The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-15

judgment there were four other school
 houses which needed them. These are
 the Center school, the Greenfield Hill.
 the Stratheld and Nichols Terrace. The
 School Board is not sure if all these
 school houses should be provided with
 escapes. He would like to have a
 committee of expert firenen examine
 the buildings and make a report. MT.
 w. O. Burr, one of the school board
 said that the law is that there must
 be fire escapes where the building is
 over two stories high and there is but
 one exit. There are two school houses
 in town which have but exit-the
 Southport and the Greenfield Hill. pr.
 M. V. B. Durham had reported to the
 Board that the exit of the Greenfield school is just above the furnace, where
 a fire is sure to break out if at all.
 He thought the place q trap. Ex-Se- 1ectman Wakeman wished to know
 how many children there are on the
 upper floor of the Greenfield Hill
 that the number is 65. Finally Judge Perry moved that the school commit
 tee be instructed to provide fire es-
 capes where in it's opinion they are
 needed. And subsequently, the town appropriated the sum of $700 to pur- chase fire escapes. It was estimated
 that to place them on the Southport school will cost S2OO and on the Green field Hill school. S100, according to the number of platforms Each addition
 al platform costs S100 extra Some gentlemen thought this a pretty steep price.
 As a mere matter of form and ac- commodation the town voted to per- init the Selectmen to borrow the sum of s1O,000 for a period of three months, giving the notes of the, town in the so that the selectnen can go on with their work This resolution was adopted without discussion.
 Some of the gentlemen present at
 
 Charles D. Jennings, MT. Sturges, MT. Hawkins, MT. A. B. Wakeman. Repre- sentative Pease, Selectnen Fox and Rowe. MT. T. Forsythe. Mir B. Betts, Tiff, Robert C. Hitchcock. I. N. Book, J. w. Perry, Joseph I. Flint and oth- CTS.
 There was a ru1i1or in town to-day have taken place on the 18th inst, at Perry's hall, has been postponed for the present. If this is true it will gratify many good people,
 The funeral of MT. Patrick German. who died in Southport. aged 7s. takes place tomorrow morning from St. Thomas church.
 It is thought the Greenfield Hill Country club will give minstrel en- tertainment sometime next spring. Mrs. W. H. Wilson is training choir of young ladies to that end.
 A queer thing happened in town on the n1SnC MT. w nIdker was recurring in Southport on the care of trees. As will be remembered the night was very stormy and dark. Taking ad vantage of that circumstance some one went into the grounds surrounding the home of MT. A. Holland Forbes, on Main street, and pulled up and car ried off some thirty or forty young apple trees which he set out last fall. and in which he took a good deal of pride. He was congratulating him. SeI that had survived what proved to be a very open winter. There was a clothes line in the yard, stretch ed from one pole to another, and this was taken and cut up to bind the ed off on someone's back. for MT. Forbes coachman has been able to trace footsteps in the soft soil for considerable distance. There may be protect trees from the San Juan scale, or how to prevent apples from being stolen, but these sink into insignIf1- canoe when it becomes a question of the holes were left. There is a strong suspicion as to who took the trees. There has been much stealing of all sorts of things in town, but this is the first time an apple orchard has been stolen and carried off. The trees were l brought from New York last fall and l set out. It is understood that Mir | Forbes has given orders for the erec- l U around his land. Evidently the peo- pie must take some measures for the 1 protection of both their property and their lives.
 Because the ice crop in this town was ooor it does not follow there will be 10 ice next summer. Mir. Benjamin F. Bulkley, the ice man, has recently bought 1.2OO tons of ice in the town ! ,f Winsted, and will have good sup ply for his customers. There has been l m abundant crop of ice in that far ,ff town, and evah now it is said ice 4 inches thick can be cut from the ponds.
 A number of townspeople went to Bridgeport on Friday evening to lis en to a lecture on liquid air. In the company were Miss Caroline Betts. NIT. B. Betts. Howard and Winfield | Thomas. It has been suggested that he same lecture be given in this town, IS 1t is deeply interesting and few people have ever seen liquid air.
 MT C. O. Jelliff thinks it may be lalf a dozen years yet before he moves lis plant from Southport to Bridge ,ort He is well satisfied with his present location.