The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-14
STAMFORD
Value of a Milking a Bicycle - Money the End-Life vs. Properly Parish Election of an Infant Personals.

l HI a SUI dhSS TePll0Q llldl ue 0iO
 not feel altogether a stranger as he
 knew Dr. Packard before he left Sy.
 racuse; he knew of the great work he
 had accomplished in that city where | he is still honored and respected. He
 felt that as a young man coming in- to New England to preach he would
 still be under the care of Dr. Packard.
 ''I realize he is anchor,'' MT. Rich | ardson said, "who will hold a young | man true In speaking in this fa- | miliar way to this club you will not
 expect a man to go into strange fields.
 but that he will tell you of what he | knows. There was a man who was | trying to sell another bicycle. He
 said to his prospective customer, 1 Wouldn't you look like a fool trying | to ride on the back of a cow?' and the
 man replied. I'd be a fool if I tried
 to milk a bicycle I have seen some
 thing of the problems men have to face
 in this industrial world. Today there | is broad aspect for church work. What is the real worth of man? It | is measured not so much by years as | by what you accomplish. Poe, at the
 age of 35. wrote the Raven, and he is | regarded today in Europe as the fore
 most American poet. He reached a great height at an early age. Young men are now taking high places in all | the walks of life; all are looking for an excuse to live a little longer. But
 pose. use up so many months or years of my life for money. We es- innate everything on the basis of l money. When a man has been pro- noted we ask what salary does he get. Not long since saw New York from
 the top of one of those motor busses. The man who announced the sights as we rode along said: That is the house of MT. So-and-SO; it cost $780, 900; that is the house of MT. Blank, it cost two million: that is the Lenox Library, it cost millions more.' We measure man by the sense of money | t1,<,f TD,. great many serious problems which face us in this country and no one can say how we can solve them. We must think of these things seriously and try to meet the issue when it comes. I was once talking with manufacturer in Syracuse about using a smoke consuming device for his plant. He said: You can never con- vince me that I should use one for the purpose of preventing the smoke from fouling the air, but if you can show me that can save money by using one I will get it at once. With me it is entirely a commercial cOnsidera- tion. It is none of my business what the effect of the smoke may be upon the health of the people of this city, Such a man considers the money end on1y.'
 Again MT. Richardson spoke of a man who runs a plant where there is much polishing of brass. Some of the wheels were provided with a suction
 
 and kept it from the lungs of the worker. MT. Richardson noticed that in another room where but one or two polishers were at work there was no suction funnel. He asked the reason. The reply vas that it did not pay to place the suction apparatus on but one or two wheels to collect the particles of brass. The contrivance was not used for the benefit of the employe- only from a commercial standpoint. When 1t came to be a question of dollars against man, the man had to go under.
 Life is worth more than property" said MT. Richardson, "and we must stand on that basis. Men on the street say of the churches, you have your principles, but you do not apply them to lfe.' There must be some | kind of fraternalism in these days. | We must give something of our lives to the boys who have no fathers. Boys go wrong from environment and not | from desire" The speaker hoped that | in time there would be a juvenile court | in Bridgeport, and he spoke with en- | thusiasm of the Big Brother move | ment in New York. He admitted that | defective and said in conclusion that | we must stand together on the prob lem of what we are going to do with our boys and girls.
 At the parish meeting of Christ | church on Monday the following of ficers were elected for the ensuing year: Senior warden, Walter Wilcox son; junior warden, John E. Holmes; clerk, Charles F. Judson; treasurer, Frederick c. Booth; vestrymen, Geo. H. Booth, D. L. Rhoades, William HI. Fryer, G. Y. Edwards, Fred Townroe. E.. H. Lietell, Fred c. Booth, Charles Wilcoxson, A. Der. Wheeler, L. H. Todd, Herbert Doolittle, Walter Blam- ely, Lasker K. Whitney and Charles F. Judson. The music committee con- sists of E. H. LieteH. F. Townroe and Henry Powell.
 The May meeting of the Mems Club will be held at the residence of Geo. w. Spall. As it is the annual meeting, and the last for the season, a large att tendance is anticipated.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Harris, on their way to Dover, N. H., are stopping for some time in town.
 Miss Grace Dosch is i'll with the 
 MT. Pritchard, the plumber, has de- cfded to move from Longbrook avenue to the Beardsley house in King street.
 Yesterday MT. B. E. Anderson, the lost boy from scarlet fever.
 There will be a. special meeting to- evening of St. Johns lodge.
 MT. and Mrs. Hass of Devon, have g. little girl which has recently come to them.
 It begins to look as if Longbrook lay or two ago a bakers delivery wag- on and private carriage co1lided. A wheel was taken off the carriage.
 John Maroney was the man who got into the cooler on Saturday evening. He was a little too spirited and pro posed to clean out the place where he bought his spirits. As he had money enough to take him within sight of Boston, a town in Massachusetts, he was told to get out, and he went.
 A Stratford man who had been hav- ng a good time was rounded up in Bridgeport a day or two ago. and ' brought before Judge Foster. He Is put on leave.
 Tomorrow at the chapel there will be ! sale of delicious food, all home made. Drop in and get a. cup of tea
 Robert and Fred Lewis and Ruby md Gertrude Avery and Everline Ferry have returned from Washing