The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-10
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE
 ALL AROUND TOWN


 nert. The city also pays for the, use of phones in the police department and III other branches of the city govern nent. The telephone company pays 1othing for the use of the city's
 treets- Wouldn't it have been g. great
 tunt for the city fathers of the old
 avs if they had said to the company, You can use our streets if you give
 S free service in return, and pay us
 irge bonus besides.
 Among the items that the Board of Apportionnoe ent put on the fire depart unnoticed are such items swater s2oO.'' This is the amount that the city pays for water for it's f1remen to l9athe in and is not included in the s12, ,000 water supply item that shows on the list. The latter is solely for l1ydrants. The ten enef inc houses have Seen metered and the cost of water is S20 a station on the metered basis. al though each fire company uses no more water than the average family. The Hydraulic Company tried for awhile to ston firemen from opening nearby hydrants to wash down the sidewalks in front of the stations. The city pays $12.50 year for the -hy- drants but the company gets that any, way so it preferred to have the water used for washing the sidewalks pass through the meters
 Most of the taxpayers are not aware that the eneine houses and other nnu- nicipal buildings are metered. One would think that the company after getting paid for hundreds of hydrants the city doesn't use would be able to throw in the water used in the engine houses for good measure.
 There are many people who do not think there is a chance for a young man in Bridgeport. Less than 20 years ago one young man came here with write his check for any amount up to 9 half million dollars. It was hard sledding at first and the wife of the man with the $1 100 often was the meal ticket for the pair by going into the factory and kicking drop press for $7 a week. Now she has a flock of automobiles and society women say she is just lovely. But the people who like the woman who saved the day for her husband best are the sales people in the stores. They are all because of the fair treatment she gives them. The clerks don't know that the reason they like her more than other wealthy won7en is that she once worked for a living.
 The starlings. those black birds with yellow legs that associate with the sparrows. and stay with us in in creased numbers every winter. are now singing their love songs. For about five or six weeks in the early spring these. purple black birds are adnira ble songsters. but after the mating season they don't seem to even chirp until the next spring rolls around.
 In one of the local department stores there is floorwalker who can keep a small piece of chewing toba eco con cealed in one corner of his mouth al day. He has felt for several years tl7 at no one ever knew he chewed to- bacco. One day last week he spied the jaws of one of his best looking saieswon1en in motion He stepped up to the girl and said: Don't you know that it is against the rules to chew in the store?"
 The girl leaned over the counter and said: ttI'H throw my gum away if you throw away your tobacco.'' The floorwa1ker wes suddenly called away. Both he and the girl are still chew ing, and they eye each other sharply when he passes her counter.