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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
THE PARTY OF NO CONTESTS

There was a Republican primary in this city, last night, With NOT CONTEST ill any district the re- narkable vote of 405 poled says contemporary in it's report of the Everybody congratulated every body because the machine working smoothly Chef Engineer John King was certain he could drive the STEAM ROLLER any number of Bull Moose when the day of election arrived
 Thus the report. It was peaceful happy, and har- monous time
 But the peace the peace of death, The happiness was the chilly joy of the charne1 house. The harmony was the frigd harmony of the grave.
 Blind of the political world, looking with unseeing eyes the phenomena of politics which they no longer participate these phantoms of party perished of grevous maladies and helpless in the rgor morts of in juries that it could not survive.
 There were no contests because those who made tests-the physicians of the Republican partytred of struggling against the mortal disease of sickenng pa tient longer the sick room, but abroad minis terng to the healthy in the practice of preventive med cine.
 The lobby, corruption and the deadly wounds of privilege into the body of that party n Connecticut have destroyed it.
 The Republican party is longer object of regard to those who desired it's healing and they out of it.
 There remain not in it body of politically conscious able to make contest It is given utterly to the solemn peace of the tomb.
 The steam roller, and he who will roll it, are alike misty symbols of past that gone There is day and the of it shines in Bridgeport mets the phantoms of corruption and social ignorance dsspates steam rollers into vapor of nothngnesss and dsperses the evil dark ness that lowered the state of Thomas Hooker
 The Bull Moose, in whom all that was health of Re- pubcanism is and revivifed and purified Democracy will make this government what founders intended it to be.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
POINTS OF INTEREST.
Upholstering.

If you contemplate having any up-
 holstering done this fall have it done
 at N Buckingham & Company's, TIT
 State street. They are now ready with their fall line of imported and
 domestic tapestries, damask velours
 and other fabrics at modest prices.
 They make their own hair mattresses, using sterilized hair, and make over old mattresses and do all kinds of up-
 holstering, repairing and refinishing
 They want you to give them 8, trial
 so they can convince you what they say about themselves is true. Read their adv
 Sunday and Labor Day Excursions.
 There will be only two more special matinee excursions given on the steamer Park City to Port Jefferson,
 New York. this season, due to the fall time table going into effect on Tues day, Sept 3. The two matinee ex- cursions referred to will be given to- morrow Sunday and Labor Day, when the steamer will leave the wharf at the foot of Fairfield avenne at 1:30, returning leave Port Jefferson at 4:3G, arriving in Bridgeport at p. n1., thus allowing three hours sail on the Sound and one hour and thirty minutes at
 Port Jefferson. This is an ideal half days outing trip and should be enjoy l ed by those who desire short water trip Special low fare on these ex- cursions. Children under 12 years of age half fare
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31

their services, because the house he is erecting in the neighborhood is to be entirely concrete and in it he is to embody all the ideas against fire loss that he has evolved during years of study From cellar to garret raftere floors and walls are to be of concrete. Carpets and furniture covers are to be of asbestos, while the furniture, trimming and doors will be of metal.
 WITH MEN OF AFFAIRS
 The other officers of the company elected with MT. Crotxer were Henry F. Cochrane, Brooklyn lawyer, vice president; John c. Gerhard, a Man haitian importer, recording secretary; A. T. Smith, a Manhattan automobile manufacturer. financial secretary, and W. B. Wilson, Manhattan lace inn porter. treasurer As it was under stood that MT. Croker would not be at home at all times. Charles W. Hewlett. the chief Of the Long Beach police, was elected acting fire chief in case of the chiefs absence. 7 As honorarvS assistant, George J. Ryan, a real estate broker of Long Island City, was elected. and the active as sistant is H. E. Snow, the Village plumber
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31

and prejudice that has it's source in the time when men separated from each other by some territorial boun- dary were taught that any upon the other side of the imaginary line were to be hated and despised, Our con- temporary carries the rancor of the centuries that have gone, and its hatred of Democracy and of those who are Democrats is as conspicuous as its affection for wealth, and power, as notorious as it's desire to prosper by seeming all things to all men.
 By measuring the changing policy of it's own editorial columns from day today The Bridgeport Evening Post will be able to measure the quantity of it's influence in this community.
 That which it has opposed is invari- ably done. The reform that has tt for an enemy is already two-thirds accomplished. eff the Post is against it. the thing must be right is the attitude of the average man.
 Says the Post, of the Democratic party: Experience has shown these clean men are powerless to prevent the control of the baser clement
 We know of no baser element in Bridgeport politics than the Bridge port Evening Post
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
"GUARDS" MAKE MERRY
 AT SOUND VIEW HOTEL
wilbert Sanford Calls on Many, 1n- cIuding Mayor Wilson, For After
 Dinner Speeches.

