The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-14
RIVERSIDE AVENUE GUESSING CONTEST
 NOW OPEN TO ALL
Chance For the Good Thinkers to
 Step Up and Offer Their Guess z No reason Why Repairing of Main
 Thoroushfare is Being Held Up.
WESTPORT

Wegtport. Aug. 4.-Loca1 residents have entered 6 guessing contest this m-eek There are no prizes at stake but theAperson who can guess the next treason .to be sent out from the office Aof the state highway commissioner flor the delay in repairing Riverside, avenue will be crowned the king guess @r, and will also be allowed the first chance in the contest to follow on the same matter About two weeks ago rfie earacte was given out that Com missioner Mcdonald was dissatisfied with the quality of the trap rock sent here for ethe road by a New York con nractiuE concern, and that he had changedf to Connecticut contractor. Advices were given out then that the -ock was on it's way here and would be immediately laid. But that was only a stall like other reasons given out beforehand.
 There, Is absolutely no reason for the holding up of the road repair If memory serves rightly the work was started the fore part of May. The bluff was made then that the work would be- rushed to completion. To carry out ssthe sand in the eye'' game Barge numbers of laborers were rush., ed to the scene and for several weeks rhe work Of the pick and shovel and Eteam roller brigade made matters hum- Then there was a. let up and all the men were taken off the work. Perhaps there were political fences to he erected elsewhere, but they have :. been constructed at the expense of eiWestport citizens. Oh, yes, hopes for -gnan built the new bridge over the little brook. But that small gather .sne departed like the first. Another life came when another gang tore up the iplaukfng at the creek bridge and underway for a concrete structure. A s% %f. 6an2Tfa6 V- ing the bridge unfinished and an un- slightly roadbed-
 James H. Mcdonald, as head of the state highway department. has charge of this work and only through his or ders can this work proceed. River eide avenue is but specimen of his ahandfwDrk and dilatory tactics If reports coming in from various state sources are true then the department needs a. thorough shaking up. Where state work has been completed it has been found satisfactorily. This through the fact that the commissioner has number of competent men on his Gta6 of workers. If Westporters will recall the last session of the state legislature they will remember that MT Mcdonald and saved him from decapitation. Governor Boldwin saw cause to appoint another engineer to the office but those of the same polit- sca1 faith as the commissioner req eoned to carry out another two year program of inefficiency by refusing to ] confirm the appointment though the r nppointee was of the same political faith as themselves MacDonald's administration has been efficient from Ehe standpoint of those who by their 7 votes made him holdover He is carrying out their wishes and plans really effectiveiy. His Riverside ave- fAue contract Is not such that it will -s ause many to rush to his support There is a Biblical passage which feads. By their fruits ye shall know them"
 7, Aaron Lockwood, IT. is now inn < proving from his recent illness. aI. The Misses Mary ond Dorothy Lehn Rave as their guest their cousin from New York.
 Miss Rebecca London nhas returned sron her vacation which was spent .with friends at Far Rockaway Beach. ,sv J. P. T1chenor of Brooklyn is in town visiting friends. He is stopping with Charles Van Schaick of North Main street
 50 Judge Joseph H. Hyatt wassdn New York yesterday on business. at n Rev. Charles Taylor, who read his s resignation at the services at the Con- Rregational church Sunday, announces that he will depart for hisenew charge the Second Congregational church in Greenwich following the first Sunday in September.
 af5ce will be closed Sundays for the delivery of mails. Tn the past the of Ace has been open on the Sabbath From 5:30 pm to 6.30 p.m., but now by 6. new government order the office will be closed all day. Mail will be fnaafEha and will be sent away by