The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02
LIGHTNING KEEPS
 WESTpORTERS LODGING
Most Vivid Pyrofecfnic Display of the Year-Trolley Passengers Keep
 Their Heads-Circus in North Main Street.
WESTPORT

WeStport, Aug. 2.-While it lasted "Wednesday evenings downpour was the heaviest fall of the season. The rain which was accompanied by vivi6 lightning display, came down literally 1 in buckets. Though very heavy and accompanied by hail, there was noT any damage to the crops. This was probably due to the fact that there was little Or no wind blowing. Had there been any breeze the damage ming and thunder was more than or dinarily close causing consternatior while it lasted
 Those passengers who were in the depot car when struck in Riverside ! avenue near the Computing Scale Co. had their wits about them. The mo- tors at both ends were on fire, the blue flame Leaping high and striking against the windows, yet the passen- gers kept their seats. The doWnpouY | was at its greatest at that time. The car was going at low rate of speed at the time but the motorrnan had to place on the brakes while he was sur- rounded with flame
 The falling of the wires on the Sau- gatuck bridge, due to being struck and burned off by lightning, held uI trolley traffic for almost three hours not a. car going into Bridgeport. The Wrecking crew were soon on the scene and lighted things.
 1 All the members of the local fire
 companies with the exception of the Vigdlant company, were drenched to the skin. The members of the Com DO, Saugatuck and Pioneer Companies responded to the calls for aid to the Wakeman fire. The Vigilant creW re- mained to protect the center should a l fire break out. They weFap lucky that the doWnpour was so heavy or they yxyn1 Fnx <9011 lad %rN% f h fire on the bridge. There the heavy rain did the quenching act. Druggist E.. O. Simpson has a neat and novel window display in his Main street pharmacy. His diploma obtain ed from the New York School of Phar-
 macy is laid in the center of time worn prescription ledgers, the oldest being 66 years of age, dating back to 1S46
 The ledgers contain most of the old fashioned remedies, the kind that grandmother prescribes to-day. A pla- card Our Speciality offsets the dis play
 Linn's circus arrived in town yes- terday morning about 5 o'clock and
 set itself up in Beers lot at North
 Main and Canal streets. The tractor which draws the circus from town to town and also generates the power for the tent lights and moving pic- lures attracts considerable attention. u0 AESl WdS Il0iO 1dSt evening, all the seats being filled. It
 was a. we'll pleased audience which left the tent after an almost two hour show. The circus is here for two more evenings.
 Mike Baldini, 147 Willard street, one of the laborers with the Connecticut
 Co., at the Saugatuck bridge was pain fully injured yesterday morning when
 one of the heavy rails fell on the back
 of his hand. Dr. J. M. Nolan took
 four stitches in the injured member.
 Baldini with other workmen were lift
 ing heavy rail which was dropped at
 the order of the foreman. Baldini neg
 lected to let go with his fellow work
 men
 The Westport Water Company is
 laying pipes into the Willow Brook
 cemetery in North Main street The
 house of Keeper Charles Baraclough
 is also being connected.
 Dr. Louis B. Wheeler, assistant sur
 geon on the U. s. s. Marietta is home
 on a short furlough visiting his pa
 rents, Mir and Mrs Charles Wheeler
 of Avery place.
 Douglas Fnrfy Of Syracuse is visit