The Guards" an organization com posed of members of $. H. Harris lodge, l. o. O. F., held their annual dinner last evening at the Sound View hotel, Walnut Beach. The dinner was a huge success, both from a social and gastrpnomic viewpoint.
 The proprietors of the hotel outdid themselves both as to the quality and quantity of the food.
 Everything that goes to make a shore dinner, from chowder to cof- fee appeared in great abundance until the guests were compelled to renege owing to lack af capacity. The pro- prietors were called to the dining room and given a rising vote of thanks for their efforts to please.
 Wilbert Sanford, F. G., president of the organization presided at the head of the table and called on several of tho SC present for remarks, among them being Mayor c. B. Wilson, W. R. Jack, George Chamberlain, D. Caulkins. William Faubel, Robert Fitzroy and others. The party broke up at late hour with thre cheers for | the Sound View and it's genial pro- prietorS.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
HIGH COST OF SHOES. fNeW Britain Herald.l

Blame for the high cost of shoes lies neither with the tariff, with the automobiles that use up the leather, with the lessened supply of hides, nor with the increased cost of the nak- ing. It rests mostly on the shoul- ders of the college youth.
 This is the inevitable deduction from the statement of the New York State Retail Shoe Dealers association, who say that the freak styles cause d large hold over stock. every season. thus materially increasing the price
 It is urged that the styles be stan dardized and thus shoe will be a shoe for a that the season has wan ed. Just now distinctive styl6s Of footwear are demanded, mostly by the pallid faced collegiate sport, who de- mands something very ultra to go with his bright hued socks at the fall football games and something very different and startling for the spring baseball series.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
IDA M, FARRELL DEFINES
 AN "OLD MAIDISH HOME

Ida M. Tarbell writing an article in the September American Magazine, says:
 .One of the most repellent houses in which I have ever visited was one in which there was, from garret 70 cellar. so far as discovered, not one article which was not of, the period initiated, not one streak of colon which was not right It was a mas terpiece of correct furnishing, but it was curiously limiting and stidzng. Youu could not escape the scheme, The inelastic1ty Of it f1arnpered so- ciability-and there grew on one, too, sense of unf1tness. His clothes were an anachronisn! They were the only thing which did not belong!
 There is an old-fashioned adjective which describes better than any other this preoccupation with things, which so often prevents a wonan's coming her Business, It is old n1aidish. It has often been the pathetic fate of single women to live alone. To min ister to themselves becomes their oc- cupation. The force of their natures turns to their belongings. If in their souls to spotleSS floors, if rich to fiawless mahogany and china, to per feet household machinery. Where ever you find in woman this perver- sion-old 1naidish is perhaps the most accurate word for her-it is a sacrifice of the human to the material. A house without sweet human litter, without the trace of many varying tastes and occupations, without the trial of friends who have no sense of beauty, but who love to ! give, without the scars of use and the dust of running feet-what is it but a meatless shall l!
 This devotion to things may cas- fly become a ghoqllish passion"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
SUNDAY MAIL FOR HOTELS
P O. Instructed to Deliver to News
 dealers and Others.

Washington, Aug. 31EThe enforce ment of the new Sunday closing law with respect to the window delivery of mail to the general public will not interefere with the delivery Of mail to hotel guests, newspaper offices, news dealers, and others who have been in the habit of receiving their mail on Sundays for many years past. This fact was made clear today in a circular letter of instructions which Postmaster General Hitchcock issued to the several thousand PoStnasters in charge of the first and second class offices, to which the Sunday closing provision of the new Post Office Ap- propriation act is applicable.
 These instructions were necessary because of the misunderstanding and doubt existing throughout the country as to the effect of the Sunday closing provision and the liberality with which it would be construed by the head of the department. Not only has the department been deluged with requests from hotel men, travelling salesmen, business houses, and newspaper pro- prietors, who have appealed direct to Washington, for the facts, but also with requests from first and second class Postmasters, who have been all most as much in doubt as their pa irons over the attitude of the de- partment These requests were so un- animous and insistent that Postmaster General Hitchcock found it absolutely necessary to issue a letter of instruc- tions that goes into considerable de- tails regarding what first and second class postmasters are to- do. &c.
 Photographic instructions were like wise sent to the principal Postmasters, directing them to take care Of newspa- per- news dealers, and hotel mail as in the past, and to see that it was de- livered.
 For many years it has been the prac- tice of the Washington Post office to give expeditions deliveries of special mail matter of all kinds to newspaper offices and correspondents Probably there is no city in the country where newspaper men receive their mail so promptly and painstakingly as in Washington, but the delivery of Sum day mail by letter carriers to them and hotels will be discontinued after next Sunday, and they can now only obtain their mail by applying for it at the Post Office
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
TROLLEYMEN'S WAGE CASE

