The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-09
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE ALL AROUND TOWN


 Two we'll known men bear the same surname. One of them is politician and somewhat of a boss on a small scale. The other bearer of the name is a factory hand and prominent fra ternally. A few days ago they met and the factory man said, Say wish either one of us had different names. Do you know that when your name gets in the paper along with that gang of yours people think it is me-
 The politician looked at his name sake in the eye and admired his nerve. your name it would be agreeable to me, for then there would not be so many bills and dunning letters coming to my house through the mails
 Up on Old Mill Green park the kids have the sap running down the bark of the stately maple trees. The young sters drive nails into the trees and then work them lose leaving hole through which the sap OozeS. The youngsters put their lips to the holes and imagine they gre are getting maple they leave the holes in the trees from which the sap flows. The practice is not good for the trees, but the children who know no better are not prevented from driving many nails as they like into the trees.
 There are two home owners who re- side in street near Beardsley park who paid approximately the same for their building lots and the same for second district line and the other is in the First district only. The fellow in the first district only has every improvement his neighbor has and he pays less than half the amount of taxes He has a great deal of fun over the matter and asks the other taxpayer why he don't move over the line.
 Troneymen and automobilists believe that the nerviest kids in the town ire quent East Main street, where they not only run across the street, in front of the cars, but they get in the street and dance in front of the approaching wheels and then jump aside with the alertness of a Spanish bull fighter, just in time to escape being knocked down. One day last week, just north of Og- den street, a crowd of dancers were making the motorn1an of a south bound car run very cautiously, for fear #of knocking one of them over and fac ing a charge of nanslaughter for reck- lessly running the car. The car was hardly going over five miles an hour and the motorman nervous1y beat "a tattoo upon his gong. Suddenly one of the freshest of the kids tripped in front of the car He fell between the tracks and was rolled about a half dozen feet into mud puddle. He was picked up covered with mud and bru1s- ed. He had the sympathy of every one who gathered about him and one of the oldest citizens of the section declared that motornen do not care whom they run down.
 A few days before an automobilist whose. car was danced before by a pack of urchins shut off the power, and jumping from his seat gave chase to the daring band. He caught one youngster and laying him across his knee gave him a sound spanking.
 A small independent builder. discus sing the trades union movement, in this city, said, Many of the men who belong to the unions have built homes of their own and then they want bar gains, the same as anyone else. One man who is a carpenter built house and the only thing union in it was the carpenter labor. The plumbing, ma sen work and painting was non-un- ion. As long as he kept faith with his rwn union he thought everything was lalI right. Another union man who went into the building business per naits every bit of work on the build ings he constructs to be non-union ex- cept that of his own craft The poor management of the unions in the build ing trades and inconsistency of the members in supporting union princi- pies has put the structural trades where they are today. If the clique that runs things had not fought eE- erybody in their organizations in or der to get control the open shop would not have the strength it now has in the city. Good mechanics who believe in the union are not going to be fight ing for the organization and at the same time fight a clique inside of the building trades organizations. If the clique was as effective in securing bet ter te1ns from the employees as they have been in keeping control of the organization there would be kick from the union men or those who want to employ union labor"
 A West End woman has in her house what she calls singing mouse. For long time she was attracted during the afternoon by a strange purring sound. One she saw a mouse gambo1- ing rs bout on the carpet and the strange purring sound came from the direction of the little animal. The sides of it's cheeks seem to vibrate while the ami nal is making the sound. The woman now feeds the animal and will not allow it to be trapped.
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