The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1909-03-18
FAIRFIELD
tSew Aluminium Casting - The Robert
. Falton-FIags flying-New Books
Mr.. Sherwood On Onions - How to
Grow Them,

5 There is now being cast in town at
the Aluminium foundry, a large num-
Der Of the Dillock fire annunciators, as
invented and perfected by Rev. c. S.
Bullock OF Stratford. The object of
having them made of aluminium is to
secure lightness and a metal which will
not corrode in water. Heretofore these
wood, but this will be discarded. These
,annunciators are intended for the new
steamboat, Robert Fulton" which is
rapidly approaching completion. and
will be placed on the Hudson River
linz AZ many local residents intend
TO be present at the great celebration
planDsd this year in honor OF Hendrick
Hud90n, and Is others will go to Al
baay, or On route to Saratoga, on this
new boat. they will be interested to
launched at Camden, N. J.. on the goth
inst. This steamer II being built en-
tirely under cover in the great sheds
of the, New York ship-buiiding COM
pany, and as her keel was laid on jan
uary 18th. and her structure is now
completed to and including her second
deck she begins her career with a rec
ord in time of construction of a steel
steamer in commission in the day line
service on May 18th, as consort to
the steamer Hendrick Hudson
The Robert Fulton is even more up
tO-0dI6 IMAM IQo t1enQrlCA HUDSON, IN
having the very latest developments
Of practical and decorative value. Some
ono familiar with her design has al
ready classified her as "a historic poem
bound in steel and glass" The chris
feping ceremony at-1the launching will
be performed by Miss Anita Merle
Smith. daughter Of the Rev. and Mrs.
Wilton Merle-Smith, and granddaugh-
Ger of Commodore Van Santvoord,
founder of the day line. The dimen-
sions of the Robert Fulton are-Length
6Ss: feet; beam over all, 76 feet; with
four decks and capacity of 1000 pas
senEers. When the castings at the
foundry in town have been made all the
steamboats, on the Hudson river will
have been furnished with the new Dill
lock fire annunciators, to the making
of which both this town and Stratford
have contributed.
Miss Kate Henshaw has returned to
Mt. Vernon after a pleasant visit in
= Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Northrop
have been entertaining Mrs. William
Hall of Litchfield-
!. The Boyle pharmacy was about the
snly building to display flags yester-
day in honor of the day. Three large
American flags hoated from the build
ing, while the windows were dressed
in, green, interspersed with
Irish flags. Mr.. Boyle is alive to all
that is going on There is little that
is narrow or sectarian with him. He
spent y POIALOh VI yCS1OAo dy III XNCW
Haven.
Mr.. Charles B. Reed of Overlook
farm, Greenfield Hill, recently paid a
visit to his estate.
Mr. Henry L. Burr has installed a
The interior of the Brett mansion is
being decorated.
There was another dance at Pickett's
quite number of dancers came down
from Daubury.
The main street of the town is re-
ceiring a heavy top dressing of crush
ed stone
The next lecture on Current Events
day afternoon.
The Acker cottage at the Beach is
fast approaching completion. Mr..
Acker VIII soon begin to build another
Another instaIIment of new books
has been received at the library.
Among them are the following: The
Red Mouse. a story founded on the
following lines from Goethe:
Wherefore forsaketh thou the lovely
maiden
That in the dance so sweetIy sung
And Faust replies:
t.Ah, In the midst of it there,
A red mouse from her mouth sprang.
Bayard Taylor says Goethe here re-
fers to an old superstition concerning
one of the many forms of diabolical
Other books are: Tono-Bungry, by H.
4 wells: The Cradle of the Rose, by
he author of the Martyrdom of an
Empress, founded on the lines:
10 sIuulber on undoomed to die,
StrenKth, liveliness and honor high,
[eafIens and withered through the
bower, within the Rose. /
The: other new books are: Farm Ma
chinery and Farm Motors, by J.
Brownlee Davidson of the Iowa State
College: The A. B. C. of Potato Gull
ture by T. b. Terry of Hudson, Ohio;
The Climbing Courvatels by Edward
W. Townsend. and General Sociology,
which deals with the labor problem, a
large book by Albion W. Small, of the |
University of Chicago. l
Mr.. Gray of Bridgeport delivered
ecture before the Grange at Greenfield
aiu. on Tuesday night, on Napoleon. |
deeused to be a Yale athlete, so said, is
/ hne speaker and had a large au-