The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1890-05-02
Officer Schumacher is occupying his
nleasant new home on Elmwood avenue

pleasant new home on Elmwood avenue.
After 20 years of faithful service as
fire commissioners, President Samuel
Baldwin of the Connecticut National
bank has resigned. He was the only re-
naming Republican ON the board and did
not care to remain where he was in SO
hopeless minority. Chief Gerdenier of
the fire department, also q Republican,
likewise had his resignation present.
ed to the common council at once. He
intimates that, should Republican board
of fire commissioners again come into
power, he would be candidate for the
Office of CHIEF, which he held for q years.
Politics seem to have crept into the board
to an unnecessary extent.
Some good is coming from the agita-
ton in favor of early closing, for num-
Der of stores in all branches of trade have
agreed to close early four nights week.
The trouble is caused, however, by the
few who decline to do so. 1t has been
suggested that n part of the clerks in
each large store be allowed to leave ear
ly on certain evenings, taking turns dur
ing the less busy evenings.
One of the remarkable features about
G. W. N. Yost of the Yost writing ma
chine works is his ceaseless endeavor to
find something better than he already
has. Not content with evolving, in sue
cession, some of the best type writers the
country has ever seen, he has brought
out the Yost writing machine and came
to Bridgeport to perfect and manufacture
it, in the old Sharp's rifle factory, once
away out of the city, but now in the very
heart of West End. This machine has
met with deserved and increasing popu-
larity and was, in fact, regarded as so
so near perfection by many that some of
the directors and officers of the company
objected to any further experiments, be-
| lieving that the machine was good
enough for anybody" 1t is now an
nounced, however, that a new machine,
embracing many improvements not found
in the present Yost, will be manufacture
ed and large orders are said to have been
booked.
Chief Rylands deserves credit and
should have the aid of every law abiding
citizen to help in his noble work. His
wholesale attack on the saloons is suffic-
lent evidence that he intends to use every
effort to enforce the law and we hope that
in the near future people going to AND
from their places of worship on Sunday
will be able to do so without seeing ever
one unfortunate individual staggering
through the streets.
One of the most reliable men among
our city sheriffs is John ii. Cole, recent
ly elected. He has lived in Bridgeport
the past 40 years and has served most oil
the time as conductor on the HousatOnit
railroad. He is Il member of Pequonnocl
lodge, I. O. O. f. and thorough Re
publican, although no politician
[Standard.l He is, moreover. a genial
whole souled sort of a man; the kind o
a man you like to meet.
Mrs p. T. Barnum has gone to Paris
for short time.
Cashier F. n. Benham's handsome res
idence on Linden avenue is nearing com
pletion; he expects to occupy it abou
the middle of May.
The Springfield Emery Wheel Manu-
featuring company has begun to remove
its machinery from Springfield to it,
large new factory in the West End. Thu
land occupied by this plant was bough
from p. Il. Barnum, who has furnished
some of the money for erecting the build
ings. The firm has employed So hand
in Springfield, but the number will b.
largely increased at once in the new plan
here. Many of the help employed a
J Springfield will follow the company t,
this city Farmer.
Judge Sidney B. Beardsley, who diet
suddenly, last week Thursday evening
of pulmonary apoplexy, 67 years of age
was born in Monroe, son of Judge Cyru
III. Beardsley, who moved 10 Bridgeport
about 1850. Graduated at Yale, Sidne,
b. studied law with Reuben Booth 0
Danbury and hung out his single a
Norwalk, where he was judge of pro
bate. After locating in Bridgeport, Co
S. b. Sumner and Mayor DeForest wer
among Judge Beardsley's law partners
He served in the State Senate, was. de
feated lor Congress by w. fl. Barnun
and was appointed first to the bench o
the Superior court, and then to that o
the Supreme court, from which he re
= signed, last year. He leaves a widow
one son, Edward Beardsley of New York
, two daughters, Mrs Charles F. Wood ant
| Mrs Heminghaus.
Charles S. Cole has had plans made b,
: c. L. Beardsley, Jr, for five frame cot
: tages on the corner of Park and Woo,
avenues, Is 1-2x43 each. They are com
? Portable and convenient houses of 81.
: rooms each and will have furnace heat
; slate roof and modern improvements. M
| Cole will offer them to rent when com
, pleted. III. III. Nettleton is the builder
, - Real Estate Record.
Poor Country Roads.