The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-23
MISS HEHEY BADLY BURNED
 BY GASOLINE EXPl lOSION
Was Cleaning Gloves With a Lighted Lantern Close By When Fumes
 Caught Fire.
STAMFORD
(speciaI to The F.,,ner, :,

Stratford, Nov. 23-Miss Julia Heney ! was painfully burned. last night, by an explosion of gasoline with which she was cleaning a pair of gloves, The accident took place at the home of E. c. Burrftt of South Elm street Miss Heney was using the inf1ammab1e liquid in a shed adjoining the kitchen, a lantern furnishing light for the op- eration The fumes of the gasoline l took fire from the lantern and in a second Miss Heney was enveIoped in flames. She ran out into the yard. An unknown Italian who was passing, his coat about the girl, snothering the flames. .'Cappy'' Weeks hurried to town in his motor car and brought Dr. H. M. C1app. who treated the girl. later. She is seriously burned about the chest. face and arms. Although
 neceasariiy dangerous. % The The pr prompt not action of the Italian undoubtedly saved Miss Heney from very serious if not fatal injuries. He slipped away in the excitement and so far all at tempts to locate him have failed. first of Prof. shaw's series of dances at the Auditorium. An orchestra of six pieces furnished the best music ever heard at a dance here. The hall the dancers of the town have ever enjoyed that it is sure to be appre-
 eiated. As a whole the dance was
 larger attendance is promised at the next session.
 Tree Warden George webb is s,1f- fering from a sprained wrist which is the result of backffre while crankinE a motor.
 ..smiIer'' wark was one of "a num-
 Der of Stratford young men who were
 treated to a game supper by Frank
 Fox, who entertained his friends at
 his home in Sixth street. Bridgeport.
 1aE 1fcrf7f f &I7csv E,r <1
 been discussed. the company were en-
 tertained by the host with original
 poems.
 e.Elm Tree'' Sam wakeley is trim
 ming up the big elm near the Method i
 ise church in Main street, under the
 direction of the tree warden in an
 Of the locality The tree has the
 largest spread of branches of any in
 the town and the pruning is made to
 source of the trunk
 The Taxpayers Improvement Club
 have decided to accept the offer of
 the town to install the hook and lad
 der truck which is now lying idle un-
 der the town sheds, at the club house in Nichols avenue. The apparatus
 will be put in thorough repair and
 fitted with all the needed accessories
 When finished the truck will be a creditable piece of apparatus for the The executive board of the Stratford Charitable Society met yesterday and after taking out the expenses, S175 !
 was found remaining as the result of 1
 the recent supper given by the ladies | of tie society. There is now $225 in ] the sfeasury for work this winter, but ] Inuce more will be needed if the drain | thisI Iseason is as large the last.
 Sflce a soul narrowing tale concern 1 ing red lights appeared under big | head in Bridgeport society paper many lurid Examinations which had | heretofore escaped attention have jumped into prominence. The inno cent and unsopiadSt ticated residents Of the town have never attached any inn portance to such lights as have been of g tint other than natural color Of the ta11ow candle or the faint g1imner of under-power incandescents and wa 1 ter gas burners. But now the town is aroused. The Associated Sherlock amateur sleuths in. the town is term ed. are following up these lights and hope to find something on which to base another newspaper story. It is now proposed to introduce a bia in the next House forbidding the use of red lights anywhere in the confines of the disobeying the law will be punished by having the number of his car post ed on the town post and read from the pulpits of the churches whose pas tors are interested in purifying the of the town. The reformers generally believe that the use of red trolley cars is a heinous offence. In fact, anything red or read is dis ia stefIl1 to them. They are deter mined that nothing shall happen be- r hind the radiant simmer unknown to them Even the display of red warn ing lights on open excavations should be replaced by those of more in nocent coloring. Ashes of roses mauve, elephants breath gray have all been suggested as Substitutes. The inner coterie of the associated sleuths which is, supposed to be furnishing the has been named the ''Pur- ifyine Peppers or the Perfect Pact of Peeping Toms.'' Gee, what a stir that story made Every knot of men speak of it's revelations with baited breath What a revelation was there ye countrymen. Sermons are expect | ed on it from every pulpit tomorrow He who reveals what happens behind those red lights will be a public bene- l factor. When it is discovered. why { then the number of the autonObileI 1 will be furnished the newspa pers ] .Ain't it awful, Mabel
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