The Newtown bee., 1889-07-05
BRIDGEPORT.
pRonIBIr1oNIsrs IN coNyENrIoN

 Representatives of the Prohibition par ty in Fairfield county met in St. JOhn'a hall, Bridgeport, June 24, to organize for the amendment campaign. E. z. FL lis of Danbury was elected chairman. Telling speeches were made by Mir Lin coin of the Connecticut Home, Mrs l.. E. Bailey of the Union Signal, Col Cheves, Col Marvin Knowlton, Rev H. A. Delano and others. The report of the commit tee on resolutions outlined the course of the party during the amendment cam paign as strictly non-partisan, the home committee was adopted by unanimous vote. Two hundred dollars was voted as Fairfield county's offering to the amend ment fund; $l30 of this sum was pledged at once by the towns represented. Thor ough work is planned for the campaign. Several speakers are already in the field and many more are coming.-[G. I. c.
 Your committee on resolutions beg most respectfully to submit tor your favorable con sideration, the following:
 Resolved, That our faith in God abides un- faltering, and that our confidence in the right eousness and ultimate triumph of the right the saloon over the home in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island,
 Resolved, That we enter the approaching nents ot the proposed constitutional amend ment, not as a distinctive party in politics, but as patriots and homeloymg citizens Zens, irrespective of political creeds or pro clivities to eiectually banish the monster curse which has too long been permitted to exercise it's baneful influence upon the Nation.
 Resolved, That the plan of campaign first suggested by Professor Dickie. and ably ex- comments itself to our best judgment as both feasible and prophetic of good results. being creeds and parties can heartily unite without detriment to party affiliations.
 Henry Oesau, the East Bridgeport newsdealer, has bought lot on Ogden street of James W. Beardsley.
 Amol Burger has purchased standing grass of c. W. Tator.
 George W. Hills of the Sunday Item has sold his four-family house on Noble avenue to c. NJ. Gerdenier. X. D. Canfield of St. Johns choir sang at the Washington Park M. E. church, Sunday evening, and delighted his many | listeners.
 The Baptist Sunday school of East Bridgeport will picnic at Parlor Rock, 25th.
 Russelrs tack shop is about ready for machinery.
 We always knew that George W. Hills of the Post was an energetic fel- low, always up to the times, and we are not surprised to learn that he has pur- chased Columbia safety bicycle. We fear, however, that the machine will be- come discouraged when George W. takes it into the country and it finds Hills above it, hills below it and hills all about.
 As a public fire department, Newfield Hook and Ladder Co. of East End has ceased to exist and the truck and chemi- cal apparatus are at the quarters of No. 3, on Middle street. The company will probably be continued as a social organi- zation.
 Norwalk newspaper men were defeat ed to by the Evening Post nine, Sat urday.
 An exciting runaway and collision, between one of G. +. Cooks horses and a car horse, occurred on Fairfield avenue, Saturday. The car horse was hurt and Howard G. Hubbell, who stood on the front platform, badly bruised.
 Richard Guy, Virginia young man, $15 check.
 Secretary W. E. Colley of the Y. NJ. c. A. has visited in Rhode Island.
 M. J. Griffin, formerly principal of the Summerfieid school, will remove to Portland, where he has an excellent position as principal of large school.
 Among Bridgeporters who passed n successful examination for admission to the Sheffield scientific school at Yale is Paul Sterling, son of Julian 1T. Sterling of the World.
 Harbor Master McNeill says that Bridgeport needs an appropriation of $150,000 for harbor improvements. In the first place, a large sum will be re- quired to complete the channel to the Berkshire mills, which has already been dredged as far as the horse railroad bridge, where work has now stopped. Again, a triangular basin on the east side of the harbor is needed for the ac- commodation of storm-bound vessels, for which there is often no room on the west side. A similar basin should be ex- cavated sbelow the Naugatuck dock and there would then be ample room for the hundreds of vessels which always seek Bridgepert's safe harbor iu severe storms. But the greatest improvement of all is the proposed strengthening of the channel, from the light house to the inner beacon, saving considerable time for steamers. Surveying for this is not yet finished and it will be some time be- fore action is taken.
 TRUMBULI.