The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-18
E.. H. DILLON & co.

ing job in Water street. The speaker
 referred to the constant hammerins
 which corporations have undergone
 Some of them, he stated, are acting for the people to Complain to the utili-
 ties commission to get after these
 wrong doers.
 Normand F. Allen of Hartford, ex- president of the State Business Mems
 Association, in speaking of the ef. forts of the Business Mems Associa. I tion of the State to bring about 6
 utilities commission, referred to State Senator Judson as a future candidate for Connecticut Governor and United States Senator. This announcement was greeted with cheers. He also added that the State association had no more loyal support for the utili- ties bill than that which came from the Bridgeport association, stating that Bridgeport was entitled to three-quar- ters of the credit for the establishment saying: ''In spite of the campaign of education conducted by the Business Mems Associations there are many men in the assembly who were dense in the matter"
 Senator Judson began his remarks by saying: T may as well be candid in addressing you. That spirit of can- OOI NOulPClS IuS lO Say CO you tHdC penned the words which have just been spoken by Mr. Allen" He stat ed that the Business Mems Association has two objects, one for social pur- poses and the other the making of it. self force in the political movements of the commonwealth. The Senate leader cautioned the association not to take itself too seriously, not to stick out their chests with that feeling of being "H.''
 T should caution you," he said, that there is a budding rival across the raging, waters of Bruce,s Brook Coming over on the car you saw the frame work of a. future factory, which in short while will belch forth it's dense columns of smoke in rivalry with the puny chimneys of Bridgeport. Pride goeth before downfall and a naughty spirit before destruction We have now a Board of Trade which has for one of its objects the taking over of such parts of Bridgeport as seems desirable to us. Unless you get on your seven league boots you'll wake up to find yourselves surpassed by your neighbors.''
 In referring to the associations eff forts for a utilities commission, the distinguished Stratford citizen said: 3You have identified yourselves with an unbiased political movement. Such movements are for the salvation of the State in making for the betterment of political government. A citizen has not done his duty when he has cast his ballot, he has just started He must reflect upon and watch the standard of the men he has elected. I feel that a great victory has been achieved. Don't let there be any retrograde step or dispersion in the ranks now that you have accomplish ed this victory"
 Theodore B. Ford, a member of the utilities commission, was present and was called upon. He stated that he had never made a speech in his life and did not intend to start at this time. He was but a new man in public life. Tn his service on the railroad commission over 300 measures had been acted upon with but the reg istration of one objection, that from Bridgeport. He referred to his col leagues, Messrs Higgins and Hale, as honest men who had been called upon quite often to assert themselves and were capable.
 With the closing of Commissioner Ford's remarks, President Bolande then adjourned the outing till next year.
 The general committee in charge of the affair included: R. T. Whiting chairman; George R. Burnes, secre- tary; E. l.. Graves, George R. Craw- ford, c. L. Gaylord, James Feeley.