The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-06
Fairfield County News
Losses by Fire

house on fire. The damage was abot
 $500 and there is insurance.
 Fire destroyed barn and shef owned by Thomas I. Raymond at No' walk Sunday afternoon. Hay, oats lumber and carriage pole, whi-
 were located in the barn, were als destroyed, bringing the loss close 1000. Oil which trickled from bal rel in the barn out into the road WE set fire when someone threw mate
 into the road. The flames crept alon
 the roadway, into the barn. The los on the barn. and shed will net abou SSOO while the remainder of the los. was on the contents.
 Gift of Auto Chemical
 The New Canaan fire department ]. conjunction with representatives of the borough board and board of select men, held a special meeting Wedncs- day evening and met stephen Hoy1 who represented Alfred H. Mulliken large property holder who submitted proposition to present to the fire com pany and the town and borough of
 New Canaan an auto chemical fire apparatus. The car will be especially designed by the Locomobile company of Bridgeport, and the chemical sys-
 tenn will be that known as the Kan awha compressed air method. It is said that the gift involves the expen-
 diture of almost $7,000.
 The car will be designed to carry
 twelve men besides the usual equip ment. which of course. includes hyd-
 rant hose, chemical hose and reel spanners. nozzles. picks. axes. crow bars, ladders, fire extinguishers, lan
 terms, etc, and the rubber clothing of the firemen. The engine will be cylinders. 60 horse power. and geared from 8 to 45 miles an hour. It will be a double chain drive with four speeds, forward driven on high. The
 wheels will be 40 by 5 dual tread
 or the other tire will support the
 weight.
 Granted Divorce
 John H. McGill was granted a di-
 vorce from the Alice Boughton Mc-
 Gill by Judge Ralph Wheeler at Da1,-
 bury Friday The case was uncon-
 tested MT. McGill alleged adultery.
 MT. and Mrs McGill were married in
 Brewster. N. Y.. on June 9. 1905.
 1900 Egg Incubator.
 Poultry fanciers in and about Dan
 bury. are interested in an immense
 incubator. which Charles F. Kenney
 Lakeside farm, Lake Kenosia. The
 incubator holds 1.So0 eggs. It is eigh-
 teen feet long and fifty-four inches
 wide and is made up of 150 compart-
 ments, so arranged that any or all of
 them may be used at one time. The
 incubator heat is furnished by means of piping which carries hot air through
 the compartments MT. Kenney said
 that he would hatch the chicks to sell
 and would not confine the hatching to any one breed.
 Called to Brooklyn Rev. Frank D. Torrey, pastor of the Norwalk Methodist Episcopal church, has received a call to the Summer field Methodist Episcopal church of Brooklyn and has decided to accept. Measles in Bethel The measles have become so preva- lent, particularly on the east side of Bethel and in the outer districts. as to become aQ epidemic. There are a large number of eases nearly. all of them very mild.
 Burned by Oil
 When the lantern which he was car rying about the building fell from his hand and exploded early Sunday l morning, Joseph Cockerhan, of East 1 Norwalk night fireman at the Salts | Textile Manufacturing company plant,
 was very severely burned and is in a 1 critical condition. His body is burn l ed from the shoulder to his ankle on | the left side.
 Stamfords New Industry | Stamford is to have new factory i and a large one. to be built for Max. l i'm & Maxim Company of New York. manufacturers of millinery. The new 1 concern will employ about 200 hands. | nearly all of whom will be women. Hartlett is Repentant Leonard Hartlett, the 16 year old youth who ran away from his home in Clenbrook. two weeks ago and spent l. ryx l1 y. l home Saturday night in a repentant | mood MT Hartlett received note l from him Friday, but no address was given. Tn the note. the truant said l he would come home by himself. IL 1 transpired later that he had already made plans for a journey to Vermont, 1 in company with a friend he had met | on the streets. Mir. Hartlett noticed | that the letter was postmarked from the station at 1nh Street and Fourth avenue Near the corner is the well- l known Bible House. The father en- l tered that building and espied his son l on the elevator in one corner of the building. During his two weeks in the big cty, Leonard resided at Y. M. c. A. on the Bowerv and lived on | the S9 per week which he earned as elevator boy. The general secretary of the Association noticed that on ire quent oca sions the boy sat in a co, ner until late at night, weeping. He always refused. however. to answer questions as to the cause of his grief. MT. Hartlett had firmly intending pla cing his son in the navy-yard to train him in discipline. but when he started there instead of for home, he was touched by the pleadings of his boy and brought him home instead. Leonard has made faithful promises to both father and mother to never leave home again.
 Special Election Called Letters have been received by Town Clerk Kneen of Huntington. from Gov ernor Baldwin to the effect that the special election of Judge of Probate to fill the vacancy cused by the death Of the late Judge D. A. Nichols. WI be held Tuesday, April g.
 Stamford's Grand List The net grand list of Stamford is s36. 739, ,550 The Board of Relief made abatements totalling $313.317. It mad increases totalling $1.865.f The gross grand list was $37051 ,O02. The churcf abatements totalled s59,620. Abate ments allowed soldiers or soldiers widows were sS7 SS2 The other abatc ments were $165,S15. in amount The net grand list is s1 609,2 greater this year than it was last. An application. for relief which aroused some little interest was made by R. I. Walsh of Greenwich. on behalf of the Green wich Water company. which recently purchasd from Stewart Tod 23e acres of land along the Mianus River in Stamford upon which there was on,.