The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-14
FROZEN WATER
 MAINS ADD TO
 STAMFORD WOE
Ground Frozen 40 Inches Deep, Breaking All Frost Records Mains in Sutton, Warwick and Boston Avenues Filled With Ice
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tines day and the coldest one ever known in this town if the general run of the older residents is any author ity. The river is frozen over, the gas lamps are frozen up and the general inconvenience and torture of the se- were cold was not enough to fill the cup of the long suffering residents with woe and now the water mains are frozen. The water mains on Slut ton, Warwick and Boston avenues are frozen solid and ovver 100 families in these districts are without water. The residents have formed bucket brigades and the few wells still left in the town are working over time. Those who are near enough to a place where the water is .stiH running are calling upon their neighbors. Citizens who long years ago abandoned the old oak en bucket are now seen patiently lay ing in the days supply. Work was commenced in digging up the mains yesterday and the frost in the ground was found to vary from 2S to 40 inch es. The whole town is praying for a good thaw but if the prayers are an swered no relief can be expected for a long time for the mains will be the last things to thaw out after warmer weather sets in. Residents of other sections of the town are fearful that the freezing of the mains will extend and that there will be a water famine in the town. AS the weather bureau has promised warmer weather from this on 1t is believed that these fears are groundless. The sun has swung over so high that the intense cold can not last much longer.
 Capt. Theme Judson. keeper or the Stratford light is authority for the statement that the Sound was entire ly frozen across yesterday morning and also the morning before and that It would have been possible for man to cross the sound to Port Jefferson on the ice What few vessels which have passed up or down the sound in the last week have done so by breaking a channel through the ice which clos ed up immediately after the vessels had passed and presented an unbrok- en field of ice from one shore to the other. The middle of the Sound is filled with big cakes of ice which are troken apart. The ice varies from eight to two feet in thickness. A few warm days will remove the greater part of this mass as a salt water ice soon disintegrates in a thaw.
 There was an incipient riot at the gravel pit last Saturday night. when the paymaster of the big iron firm at Lebanon, Pa, failed to show and who are at work breaking up scrap iron in the grave yard of the Con- solidated road. The gang has been here several weeks. The foreman is Christian Prick and with his men he occupies shanty built by the com. pany in the pit. While Prick has charge of the work here he has noth- ing to do with the payroll which is sent from the headquarters of the firm by the regular paymaster who visits the gangs which are working for the company in different places in the country. The gang has been having a cold time of 1t in the pit and the men have suffered much discom- fort on account of the weather. When the weeks wages was not forthcom- ing on Saturday the discontent was on the foreman. Four of the men threatened to do Prick bodily harm and after making an attempt to as. sault him. Prick left the shanty and came to town where he stayed until this morning when the paymaster ar- rived and settled with the men. The gang was working as usual today.
 Charlie Judson, five years old son of MT. and Mrs. Bernard Judson met with a severe accident while coastine last Thursday. He fell from his Sled and splintered the bones of his left arm so badly that it was nec- essary to encase the injured member in plaster. While the physician was engaged in this painful task the lit tie fellow never cried and the only complaint he made was that the doc tor was making slow job" of it. After the job was over the brave Iit> tie fellow congratulated himself say ing he was better off than ''Cy' More house because he could get around and 'Cy'' couldn't.
 William Rogers will start for Monti- cello, Fla. where the former will re- main until next May. Mir Rogers will make a shorter stay. MT. Blamey will work at carpentering while there and If he likes the country he will make it his custom to pass his win ters there.
 Scarlet fever has attacked the chil, dren in the DooEttle family of King street extension.
 The members of Evening Star Re- bekah lodge and their friends enjoyed an evening of whist at Odd Fellows hall last night. The room was pret- tily decorated with hearts and other designs appropriate for St. Valentines day A number of handsome prizes were awarded.
 The ladies of the Neighborhood church will hold a Valentine supper Tn the lecture room of the church Fri day evening beginning at o'clock
 The program of the 10th anniversary celebratio of Oronoque lodge of Odd Fellows, which takes place Feb. 2eth has not yet been completed, but it will be of interest to everyone in the town Ivan Morehouse. chairman of the committee of arrangements promises that the affair will of unusual merit
 The resources of the post office are taxed with the annual valentino bus mess ana a large portion or these ten der CD missives are directed to the lady clerks in the office. The exhibi- tion is already very large and is in crea sing rapidly.
 The awakening of interest in the Neighborhood church was demonstrat- t. ed last night at a prayer meeting held at the home of Edward Garry on South Elm street. The evening was devoted to "reminiscences of the past and was of great interest. Rev. B. c. Knowles is adopting this method of arouSing the dormant religious