The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-23
WESTPORTERS PROTEST
 NEW TROLLEY RULING
No Regular System Now And Not Enough White Pole They Say Commissioner Macdonald Here TOday-New Books at the
 Library.
WESTPORT

Westport, July 23.--Supt. Chapman's 1 of the Connecticut Go, mail these
 days should contain many sizzling let 1 teEs from Westport residents who are indignant over the recent ruling of l nls company, ordering their motormen 1 10 stop only at white poles to take on or let off passengers Westporters
 have a right to feel put out, for the
 new ruling has inconvenienced many or them to great extent, especially
 those on the outskirts of the town where the distance between white poles is more than ten or twelve inchs
 es The ruling went into effect last
 saturday and many were they who were compelled to wait for the next car. while the first car shot by them, These were they who had not been 1 informed of the new rule and waited
 for the cars at any convenient point l along the line.
 A great deal of the objection would
 be overlooked if the white poles were plaeed in regulation distance from each other. There does not seem to
 be any system to lay out, the poles being marked at random It would
 seem that the company would place poles at cross roads, but in many in- stances such connections are over- l looked
 The company should consider that Ia majority of the people who use their lines live on the cross roads: 1 surely they ought to be considered as
 much as the residents along the line Perhaps the Conn Co can be made to see the light. Then probably they l will add several more white poles along the. route and also bring about a different arrangement than now ex- lists. An incident of the new rues oc-
 cured Saturday evening. A woman returning from Bridgeport signaled I the conductor to stop. As she was known by the conductor who has ire quently let her off in front of her own home-there was not a white pole there--he informed her of the new ruling. The woman became excited and advanced to the running board l expecting the car to stop, as usual.
 Ine car sped by Whereat the woman attempted to aHght. It was with diff l ficulty that the conductor restrained l her from carrying out her object. When the car did come to stop. the excited woman told the conductor and
 motorman just what she thought of them. They'll get it often before the people become educated to the rule. l State Highway Commissioners Mac- donald with other members of his | department and officials of the Con- seiectmen today in regards to the pro- posed Marvin switch in State street. Many residents of the town are of the opinion that the switch will go through despite their protests. The following new books are but a
 few of many which have been re- l gently added to the local library: 1 The Street Called Straight; Through l the Postern Gate, Barclay; Surplus
 Plot Burmingham; Polly of the Hos Sidney, Jordan: The Just and the Un- 1 just, Hester; The Postma ster, Linz co1n; Chronicles of Avonlea, Mont
 gomery; The Lighted Way. oppen-
 helm; Molly Mcdonald, Parrish: and l Chain of Evidence, Wells.
 1 The state highway department is
 repairing the bridge in Riverside ave- nue over the creek. The heavy road blanks have been removed, while sev-
 eral of the cross beams will be re- l placed.
 1 The railroad bridge over the Saug- l atuck is being painted yellow Mrs. Klein of Riverside avenue is entertaining out of town friends, who ! arrived yesterday
 The public library will be open on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, starting tonight in the future The use of the library will be given over l to readers only, no books being circu. l lated
 B. N. sipperIy left yesterday for l Hinsdale, N. H., where he expects to be gone about a week. He will conn pine pleasure with business.
 Miss Mildred Taylor has returned
 
 weeks in Milford.
 Jack Duffy has returned to his du- ties at the Krazy Kat lunch room, af. ter a weeks vacation.
 Miss Frances Bates of Wilton N H., is the guest of Miss Marjorie Pur- dy Miss Bates is school-mate of Miss Purdy at Cushing academy.
 Rev. Lear Holmes preached yester-
 day at the Congregational church. The old clock in Trinity church seems to be target for stray light ming bolts. Last Tuesday the old time piece was again struck by light ming, the third time, but no real dam l age was completed. The old clock I did not miss a fraction, but kept on
 tolling off the hours. The heavy beam on which the works rest was splin- | tered considerably
 At the town fair. Louis Bulkley se- cured the chaffing dish; Mrs Fred Salmon, the blue parasol; Miss Cath I crime Burr. the oil painting; and Per-
 cy St. John, the rocking chair
 Attorney John J. Walsh of Norwa1k | DO Beach bath house suits, have taken
 an appeal from the Common Pleas ! court decision by Judge Scott to the l Supreme Court of Errors
 Carlton Hubbell of Newtown and | James A. Long of Brooklyn are the l guests of MT. and Mrs. ". B. Hub- bell of Canal street
 1 leased the Galloway place in King street for the remainder of the sea- son.
 I The Hyde homestead and outIaying | land of 20 acres, which has been in | the Hyde family since 1795, when the 1 home was erected has been sold by l the Misses Hyde to Benedict H. Grun-