Connecticut western news., 1906-11-22

Wm. A. Haulon, express clerk, spent the Sabbath in West Cornwall and Shar. on.
 Night operator Harry w. Yost wit messed the Yale Princeton football game Saturday.
 The installation of the semaphore sig nals at the junction is practically con- pleted.
 The widespread interest in the ques- tion of tho betterment of freight facili- ties on the New York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad, was shown Monday, when out of the twenty-four local busi ness mems associations in the state,- eighteen sent representatives to the meet ing held in Hartford, which was called for the purpose of trying to find some solution to the perplexing problem. The association complained of slow freight delivery, breakage, insufficient depot facilities and poor help on the railroad and in the yards, and after all the testimony was in, resolution was adopted providing for a committee to discuss the matter with the railroad com panies.
 New Books for the Library.
 Following IS the list of books that will be placed in the Douglas library on Sat urday, November 24.
 The Connecticut River, Garrick and His Circle, By Italian Seas, Historic Buildings of America, American Slave Trade, Book of English Gardens, Heretics. Literature and Lifein School, The Flock, Leo Tolstoy, Appreciation of Pictures, Charles Francis Barnard. Beethoven, Man and Artist, Mozart, Man and Artist, History of Music, English Hours, In Old Connecticut. Upton Letters, Life of the Bee, Sanity of Mind, Australian Life, Peoples Natural History, volumes.
 FICTION
 Mayor of Warwick, Tides of Barnegat, The Man in the Case. A Woman's Will In old Bellaire, The Tower, The Spirit of the Pines, The Woman in the Alcove, Anthony Overman, Set in Authority, Joseph Vance, Wood-carver of 'Lympus, Sanna, Power Lot, The Lady of the Decoration, The Clammer,. The Incom- plete Amorist, Ring in the New, When Grandma was Fourteen, The Girl at the Halfway House, Hearts Desire, Story of the Cowboy, Susan Clegg and her Neighbors' Affairs, Seeing France with Uncle John, Lame Dogs Diary, Prisoners, Balance of Power, The Pass, Out of Due Time, Puck of Pook's Hill, Poet and the Parish, The Fugitive, Opened Shutters, Distractions of Martha. JUVENILE.
 Boys Life of Abraham Lincoln Rristy's Rainy day Picnic, With Lee in Virginia, Boston Town, Borrowed Sis. ter. Dave Porter at Oak Hall, Under Togo for Japan, Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales, Brown of Moukden, Polly and the Aunt, Fairy Tales. Boy Craftsman, Our Army for our boys. Letter From Former Resident The News has received the follow ing letter from Ovid P. Gillette, a former Canaanite. who now resides in Danbury:
 q moved from Canaan the spring of 'S8 and for the last fiftten and one half years have been employed on the Danbury & Bethel street railway. It has been a trolley road since Jan. 1, 1895 During the time that I have been driver and motorman on the road I estimate that have run about 100000. I suppose there are lots of steam road men that can discount that and very likely a good many trolley men also, but 1t represents good many starts and stops and good many anxious moments, especially on the trolley, looking out for careless drivers, people and children, and good many turns of the brake and also good many times of reversing the motors to make quick stop to keep from running over someone. You will also see this distance IS about sixteen times around the world.
 "I have carried the same watch all the time and have probably looked at it about 800,000 times. That would take about three and one-half months of ten hours each working day. It seems enough to wear it out but it is still about as good timepiece as there is on the road, though like its owner it is getting a little shopworn. Have also carried about 100000 pas sengers in this time and none of them have been hurt except by their own carelessness, and those only slightly. I consider that I have been quite lucky.
 "Now if any old motorman read this I would like to see some of their | figures, just to see how they com pare"