The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
TREES WILL BE ALLOWED TO
 BLOCK CALIFORNIA STREET
Agreement By Which Street Will Be Laid Out 45 Feet Wide and Dodge
 Trees Till They Die.
STAMFORD
lsneeia1 to The Farmer.)

l (Special to The Farmer.)
 l Stratford, Aug. 6.-The continued hearing on the removal of the trees
 from California street was concluded
 at the Town hall last night. The
 hearing which was properly confined
 to the trees developed into a mutual agreement affair bringing in the Wid- l ening of the street and the improve Ynents ordered by the voters in recent town meeting. It was agreed l at the hearing that in consideration 1 of the promise of Rudolph BankWitz l to accept the proposition to make the street 45 feet wide the trees Wnicn now stand seven feet in the roadway l be allowed to remain until he has 1 time to get trees well started outside of the street line. He also agreed to accept the grade fixed for the street which will be two feet lower than the
 present roadway. After the meetlng, however, MT. BankwitZ changed his mind and asserted with much vigor that he would never give the town an inch of his property. All of the prop erty owners on the street were either present or represented and MT. Bank witz was the only one who opposed the plan Of making the street 45 feet wide. Much indignation was express ed on the attitude of 'Bankwitz who is attempting to block the improve ment. It is believed that the town now owns 10 feet of Bankwitz front. having purchased the property for the street widening 26 years ago. All that is now asked by the advocates of the improvement is seven feet and it may develop that the great objector l would have been better off if he had accepted the proposition as first made to him. A search of the records will be made and if the promise of the H- 11 xxyra recorded as a fact Bankwitz will be obliged to give up ten feet of his front and also his much cherished trees There will be no more hear l ings on the matter and the town of | ficials will go ahead and carry out 1 the will of the voters expressed in the town meeting. The trees which have been made the bugbear of this contention will have to come down iE a short time at the longest and the affair is believed to be simply well developed design to get money from l the town for something that it is be- 1 lieved to already own. The patience lof the other residents of the streets l is well nigh exhausted. A special hearing will be called Wednesday evening, Aug at o'clock at which l time the tree warden will give his ] final decision.
 Capt. Bob Culver of the oyster steamer Hattie Lownds, who lives on Judson place, figured fin a sensational
 rescue yesterday afternoon which gives him place on the list of heroic life savers. Capt. Bob was at his post in the pilot house of his vessel which was tied up at the wharf of the Seal shipt company at the foot of Penn
 broke street. Bridgeport. His crew were astounded to hear him call for a line from the water near the steam CT. No one had seen him go over the T@S f%. @I was a. mystery until he was drawn out by the crew when it was discovered that Capt. Bob had the limp form of a girl in his arms. Ready hands ap- piled first aid to the drowning and in short time the girl regained conscious ness and was taken to her home close by. The girl, who is 12 years old, was playing on the dock with some other children. A cry from the water attracted the captains attention and he saw the girl rise to the surface. Capt. Bob plunged from the upper deck and got a good hold of the child when she came up the second time and called for assistance. A delay of a few seconds would have cost the child her life. The parents of the
 girl looked for Captain Bob to ex-
 press their gratitude but the captain
 was missing. He didn't want any
 fuss made over the matter
 Maj. Gen. T. H. Bliss who will be
 the chief umpire in the war maneuv-
 CTS, with his staff, is expected at Camp Lee at Paradise Green in few
 days When he arrives he will take command and Camp Lee will be the
 headquarters of the umpires who will
 make the camp the centre of their
 operations. Yesterday the advance
 guard of the cavalry from Fort Mey.
 CT, Va, arrived with a herd of horses
 Tn command of a sergeant the sol
 diers reached the town at 10:3O last
 night. On the way from Bridgeport
 a horse got away and had not been
 recapturel at midnight. It was an-
 nounced yesterday that only 500 sol
 diers would be encamped at the
 Green, but this will be enough to fur
 the war game.
 Mrs. D. c. Wood was brought to
 her home here yesterday after two
 weeks treatment at the Bridgeport
 hospital. Her friends are pleased to
 see the great improvement in her
 condition.
 Mrs. Rosella Lowell left yesterday
 for Greeley, Col, where she will make
 an extended visit with her daughter,
 Mrs. William Walsh.
 The handsome residence in process
 of construction on Patterson avenue
 for c. F. Axtell is nearly completed
 The contractors are Benjamin King
 & Son, maSons, and Fredericks X
 Quimby of Morristown, N. J.. carpen- ters.
 S. S. Beardsley, carpenter, and C.
 W. Blakeslee, mason, have been awarded contracts for two new houses
 on Broadbridge Road.
 The Dingbat club enjoyed lawn
 party last night at which refresh
 nents were served. Plans for the an- nual clam bake next Sunday were
 discussed. George Webb agreed to
 bring in the clans on stone boat and Peanuts Park was chosen collec-
 tor. Other officials of the bake were
 Shorty Lines, steward; c. A. Plumb,
 chef; Irving Webb, chaplain.
 At the town meeting tonight the
 matter of more school facilities will
 be threshed out and an interesting session is expected. A large number
 of women have signified their inten-
 tion to be present and take part as
 far as their limitations will allow. It
 remains to be seen whether the voters
 of the town will respect their pres
 ence enough to refrain from smoking while they are present.