The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1909-05-01
DIFFICULTIES
WHICH MUST
BE OVERCOME
Serious Proposition En-
cages Attention of Fire
Commission.
Teams Left Standing
In Crowded Streets
Drivers Of Fire Apparatus
Figure In Hazardous In
cidents - Thoroughfares
Must Be Freed of Conges-
ton.

The time is fast approaching When
the police commission will be obliged
to provide a larger traffic squad than
that needed to guard the crossings at
Fairfield avenue and Main street. At
the meeting Of the fire commission last
night it was decided to invoke the aid
of the police in order to clear the
streets of vehicles left standing in the
thoroughfares every day in the week.
The principal causes of complaint are
in Middle and Cannon streets where
carriage shops and livery stables leave
wagons standing in the street with one
wheel on the sidewalk and the other
in the roadway Very often the We
hicles are left two abreast making the
street narrow for the passage of teams,
congesting traffic in general, and not
leaving room for Ere apparatus TO
pass if drawn by a three horse hitch.
Going through Main street between
state and Congress streets, Wall street,
Middle and a few other of the streets
in the center of the city on rapidly
moving apparatus is about the most
risky experience that the firemen have
to contend with. Wall street and
Main street are public hitching places
for people who drive in from the coun-
try and it is a. common thing to see
score or more of patient looking horses
feeding at noon time in this citys bus
mess center.
The owners of the skinniest horses
usually pick out the best looking build
ing in town as a background for the
pictures. Our rural visitors think 1t
improves the digestion Of their animals
If they can feed in front OF one OF the
big department stores or one OF the
marble bank buildings. Hydrants are
favorite hitching places for many peo-
pie and they get insulted if there is a
fire in the neighborhood and a fireman
moves one kind of a plug. In order
fhn fire
plug.
Before the meeting of the fire board
last night Thomas Weller was exon
Grated from blame for smashing the
glass front out of the truck company's
door at Fire headquarters. He ex-
planned that in driving out of the door
of the house that the wagons left
standing in the street across from the
engine house obliged him to take
short turn to save his horses from
injury.
Whenever there is an accident in the
department the commissioners are go
ing to make it point in the future
to summon the member Of the depart
ment connected with it to appear be-
fore them and explain the reason. Last
night Walter Frank of No. truck
company was fined two days pay for
allowing horse he was leading to
bin. A hoisting apparatus was neces-
sary to extricate the animal.
Maurice Reilly who was driving No.
truck when the driver of a brewery
wagon drove into the apparatus in
Hallett street was excused after ex-
planning the situation. John Sulli-
van hoseman with No. Company
who lost a wheel off the hose wagon
by getting caught in the car tracks in
Main street was warned to be careful
in the future.
T. J. Walsh, driver of No. s hose
wagon was reprimanded for colliding
with a fence in the yard of the Elec-
trio Cable Co., on the night its plant
was afire. He explained by saying it
was very dark and that the horses
SHE'D.
AS the department has not had a set
of rules published since 1877 the COM
missioners are now preparing to re-
wise the old rules and issue a new book
including all of the rules which have
been enacted since that time. Conn
missioner F. A. Strong is compiling
the book.
The board decided last night that
Supt. Barnes of the Fire Alarm Tele-
graph was entitled to more salary and
it was voted to recommend to the
board of aldermen that the salary OF
the superintendent be made $1,000 in
stead of 81, 200.
At the suggestion of Commissioner
George E. Crawford about 5000 will be
spent in remodeling No. house which
is one of the old type Of houses, and
not arranged for full company of
permanent men. A new toilet and
btah room will be installed, and
cod yoo,,, dttod nv, in the havIOft of