his home in that town on Saturday in the Slst year of his age. He, for more than a half century, carried on the tannery business near the foot of Canoe Hill, so called. Formerly he was an ardent Jackson democrat, but when the great Washingtonian temperance move swept the country, he became an intense temperance advocate and in 1856, an equally zealous an ti-slavery republican. He was a life-long subscriber to the GAZETTE and for full fifty years its col- umns have been enlivened, from' time to time, by his quaint and original con- tributions. For years he has suffered from a kidney affection, which finally ended his earthly career, yet like a shock of grain fully ripe and having Won the very acme of earthly fame——an honest man—he has. after a long, ac- tive and useful life, “stepped from earth to the skies.” Peace to his ashes. MRS. ESTHER BOUTON. This Oldest resident of New Cana In, died at her home in that village on Sun- day, in the 96th year of her age. Only Sunday week, she in good health. at- tended the two hundredth. anniversary of the organization of St. Mark’s Church, of which she had long been a member and in which she felt a deep and abiding interest. She undoubted- ly exerted herself beyond her strength on that occasion, as she has been per- ceptiuly declining since, until the death angel came and gave her aged spirit re- lease and bore her to realms celestial. She was the aunt of Norwalk’s First Selectman, Oscar W. Raymond. ROBERT TAYLOR SHERMAN. Robert Taylor Sherman, of East Orange, N. J., died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William E. Ross, of Elizabeth, on Thursday last. Mr. Sherman was of Old New England stock. His grandfather was Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His father was Judge Charles Sherman, of Siiifield, Conn. Mr. Sherman was born in Sufiield in 1855. He was a second cousin of Sena. tor John and the late General William 4 T. Sherman. , Hon. Samuel G. Beardsley, town clerk of Trumbull, died suddenly Sat- urday, of heart disease, aged sixty- seven years. He leaves a widow .and three children,Judge Morris B. Beards- ley, of Bridgeport,MissLouisa Beards- ley and Mrs. Louis Curtis, of South- port. The deceased had been promi- nent in Fairfield politics for years. He represented Trumbull both in the House and Senate, and held most every office within the gift of the town. James F. Brooks, a prominent citi- zen of Stafford Springs, is dead, aged 75. He held the patent on the Brooks’ road roller, which is sold in all parts Of New England. Mrs. Eli Parmelee, of Guilford, is dead, aged 90. Until recently she was as smart and bright as most women are at 60. She was the widow of Deacon Parmelee, an influential and highly- honored resident of the town. Mrs. Julia Bishop, Of New London, was nearly 93 years old when she died last week. She had been a-member of the New London Second Congregation- al Church since 1835. Her mother died. at 94 years of age. . Hugh Fuller, of Somers, was 93 when he died. Up to the day of his death he had worked daily all his life and never had been sick. His father lived to be about 100 years Old. Miss Mary Sumner, the oldest resi- dent of Abington, Conn, is dead. She had been a resident of the place all her life. She was 92 years old. Mrs. Sophia P. Camp, of Newington Junction, Uonn., was 94 years and 8 months old when she died. , Mrs. RoSwell Terry, the oldest per- son in Simsbury, Conn.. died last week aged 90 years. Fire at Georgetown. On Saturday evening a barn belong- ing to Edward Smith. in Georgetown, was discovered on fire. Willing-hands were successful in rescuing the stock from the conflagration, but were an. able to extinguish the flames. the build- ing being destroyed. There was no insurance. ~-———--<+ 1 "'as Disgusted with the learned doctors after swallow- ing their costly medicine in vain for over a year for the relief of catarrh in my head, when I cured myself by us- ing six bottles of Sulphur Bitters. My wife is now taking them for nervous debility.—Abiel Carter, Parker House, Boston. All disorders caused by a bilious state of the system Can be cured b -using Carter’s Little Liver Pills. . 0 pain, griping or discomfort attending their use. Try them. None but- the brave attend the church fair.—Elmira Gazette. Clara—Towser knew you were com- ing. He recognized your name when we called it. Tommy (breaking in)— Yes, we said here comes that feller that’s goin’ to get left on Clara, and he wagged his tail.-Yankee Blade. “Are you glad school has begun again, Willie?” “ Yes, sir. Very.” , “ I am glad to hear you speak so.” “ Yes; I’m awful glad. Me and Billy Jones can play hockey now whenever we want to.”——Puck. W.B.Hal|&Co.: BRIDGEPORI. 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OUR CLOAKS, trimmed with Astrakan, Sable, Mink. Persian Lamb and Russnan Martin at $15, $20, $25 and $30 cannot be matched in the state for the price. W B. HALL :2: 00. TH . M. ii MUMPANY. B r 1 d. g e p o r 1: . OUR FIRST BIDDING IN " J " ’ " en E R E, S S . Gr Q @ D :9: Is 25 pieces of TREPTO W SUITINGS that are all wool,'in stripes, plaids and mixtures at 30 GEN TS. Tapestry Brussels, 50 cents per yard. Body Brussels. $|.OO per Yard. RUGS AND CURTAINS Especially Cheap. FUR TRIMMED JACKETS. GKPES. - FURS. To describe all the new shapes and styles would take quite a spac ' They can be seen to good advantage in our Cloak Department. THE D. M. READ COMPANY. GennnalGnant’sMelnoins, Original $7 Edition for 30 Cents. 0 BOOK, excepting the Bible, has ever had such a sale in the United States as General Grant’s Memoirs. 650,000. copies have already gone into the homes of the rich, but the subscription price of $7 has placed it beyond the reach Of people in moderate circumstances. 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