The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-24
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE ALL AROUND TOWN

There Is one of the new conductors who believes in playing safe when ne issues tra 7fers in a rush, There IS place on the transfers marked "erer- Kencys to be used in case there IS no certainty about the running time or the cars or in case of accident or breakdown. This new conductor punches everything at emergency ne eays that 1t saves time and does hoI put any of his passengers to the cha- grin of having a dispute with the con ductor it is being presented so' tn fact there is no time limit " ne transfer during the day There IS no doubt that this new fare collector who has devised a few rules or his own to avoid trouble will be mace ac- Quainted with the rules or the com rany Of course the riding public would like a transfer issued good for the entire day upon which it is s- sued.
 If there could be an exhibition held of inc penmanship of the children ag- Cd 13 and 14 in the local public schools and every child was obliged to put his work on exhibition it is question whether the public would be satisfied with the general results It happens thai in the past when there has been exhibitions Of children's work only few samples Of the best work done In each room have been selected to pc shown State Agent Giles Potter or the State Board of Education has a poor opinion of the penmanship work of the local school children He comes to this city once a week to issue per mlrs to children of fl years ana over to 20 to work providing he Is satisfied they are that age and have the con sent of thelr parents. The agent ashs all these applicants to write their names or do some little exercise and when the majority of these little writiers have finished 1t is almost an inpossiblity to read what they have written Yet in most instances the youngsters have written the best they known how in order to escape going to school any longer.
 prominent physician and former member of the board of education de ciared himself the other day on the otlestion of the board of education. He said It was all right to have practical men or the school board but that the majority of them should know some thing about education He thought that Bridgeport had reversed matters and that the men who understood edu- cation were in the minority on the board Further he said that the sys- tenn of electing members Of the board was all wrong. He believed that the making of nominations by both parties should not settle the matter. In his opinion each party should nominate three candidates and the two candi- dates receiving the largest number or votes on each ticket should be elect ed This would give the electors some choice In the matter. In city con- venrion of either one of the big parties the selection of a candidate for the board of education Is left to a nomina- ting committee The result Is that a handful of men select the men who are no handle the largest item in the am nual budget, for the nomination Is equivalent to an election. The doctor says these conditions should be chang
 At the last meeting Of the Common Council a contractor in the building trades was among the spectators. An other onlooker spied him and point ing him out to a party of friends said: "A fellow who worked for him fell on the roof When 1t came time to pay off that week the boss wanted to know the time he went over the caves in order that he would know the ex- act srnount to take out of his enve- lope-"
 .-If the people walked as much as they used to before the coming of the trolley cars there would not be as big a gale of patent medicine" said phy- sicfan yesterday. Almost everyone who lives over ten minutes walk from work rides on the cars and after a while wonders what's the matter with his stomach and liver. IL would be better for them if they walked"
 One of the greatest pedestrians In the city Is hunchback who resides in Goddard avenue north of Old NH Green and who works in Warner P-os- Twice a day in all kinds of weather he walks this distance of about three miles each way and gets his lungs full of fresh air. Despite his physical de- ficiencies he Is able to do the work of a man and eat three square meals a day If he rode in the Cars every day he would probably be sickly like some of the ordinary mortals whom God gave a straight back If this hunch- hn1 off Gfw miles dav and get benefit from it why wouldn't oth- CTS benefit from it. Besides the hunch- back has saved enough money to build three family house that brings