The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-10
SEEN and HEARD

Supt. Frederick Schrieber says that l street flushing is the most effective | way of cleaning streets and costs about one-half the expense of using sweeping machines. He is flushing the dirtiest streets once a week but is not able to extend the flushing operations to other thoroughfares be- cause of e lack of funds If the
 permanent paved streets are not flush ed next year it will be because the Board of Apportionmsnt does not ap- propriate the money to do the work. Much complaint is heard at times because street cars do not wait at
 transfer points for passengers. Often car will turn into East Main street
 as Stratford avenue car approaches. Passengers on the Stratford avenue
 car with transfers often see the East
 Main street car go up the street
 without waiting and they are forced
 to wait until the next car arrives.
 Did you ever stop to think of the
 work doctors do for nothing? The
 other day Goodwin the Holyoke pitch
 CT was struck on the back of the left
 hand by wild ball thrown in prac-
 tice. Two bones were broken. Dr.
 Robert Keane was the first doctor to
 arrive. He set the bones and when
 he had finished the ball player said,
 Much obliged Doc" you're well come,'' replied the doctor who went
 to his favorite seat in the grand
 stand. During the year every doc tor treats a number of patients in emergency cases and receives no fees for his work.
 A French woman by the name of Collett desiring to telephone to Fair
 field this morning went to the Post office to get telephone. She had never used telephone in this coun- try before and as the telephone sys- postal service and under government control she supposed that the same condition existed here. The attaches of the post office assisted her in mak- ing the call she desired with the postmaster's telephone. It will un- telephones in this country are under government control.
 Captains of tugs will persist in of- ten times being an inconvenience to the travelling public. The New Ha- ven~ trolley which leaves this city at 8 a. m. on it's arrival here makes con- nections with the New York boat, as also does car arriving from Anson- ia and Derby. Yesterday morning both of these cars were held up at the lower bridge by a tug which wended it's way out into the Sound. The delay resulted in the missing of down with bag and baggage.
 Great stuff to be called on the phone and asked, When is 1t go- ing to come off?" The first impress sion one gets is that of some event which is soon to he held, if at the time he has such thing in mind. Why didn't you tell us about it, you're great guy, etc?" Then fol- lows considerable talk back and forth,
 finally the original question appearing before the one questioned that it had been nosed about that he was to be knowledge to him. And to think the poor fellow had no such intentions. He feels like laughing it off at first start, but when he dabbles into the seriousness of it all he is mad clean through. A young man about town met with this setback yesterday. At the present writing he is willing to of it a1l But the world goes on just the same.
 Among the Bridgeporters who are following the Crippen case, none has paid so much attention to Inspector Dew's work on the case as has De- tective Sergeant Edward Cronan, In- spector Dew is one of the leading sleuths of Scotland Yard. More than a decade ago when Sergeant Cronan went to England to claim the custody of Dr. Nancy Guilford when she had been apprehended by the British auth critics for her connection with the death of Emma Gill, he formed a fast friendship with the Scotland Yard sleuth. In the interval that elapsed from the Bridgeport detectives arrival in London to the time that he was permitted to take the fugitive into custody, he was a frequent visitor to Scotland Yard. He has a profound for the methods of the