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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
SHELTON MAN DRANK
 BUT HOW MUCH?

Alice M. Bigelow Baldwin, of she1- ton, was an applicant before Judge Howard J. Curtis, in the Civil su- perior Court, this morning, for a di- viroce from her husband, Edward E1d- ridge Baldwin of Derby. The case was put over till next week, when her counsel, Attorney John B. Dillon is to produce more witnesses. Today was the opening day of the April term of the court, Judge Curtis com ing over from the criminal court. The applicant sought the decree on ground of habitual intemperance and intolerab1e cruelty. It was shown that MT. Baldwin had been a drink ing man, but not that he was a habitual drunkard. It was for this reason that the court advised Attor- ney Dillon to gather more witnesses to show the defendants habits for the past few years, and if possible to have the employers of MT. Bigelow present to show that they had dis charged him for being intoxicated ..This is the best kind of evidence in this kind of cases,' said the court. Wallace J. Bige1ow, a brother of the said, Ed was always un- der the influence of liquor as often as he got money to invest in it.'' The couple married in Shelton, May 2S 1902.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
BROTHER RICHARD MUST PAY MUCH TO BRO. THOMAS
Judge Wheeler Finds $5,97O.O8 Due From Richard to
 Thomas DundOn.

Judge George H. Wheeler, who 1n- ished his sitting in the Superior Court for Fairfield County, yesterday, has found for the plaintiff in the suit of Thomas Dundon against his brother, Richard Dundon, both of whom con ducted the coal business in Black Rock now operated by the Hill Coal Co.,, The court has awarded Thomas $5;- 979.OS It was in 1888 that the Dundon brothers started in the coal business. Thomas was in the grocery business on the East Eide, placing in the coal venture $4.7o0, while Richard placed $3, 900. Later Thomas raised his to- tai to $6.700. Dundon brothers sold out their interests in the coal busi- ness in 1906 to the present proprietors for the sum of S26, 900. There was also money in the bank at the time, and both brothers were Jointly interested in a house, Il which Richard reside It appears that Richard was confined in sanitarium for his health for, some time. Thomas secured S12,000 for his share, and brought action for a proper accounting. Richard had to produce the books in court.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
WILMOT BUYS OLD
 COPPER CO. PLANT
Concerns Using Product of American Tube & Stamping Company ManutaCturer Compares Relative Reccp- tiVity of East and West Ends for
 Industrial Corporations,

President Frank A. Wi1mot, of the American Tube & Stamping Co.,, has purchased the property of the Bridge port Copper Co.,, in the West End, which covers a large area, and is one of the best manufacturing sites in the city.
 President Wilmot will develop the property by providing factory sites for industries which use the product of the American Tube & Stamping Co.
 The plant of the Copper Co. has stood unused for years since the Copper Trust put the Bridgeport con- cern out of business. A part of the plant has been used,- for some years as a hot rolling mill by the American Tube & Stamping Co.,, and it is un- derstood that MT. Wilmot will con- tinue to rent this portion to the com pany-
 The amount paid for the property Is not known, but 1t is on the tax list of the city for $45,00O.
 The property has been in the market for some time. It covers 10 acres, and has buildings with 125, 1000 square feet of floor space.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01

deeper draft to go up the river to the lumber yards, without waiting for high tides. The estimated cost is SEQ, 900.
 The improvement of Cedar Creek fn- cludes lengthening the existing chan nel 2,20o feet. and digging the whole to a depth of 12 feet. The present channel is nine feet deep. The esti- mated cost is S40,00
 The proposed modification of the aar- Dor line is to be accom- p1ished just be- low the railroad bridge, where the proposed widening of 2 the channel comes within the lines. The new line will pass in the rear of the old dock, of which little now remains except the spi1es.
 The effect of continued aggression. upon the main harbor by the railroad company is pictured by Lieut.. Col Taylor. He says but little freight Is now unloaded there. except by the railroad coRpany The result of this large proportion of the ordinary com
 nerce, aside from that handled by the railroad company, has to be unloaded in the various branches. The two branches under consideration handled mere than half the total tonnage for 1908
 the public has steadily been forced out, have occurred since 1899. At the present time the only docks available for ordinary commercial purposes in the main harbor are the dock of the Farist Steel Company and a few small commercial docks
 Harbor Master Charles H. Morris, whose attention was called to Lieut.. Col Taylor's report. said: "I am very much pleased with it. The attention of the public cannot but be focused upon the process by which during many years their harbor has been mo- nopoIized, Lieut.. Col. Taylor has evil dently seen 8 great white light since he recommended the harbor line under which some 12 acres of our waterway is soon to vanish forever. but in case he has not invite him to come down here and view the row of spiles which the railroad company has driven along the line that he recommended He will perceive that the object in throw ing bulkheads out to this line is not to obtain wharves. but to obtain land. try, has a city been compelled to give tip it's main harbor in order to give a railroad company more ground to turn into freight yards?
 'sOf course the harbor that is taken is in the very heart of the city the most valuable and the most important to commerce.
 '.Lieut Col Taylor's doIeful picture of our harbor would have been much more profitable to us as a municipality if it had come two or three years ago.
 Asked. relative to the proposed change in the harbor line Harbor Mas ter Morris said:
 .HThis is apparently a change in thel line that will benefit the city. The original line has been placed so far away from the shore that it is drawn through the proposed channel.
 Incidentally I presume that the change will bring an improvement to the property of the company at this point, for the bottom dredged out may be thrown behind bulkheads that may be raised and much valuable land ere ated behind then1.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01