The decision of the arbitrators in the New Haven Trolleymen's appeal for higher wages, denying the appeal for more wages, upon the ground that there should be uniformity of wages in all divisions of the Connecticut Company, will, in the long run work to the advantage of the trolleyinen.
 1t was not in the interest of unity and concert of action among the troll leymen that one important division should stand as better paid than.other divisions
 Such condition could not but tend to- make the New Haven division lukewarm toward the wage increases desired by other divisions
 Trolley1nen are entirely, correct in their assertion that they are not paid in accordance with the prefftssof the employer. ttaeS ineFeased diffieNlfy. of supporting at home. Of the value of the services they perform.
 But the differences should be ad- jueted between the company and all the men on common scale, and not between the company and fragments Of its nen-
 The latter method of settling wage disputes must result in the long run in losses to the men, and in the loss Of the advantages gained by organiza- tion.
 If New Haven were left to bargain independently, other divisions would soon do the same. and the employer would be able to pay one division against the other to its own advan- tage.
 The decision of the arbitrators seems to settle the matter. Here after the trollevmen of the Connecti- cut Company will do their collective bargaining as a single organization aud the benefits will flow equally to every member of the organization.
 This method will be equally bene- 'icial to the company, which would not in any real sense, profit in the presence of feeling among groups of its em ployes that wage scales were unjust.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
, THE EASIEST ELEMENT


 Tie Bridgeport Evening Post is in curably a paper of hatred, malice and envy It worshiups wealth, but wants readers Therefore it favors progress abroad and persecutes. it at home. To reforms once accomplished it ou- poses the stinging malice of narrow in- tellects.
 To beneficial changes actually brought about it brings the brazen lungs of it's boastful disposition. hop- ing to drown with noise the evidence that men read it to find in what fl says ought to be done, the evidence of what it would be wrong to do.
 Whether it be initiative and refer endurn, direct primaries. or tax equali- zation The Post opposes. hates and and delays as much and ss long as il can and finding the hated thing done professes for it an undying affection while it continues to islander these by whom the righteous thing wa1 -.one. and lie about them. not in the straightforward terms of the courage ouS liar. but by slurring interviewt that never were, by attributing to one man things plainly written .by othe1 men. by impudently putting into it: o..;,,y,,,,Ss- fhj11oxs in oiIof tioD mark, things it. knows not to be true, ant thar >is dare nor print without th' marks.
 The Post has no use for the Demo 4rstic party The sources of its hatred Of that party arc of remote antiquity -.~~z aaK from a stream of emotion
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
SUNDAY SERVICES

First Baptist Church. wasnEncts-1 ard Brown, minister. Morning service at 10:30; evening service at 7:3O; Bible School at F; Mems Class led by pas tor. Morning subject, 'SThe Law of Returns; evening subject. Equipped But Not Ready" All welcome.
 Olivet Congregational Church, North avenue and Main street, Rev Morgan Millar, minister. Morning service at 1O:3O, communion; evening service at 73O, lecture "At the Gates of New World and Beyond" This Is a study of our new Americans from thedr land ing to their home making and wage earning in various pants Of the coun- try. illustrated with 75 excellent YiAGaA
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
FIGHTING FOR THE
 LITTLE FELLOW

