The Newtown bee., 1888-06-15
BRIDGEPORT.

is doing q satisfactory business. A re- porter who called there, the other day, found that the machinery and tools were being moved from the second to the flrst floor, where the location is pleasanter. James A. Wilson, formerly of NewtoWn and universally known as Lawyer Will son, is interested in the business and his helpers are well versed in the art of elec- trotyping. The process of electrotyping rests on the fact that metals held ill so- lution may be deposited by the action of To make an electrotype% of a form of type, q wood engraving, or another electrotype requires but few hours. The article to be electrotyped is placed. face downward, upon a sheet of beeswax and heavy pressure applied, a reverse duplicate of the or iginal form. All low places have to be built mp with wax, so that, when printed, nothing but the surface of the type or cut will show. This wax impression is placed in a machine which coats it with black lead, after which it is placed in bath of sulphate of copper and magnet ized by an electric current from dyna- mo. After remaining here about two hours, coat of copper, precipitated by the electricity, forms an exact duplicate of the wax. This is removed by the ap- plication of hot water ,scoated with muri- atic acid and covered with tin foil, which acts as q solder. Laid on it's face, elec- trotypers' metal, composed of the same materia as type metal, is poured into it. When cool, it is shaved to the proper thickness, trimmed and finished, after which it is smooth shaved and is ready to be blocked. If a wood base is requir- ed, strips or blocks of wood of the requis- ite size and proper height are provided and rivets driven through low portions of the metal; on large plates these are supplemented by screws. Metal bases are much more durable and the electro type will always work better, but they are more costly. The old way was to cast the entire body at once, but the mod eIn method, which gives better results, is to prepare the plate as for wood, then heat both it and the metal base and solder them firmly. This firm is doing deal of work in the various branches for city printers, who are glad to avail them selves of the opportunity to secure elec- trotypes without the delay of sending out of town.
 The case of George F. Cook and the Yellow Mill pond has been reported upon by a committee appointed by the Super for court. Mr Cook is given $353l, of which Bridgeport gives $305l and West
 
 S40, ,OOO and will remonstrate against the acceptance of the report.
 John F. Kelly, who recently returned from Falls Village, was at his Newtown home, Sunday.
 The foundation has been laid for d new house. corner of Main street and North avenue.
 Bridgeport's metropolitan preparations for grand Fourth of July celebration | lend interest to an account of her Fourth in 1884, as found ill Farmer loaned the BEE by Mrs Philo Northrop. Bridgeport
 was then a growing borough of 25OO peo
 pie, having risen from no inhabitants il
 l790, less than 100 years ago, to 25O il | 1900, 556 in 1910, $40 in 1920 and 1913 il
 1850. The place practically began witt
 the century, for the first bridge was l built across the harbOr in l793; LaZru!
 Beach printed the first newspaper il
 1795; the borough Originally Newfield
 was incorporated in 1900; the first Epis
 copal church was built in 1901; the frs
 Congregational church in 1903, by tht
 society formerly worshipping at Strat
 field; the Bridgeport bank was incOrpOr
 ated in 1906; the Methodists buil5 il
 1923. Bridgeport, then of l700 popula
 tion, was set off from Stratford and made
 a town ill May, 1921, at which time ther were 2lS houses, besides stores and fac
 tories and a grand list of $24, 900. B.
 October, 1883, the houses had increases
 to 41S the list to $44, 900. The PequOn
 mock Mfg. Co., built factory at Thatch
 erville in 1928 and a daily line of steam
 CTS, Nimrod and Fairfield, began to pl
 between Bridgeport and New York i
 July, 1884. So that Fourth of July, 1S34
 found the prosperous young borough jus feeling it's oats and ready for a hurra
 boys that would make Judge Shade CUTS his grandmother.
 $. Lounsbury was postmaster her then; W. B. Dyer, Joseph Thompso were druggists; Munson Hinman keI Wa shington hotel, destroyed by fire tn Fall before; the merchants were Hull
 bell & Thompson, c. Brooks, Stanle , Lockwood, Samuel Niles, J. c. Basset . J. Sterling & Son, R. Hyde < Co.,, Lew 2 Burr; in the grocery line, Isaac H. Whi I ing had just taken Joseph Thompson F stand in Water street and there wei r Thorp S5 Hawley and John B. Sanford
 in crockery and hardware are advertise
 Shelton & Thatcher, T. & F. W. Hay i ley, E. J. Porter & Booth; boots a1 h shoes, Daniel Mallery agent, George - Sanford of Union block, State stree
 Nathaniel Ruggles, who also advertise e Methodist books, Samuel Hodge, Ale = ander Rlack; furniture dealers. Thoma s Curtiss & Co.,, two doors east of u | North church, Parrott & Hubbell, Ro I ert J. Thornburn making chairs on W r ter street, two doors south of State; ta h ors, $. NJ. Middlebrook, C. Tomlinso e Kirkland & Platt; Everett and Phl e Lewis, Minot & Hamilton dealt in luI
 I tnn nTaI A II. q Hawley had formed the firm of A. Ha'
 lev & Co. in the same business. J.
 Baldwin and $. Lockwood sold book
 Daniel Curtis did stone cutting; to Ne
 York by stage to Norwalk thence
 boat was 25c. E. G. Noble advertised 5 private seminary in which William T. Noble was assistant, NJ. M. Morenti
 professor of French and Spanish. Thol o as Hawley advertised the annual me- h ing of the Bridgeport Whaling Co. 70 70 Horace Cooks. W. G. Sterling and P. V Wheeler had just formed the firm of ,' G. Sterling S5 Co. $. & T. T. Wilm d,' had jewelry store at E. < E. Cam
 old stand, where they advertised fiji
 rate lueifer matches. Bridgeport m' S. chants, then as now, were generous $ H. vertisers and the city was alive to do J. self credit on public occasions.
 L.. That Fourth of July, 1854, was ush q. ed in by changing bells and boomi I. cannon and the cannon roared afre B. about o'clock when the steamer Sup
 for brought in a New Haven militia
 company and their friends. Col Robb
 and Mai Hamilton, marshals of the q;
 welcomed the visitors and they were or corted through the streets by Brid b. ports military. The military, visito
 the borough's one hand engine tastefu
 decorated, boys with a miniature engi 0 or borough officials, veterans and citiz 1T formed procession at Il o'clock, mar
 ing from Washington hotel to the No n Congregational church. Here the decl na ation of independence, rusty relic l,se out of use, was read by William as ns Noble, with an oration by George .rs Wood. Eioquence was always on taI an public occasions then. Then for dim