boys? Haven't the teeth gone out of them?
 You old fellows. whose hair is gray now. and whose teeth are being drag ged out by the weight of the gold in them, don't you remember how we played foxes tail. and how the fellow felt who got good grip on the tail?
 Do you remember those good old games we played among ourselves? :? stance. Do you remember. sire or grandpa, how the big boys came up to you and took you right in on the ground floor?
 Were going to play a. trick they told you. When we ask you will you play beetle and wedge you say beetle, quick, see. We want him to
 You saw. And when the big boy said it, you said. quick. just like that, "beetle". so they made you the beetle. and they made Bill the wedge.
 Do you remember how four big boys took you. one by each arm, and one by each leg. how they swung your legs forward toward your head until your feet were way up in the air at right angles to your body, how they swung you. tone, two, three. go'', and how the place where you. sit down came crash into the same place on Bi1l-Bill the wedge-and how you wished you were dead, for as much as half an hour afterward?
 Are things like this happening to other little boys today, we wonder? Is the light of confidence in humanity going out in other hearts because of such doings in the bright sunshine of this April 12 How many cynics, sour ed and perversed will grow up old bachelors, or possibly into trust mag mates, because of such treatment at the hands of this generation2
 It wasn't the pain of the collision with Bill. Not at all. It was the pain in the heart that grew out of the con temptation of the perf1dy of the big boys who took you in on the ground floor and played you for a sucker.
 We wonder, if most of the cussed- ness in the grown up world, doesn't date back to some such time as this when the juvenile heart of milk and kindness is turned, all in a minute to gall and worm wood, and the boy who was intended for benefactor such as great pitcher, or first base man, became all at once a soured soul ripe to be a captain of indus try. or even 9 lobbyist.
 Because, don't you know, it is April fool all the year round with your lob byist- He is fooling somebody all the time, either the people, his employer or himself and some times all three. He is the adult in the April fool business hardy biennial blooming wherever the fields of legislation are.
 But a truce to these reflections, which take us so far from the April fool world inhabited by boys We say, seboys, !" because all the April
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
PUBLICATION OF WRIT IN LIBEL SUIT IS
 CLAIMED LIBELOUS

Rev. George D. Egbert. of Norwalk, who has a libel suit for $25,0oO pend ing in the Civil Superior Court against the Hour Publishing Co.,. publishers of the Norwalk Hour. through his coun- sel. Judge John H. Light of Stamford, asks the courts permission to file a says that after the suit was brought against the newspaper, the writ was published in the paper. which he states is more libelous than the original pub 1tcation. Attorneys Walsh and Hub bell argued against the filing. the court reserving it's decision. The libel suit grew out of publications in the Norwa1k Hour regarding alleged state nents Rev. MT. Egbert made about the liquor question in Norwalk.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
WOLTER PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO
 MURDER CHARGE
Judge Mulqueen Sits Down OnJ
 Counsel Scott's Efforts to Delay Case.
STATE PREPARED TO WINI
Says Defense May Try to Prove an AIibi or Plead h.
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Especial from United PEog8. }

