The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-15

Bridgeport, who is Major GladWin's yoke fellow in the Army and Navy club, served in the Fourteenth Con- hecticut regiment, which fought with great heroism and splendor at Antie- tam. He was postmaster at Bridgeport for years, making an able administra- ton in the office. The colonel belongs to that small but noted group of Ma sons in the state who have received the thirty-third degree. He was on the staff of Governor Jewell, and has long been a favorite of the old Jewell element in Connecticut. M
 The Hon. L. P. Jones of Greenwich, who was in the state senate in 1883, has returned from the south, where he 1! has spent the winter, recuperating from a severe sickness that has prostrated him in November. .EHe has been in Washington, D. C., recently and is now regaining strength and Vigor. Senator Jones is one of the foremost physicians in Fairfield county, and has met with marked success in his chosen field of activity. He was an able senator, counting hard work in behalf of the state a pleasure. and a privilege. His
 record as a hard worker in the senate has seldom, if ever, been surpassed. ; Senator Arthur L. Clark of Winsted chairman of the committee having the investigation of the fee system in charge, has been in Florida for two months. After his return to the state the work of the committee will be talk a,, vo,a4hoIfoa11xy Int fnractincr rn- suits are expected, particularly with re- gard to the fees received by county sheriffs and probate judges. The com- mittee's report will be made to the gen. eral assembly of 1907. With Senator Clark at the head of the committee thorough work is counted on by the friends of reform. He was senate chairman of the committee on military affairs during the session of 1905, and made a most creditable record. It was through his leadership mainly that an unfavorable report was made concern ing the Main street site in Hartford for the state arsenal and armory. This site had been recommended by the state commission that was appointed by the general assembly of 1903. A man with less decision of character than Senator Clark would not have yentured a cam paign against the recomHlsndations of the commission, which had tho back ing of strong advocates at the capitol. Senator Clark held the opinion from the start that the Main street site was not the one that would serve the state the best, and carried that view to q successful issue. Heis a man of back bone and determination. It is on this account that hegis expected to goGto the bottom of the fee system evils in the state. His associates on the committee are William H. Warner of Woodbridge and Frederick A. Scott of Plymouth. MT. Scotot is a lawyer by profession and has an office in Hartford,
 The work of the state boundary com mission, Governor Henry Roberts, At ,torhey General King and Frank c. Sumner of Hartford, will be taken up by the first of April, and the surveys and readjustment of boundary monu- ments resumed. Under Engineer Buck of the commission the indoor work has been kept up through the winter with successful results. fhe outdoor work was begun last fall, and will be advanc- ed as rapidly as possible after the sur veying forces get back to the field.