The Newtown bee., 1889-12-27
BRIDGEPORT.

Houndsman Anderson has been acqult- ted by the police commissioners, the Re publican members voting against it. John RylaIds, formerly a captain of the Bridgeport police and now conductor of the Shore Line division of the Consol- dated road, has been appointed to sue ceed Chief of Police Marsh at New Years.
 The new government building at the corner of Broad and Cannon streets has been completely enclosed with a high board fence.
 Two of the most dangerous grade crossings in the city are at West End, at Howard and Hancock avenues. Gates are soon to be placed at Howard avenue, but the other is scarcely less dangerous. Thousands of people pass daily and are in danger from the frequent extra or switching trains, in addition to the regu- lar trains.
 Mayor DeForest has submitted his re- port on the charges against Town Clerk Watson, made by M. S. Sheriden. He finds that the work should have been done jointly by Watson and Sheriden and that Watson is in no way to be criticised or investigated.
 Bridgeport has voted to insure the school houses and to offer reward for the arrest of those who set fire to the Jane street and High schools.
 The Fancher S Ten Eyck Shoe Co. of East Washington avenue have bought the paper box factory on James street and Harral avenue, to which they will remove and enlarge their business.
 Dr George c. Eighme, D. D. S., the well known dental specialist, was quiet ly married, Thursday, 18th, to Miss Mary l.. Fisher. The ceremony took place at at s'The Squirrels" Highland-Falls-on- Hudson.
 Jerome Mays banjo concerts are among the most interesting features of the Boys club and the rooms are crowded when ever May plays.
 From last place, the Bridgeport polo team crawled up, by hard and steady work, to second place, only few points behind Springfield.
 So rapidly is the new factory of the Springfield Emery Wheel Co. on Howard avenue being completed that the roof will be finished in few weeks. Carpen- ters are now at work on the interior. Ever ready to respond to the call to aid the suffering and needy, Bridgeport has done itself proud, this year. Head ed by Commissioner J. w. Hawley of the board of public charities, movement was placed on foot, shortly before Christ mas, to provide toys and other Christmas gifts for the 1900 dependent children of the city, 300 of whom are less than 10 years old. The project met with instant success and the office of Mir Bunnell, su- perintendent of the poor, was filled to overfowing with toys of every conceiva- ble description, to which these hundreds of little ones, children of impoverished parents or of almost no parents at all, would otherwise have been total strang- CTS Large quantities were accumulated and, at the proper time, distributed care fully and judiciously. The romantic charm of the mysterious visit of Santa Claus was absent, but the generous pub lie who gave and the officials who scat tered them proved excellent substitutes. It took 90 1-2 miles of paper, weighing 2500 pounds, to print 10, 900 copies of the Posts rousing 20-page issue, Saturday. Just n triflc changed from the time, only a few years ago, when few hundred copies of ts7x9, ? IS it has been called, were sufficient for the Posts edition. President Isaac Holden of the Scientif- Ic society has been asked by the execu- 1 tive committee of the society to repeat his lllustrated lecture on IA Visit to Bis cayne Bay" at some future date, the pro- cceds to be devoted to procuring cases for the large additions recently made to the collections of specimens, etc. MT Holden k m interesting speaker.
 Y. c. Bommoa, Jr, planned pleasant surpxIse st the birthday of his sister, Mrs tc. Y. nIltz.