NSpec1AI rom United REBgB.1
 New York, April 1-ATberf VVOaee-r 4o- day pleaded not guilty to the charge. of murdering Ruth Wheeler, tae 15- year-old girl whose oharred body yFaa found on the fire escape Of his Hat last Saturday. Efforts on the part of hiN counsel, W. D. Scott. to delay the pro gress of the case by moving 60 quaah the indictment and by filing a denur- Ter were perenptori1y checked by Judge Mulqueen-
 Following the plea WOfter waa rs- turned to the Tonbs. He win appear in court again this afternoon at which time the date for the triad Will bo sst. It is expected to be April u ox dl1rinT that week
 Wolter and his counsel whispered to- gether for moment and ln ansvraE to the question of guilty or not guilty, Wolter answered without a trsmor
 T believe that the deeenva wan either attempt to prove an alfba CT plead insanity said AssistaLt Disbrict Attorney Moss. Tn either case we are already prepared to win the oaus flute the arguments along either of these lines.
 T would be perfectly satisned ie the case goes to trial on April 11.''
 Moss admitted today that ho he'd been told that Elsie Schwartz, 17 years old, who disappeared from her home early last week. had gone to Wolter's flat to look for @ position, bearing a letter written by Wolter in response to an ad. So far. however no evidence thing to do with the girls disappear ance. Scott still refuses to outline his defense, saying only that 1t win be Interesting
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01

About 800 feet of wharf property is connected with it, and 1t is also connected with the railroad by spur trackg
 This morning document was filed in the town clerks office assigning a mortgage, on the property for s2s,- 900, made by Frank A. Wilnnot, from the Bridgeport Copper Co. to The Parrott Silver & Copper Co.,, of Mon tana.
 President Wilmot said, this morn ing, that he has in mind a. concern which he will locate on the property at once.
 He said he had purchased the prop erty instead of developing the firm s East End property, because he did not think West End people would antagonize manufacturers the way the East Binders have done. He said ''The people in the East End don't seem to realize that the coming of a factory increases the value of the property near it. don't look for the opposition from the West End people that we have had in the East End, where there will be less manufactur- ing in the future than we anticipated there would be-"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
COMMISSIONERS ALLOW
 TRANSFER OF COPE LICENSE

The County Commissioners today granted the application of Henry Cope assfstant engineer at The Stratfield 9or transfer of the liquor license at H05 Water street to his property at NewdeId avenue and Rever street
 The Commissioners will go to Nor walk, tomorrow, where they will hear the reunonstrance against the applica- &9on Of John Klein, Of New Cana an who is objected to as being unsuitable Rnd as conducting unsuitable place. April 11th has been set for the hear ing in NorwaIk on the application of Michael Markham of South Norwalk In isa stated that Markham is an un-
 lie person and that his place of
 lss at 55 Water street, is un-@
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
C0LCAN READ. SPLIT BAMBOO
 GOING UP
So Ordered Three Lots of BrOOmS Valued at $495.19, Now
 Paid For.

The city auditor drew a, check today for $495.19 in favor of the New York firm who sold Former Supt. J. H. Colgan, of the street cleaning depart msnt, three lots of broons, few days apart The bill was contracted last November, and the orders spaced so closely that the brooms were deliver ed in one lot.
 Under the ordinance bids must be advertised when over $2O0 worth of goods are purchased by any depart ment The bill was held up to this time pending an enquiry. The depart ment has the brooms all right and MT. CoIgan today justified his purchase by saying: '.I read in the paper that the price of split bamboo had gone up, and that is what they use in those broomS''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
STRIKERS ON
 RAILS LAY DUST

Two tank trolley sprink1ing cars arrived here, yesterday, and were put in commission at once, sprinkling the streets upon which trolley lines are located. It is the intention of the company to keep both cars in opera ton all the time and the streets in the center of the city will be sprink- led several times during the day. There will be no place in the city on the tracks where the sprinkling cars will pass less than twice.
 Burns & Co., who have the city contract for sprinkling also began to work today. All of The wagons have feoc~> . i,seas7
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01

How Bridg9rt harbor has beer .hrottled by thrailroad is clearly tol6 n a letter ,butecently transmitted tc Congress by Pert Shaw Oliver. act ng Secretary War.
 The facts al contained in a. com nunication relive to a preliminary examination Bridgeport harbor written by LE. Col. Harry Taylor if the engineea corps. This comnu- lication is indded in the letter o1 Shaw
 Lieut.. Col. .TI1or says that Bridge ,ort harbor isEery deficient in good vharVes. open the public.
 He also show that Bridgeport once lad a large Ttion of wharfage on he main harbd which it parted with vhen the railrdi elevated it's tracks.
 He describes his transaction as fol- ows: Former a stretch of wharf long the westey side of the channel rom Stratfordavenue southerly for
 bout 800 feet Ias utilized as a pub lc wharf and he city owned a. con- iderable portioEof it. But when the ailroad compafs built a viaduct and the lotion of their tracks a ew years ago hey acquired all this and ding to the location of he viaduct, ab}t 500 feet of this wa sr front was he away with so far s wharves weI concerned.''
 sAt present, ''eontinues Lieut.. Col. 'aylor. the oIK places in the main arbor which al available for cargoes unsigned to tersons not owning Tharves are le railroad wharves amed above, ad of these the Nau- atntk wharf isnot we'll fitted to re- siye cargoes, e+ept those intended to -ansfer by rail In the Pequonpock yer the only pblfc wharf amounting , anything is tut of the Pequonnock commercial Copany and in Black
 ock that of thECrane Company
 Lieut.. Col. TaIor further declares: Additional whR room is the crying eed of BridgeIrt harbor. but it is ot apparent h0 this can be provid- l. as the railrod company owns the 1tire westerly later front from the ip aA the footof Henry street and to tk Stratford avenue idge. with theIxception of the small ater front at e foot of Wall street hich is owned R the city
 'It is understSd that the ultimate
 tention of therailroad company is build wharve along most of this ater front and hstall 3. large unload
 g plant for cod but it is not under ood that thes wtarves will offer sneraI public Utilities. Very little Sher water front Is 7ailab1e in tT1I main harbor, and 'actically nons in the Pequonnock yer, except wha is already owned by 'ivate indivfdu8 or firms, and which
 presumably IeId for their owt- ;e"
 Thus Lieut.. C. Taylor paints the ranging of the most important DOT on of BridgepoTs water way.
 He makes the complete ocelusion of e main harboHfor public use carry e burden of hiI argument for a $90,- 3 appropriationfor the Improvement
 the upper pa1I of Pequonnock river Id Cedar Greek in Black Rock har- r.
 The improvemat in the river calls r deepening tn channel for a. dis nee of 1,500 f9t to a. depth of IS ct. This work will enable boats of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
JUDGES COME HOME.

Judge Howard J. Curtis of the Su- perior Court, Superior Court Clerk William T. Havi1and, Medical Exami- ner F. B. Downs and David F. Read returned, yesterday afternoon, from a ten days trip to the South. All re- port a most enjoyable time.
 Judge Fillmore F. Banks of Fair field, also arrived in town yesterday afternoon after a lengthy sojourn on the Pacific Coast. He comes back in time for the opening of the Criminal Common Pleas court which comes in Tuesday, with Judge Walsh of Green wich on the bench.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
icH IN NEGOTIATIONS
 OVER TROLLEY EXTENSION

Al hitch in the Barnum avenue troll Hey extension program occurred yes 4erday, when the Stratford selectmen Hailed to reach an agreement with the officials of the Connecticut company relative to land damages, if any should be occasioned by the construc- kton of a roadbed with 12 feet of ma eax7an on either side of the tracks. Superintendent e. H. Chapman is of. fhe opinion, however, shat the diff Aerenoe will be soon be adjusted
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
KIDS OF TODk WORTHY
 SCIONS pF THEIR SlRES
Glancing YoutEward Recalls the Happenings sn This Day in
 Years Int Are Gone
WERE YOU CAUGHT MAPPING?
For of All the Days for Franks None Comp;res With This
 = April Tools Day.

Drop that foot! l Don't kick the hati Man. you had a narrow escape. There's a brick m that hat You can't see the bricl2 No. bat you can kick the brick and if you do your toe will hurt. So thernan didn't kick the brick and the heats of the six small boys just around the corner felt a sinking feeling. Hut it lasted only a minute, fo~ along came a younger man, who noisted lis right and let her drive. Gosh. how It hurt him.
 Although the man had kicked he had no kick coming. foI it was April Fool day. Besides, this man had been a fool ever since he vas born. And he knew it. Therefoie he dropped his aching pedal extremity to the ground and linnped away, tying to look as if nothing had happened- A wise man would have chased the little rascaIs, and would have been still wiser for nose erect. thumbs up, fingers sextend- ed. and all tor him. This would have removed his mind from his feet, He could have had pains in his brain pan, and the Ooyswould have laughed themselves almost to death-
 The morai of this little but true story is that it's better on April to be a fool with the others.
 The old Jokes are all good today. They all go if you're not watching.
 The brick in the hat. the hot penny, the pocketD 1ok With Fhe Strlng 10 It.
 Who walFed up street this morning wearing a f7ign kick me-, or, as in the sad caoe of a pretty East Side school maar.l, kiss me- Many would, but none dared, because. even on April Fool day. pretty school maarn is an object of terror, andxn2ne not lightly to be trif1ed with, ey r Rhen off duty, for of course this is # ion time in 
 But it does seem a % Apld prac- tices of the immen1d H 4 3Aare dy-. ing out Does it see E Jokes were as rltIsn fro41<z a # were
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
COMPANY BIDS ON FOUR
 SUBMARINES Will Build Them at Bridge port for $432, 300
 Each COST MORE ON PACIFIC Electric Boat Company Also Bit ders, But Figures
 Are High
(spe .ia1 from United Press.

Washington, April 1.-Bids were opened a the Navy Department today for the 4our submarines for which Congress appropriated S2,000,000 last year. TTae Lake Boat company of Bridgeport, Conn, offers to build four submarines of type AZ at Bridgeport for $432. 5aG; or at San Francisco $461.- GOO each.
 The Electric Boat Company of Quir- ey, Mass, submitted bids on four boats for 46O tens each, type A26 to be built at the Tore River Shipbuilding com pany yards for $456, ,5oO each and type 26 B of 467 tons for $453, 800 each; or at San Francisco or Seattle for $476,- 600 and SAYS, 900 respectively.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
NOTICE.

The German American Democratic Association will hold meeting at Ger mania hall. Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Every member is earnestly importance is to be acted upon.
 LOUIS SCHWERDTLE, Pres, GEORGE L. SCHNEIDER Secy.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
O,NEH A NOTARY.

Charity Clerk Dennis D. O'NeiI was, today, sworn before Assistant Superior Court Clerk Fred W. Tracy, as a notary public. His commission will be of assistance to him in his new work with the Charities Department.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
TAYDR TELLS HOW RlLROAD GRABBED
 ! BRIDGEPORT HARBOR
When hduCt Was Built Hundreds of Feet
 of 'ubIic Wharf Were Destroyed.

Practically Mining in Main Harbor that Public Can UseMost Car goes Nottonsgned Railroad Are Unloaded in the Upper Part oPequonnock River, or in Cedar Creek-Harbor Mast Morris Says, 'sPity Lieut. Col. Taylor Didn't
 See the Light Three Years Ago.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01

wANTED.-Two young men for weighing stone in quarry. Apply 122 Bank St. U wANTED.-Position as superintend- ent or foreman, general utility road a speciality. Address Roads, care Farmer Office. $ 2S d*p WANTED to lease, with privilege of buying, farm within trolley dis tance of Bridgeport, must be good location, good house, etc. Address with full particulars. Enwot F. o. Box No. 264. Bridgeport, Conn.
 U b DO ENGRAVING on watches. silverware and Jewe1ry, Dog Collars, etc, done at reasonable prices. Door Plates. Metal Checks, Stencils, Seals and Stamps The Schwerdtle Stamp Co.,, fl Cannon St. U d FOR SALE@To close the estate of the late Ellen Bradshaw, 2 family dou- ble house with all improvements Lot 50x106 situated in one of the fin est locations in city. Near Wash ington avenue. Inquire G. L. Bradshaw. agent, day or evening, 1057 East Main. corner Arctic St.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01

BRIDGEPORT Housecleaning Burear
 Ashes rubbish removed 4S8 New field avenue. Telephone 1s16-5. RalpH L. Miller, Prop. Eo
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01

GARAGE FOR RENT at Seaside
 call R. w. Kippen. 472 Waldefrarss Ave. da
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01

TO RENT.-Desk room with ro desk. 416 Warner Building
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
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FOR SA1E.-7 room cottage, Brook lawn. all improvements. $2,5oO. wat son, 83 Fairfield Ave. aep FOR SALR-2 family house, 18 rooms Rented $58S- Watson, S3 Fairdeld Ave aaD
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01

PIANO-Upright Shoninger $s5. VVs
 expect to sell this instrument to the. first conner. The M Stefnert G. Sonsl Co., e15 Main St. 2s dso'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01

GOOD SECOND HAND National C.a Register for sale cheap. Ad
 Register, Farmer Office. S
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01

WILLIAM J. MEAD. Rents. Real Fs- tate and Insurance. Room BIO New Aa-1A H'--,--a,aa~- P tf