Recent decisions against relating by railroads and others for the bene- fit of a few large concerns as against thousands of small business men, re- caN the fight waged for some years by the Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co., | of Battle Greek, Mich, against the same unfair conduct in the grocery business, known there better as Free deals" and Quantity prices, than as rebates.
 The Kellogg Company maintains that the little merchant should have the same price as the big one, not withstanding that the latter is con stantly driving for special concessions by virtue of large trade and large that in the aggregate the small mer- chants of this country, about 90 per cent. of all the goods distributed, while the large merchants sell about 10 per cent. special concessions irrespective of any other fact, would tend to drive out the little dealers and put the pub lie to much inconvenience. Whether big merchants would, if all their rivals were removed, fix their. prices as high as they could or leave them as low as possible, is a question. No mer- chant can buy Kellogg's any cheaper than any other dealer.
 Free deals" have never been coun- tenanced by Kellogg's. These assume various forms and are always, in ef- feet, a rebate for buying quantities or certain brands of goods Fearing his big rival will take advantage of sthe E'deal'' or a quantity price, the small merchant often takes the bait and becomes overstocked Often the free deap' goods are unknown and of poor quality. At any rate, the mer- chant has too much of them for inn mediate trade, and they get stale on his shelves. Prices may be slashed to make his goods move, but a merchant must have fair profit to live and the loss must be made up on some other line by overcharging, or the sheriff will close him up.
 The Kellogg fight, in the end is for competition in merit of goods and ser vice to the consumer instead of fore ing trade with rebates and thus de- moralizing business. Bitterly fought by big merchants, yet never giving any special concessions to anyone, KeHogg's has nevertheless grown rap idly and the output of Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes now runs 60, OOO,- 900 packages a year. This record ex- ceeds that of any other ready-to-eat cereal in the history of this coun- try
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
HE PAYS THE FREIGHT
(New York Telegram

(NeW OFk 1eleSram.
 We love peace, but not at absolute Iy any price, and the settlement of the walters strike in Boston is calculat- ed to raise the gorge of even the mild est hammered diner.
 The basis of agreement was com promise, the concession being made that the @'tipless" job of waiting on hotel officials be distributed around among the walters and not given to the same walters all the time While waiting at the hotel officials table the waiter loses tips he might get if serving customers.
 Nice, eh? It's piracy, pure and simple The hotel manager says I'm not going to pay you any more, but I'll give you a chance to sandbag the diner
 He issues to the waiter letters of imarque to prey on the man who would eat.
 Been much talk of abolishing tip- ping by enactment and otherwise, but it looks as if the habit had come to stay
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
WEEDS WIZARDS WIDOW
Lewis Flanders Marries Mrs Wood
 bridge at Portland

Boston, Aug. 31-Mrs. Hazel Pratt Woodbridge the young widow of Wal liam Butler Woodbridge, of Brookl1ne, who was killed in an automobile ac- ciden+ seven years ago, was married to Lewis Flanders of 59 Longwood eyenne Brookline, on Aug. 6 at Port land, Me.
 Both families are prominent socially. The news of the wedding was great surprise to the friends of the couple. The romance became known when a ratl1rn was made to the Town Clerk of Brookline. Flanders gave his age os o1 and the bride said she was 36.
 Mrs woodbridge F'landers's former husband was known as "The Wizard of Insurance.'' His widow began a shit against the executors of his es- tate last year to ascertain why her nroperty that was thought to amount fo s5OO. 900 had dwindled to something like s1O,00O. It is understood that the suit is still pending.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
CROKER AGAIN FIRE CHIEF Made Head of Long Beach Fire De
 partment

Edward F. Croker, former chief of the New York. Fire Department, is now generalissimo of the nattiest fire force any man could expect within reason to command At a meeting held yesterday afternoon at the Nas- sau Hotel, at Long Beach. he was elected president of the Long Beach Fire Department and was voted a free hand in organization and equipment. Mir. Croker. in accepting the responsi- bility. stated that he purposed in the near future to call his men out for duty regularly every night and that drills would continue until the snow flew. He was assured he would be given the best of support
 The members of his force. will be volunteers consisting of the rich men who have recently taken up their homes in Long Beach. MT. Croker said personally he would not need
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
FOUGHT HUNGRY WOLVES.
Arrival Of Train Saves the Station
 Agent.

Birmin gha1n, Ala, Aug. 31.-The arrival of freight train at Prospect. Ala, yesterday probably saved the Northern Alabama Railroad station agent there from being torn to pieces by wolves.
 A pack of the wolves surrounded the little station early in the night and drove the agent inside where he barricaded windows and doors. He shot two or the animals when they tried to jump through the window. The arrival Of the train. scared the mack AEaY, Se ~
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
JENNINGS BARN IN
 GREENS FARMS BURNED

4 barn on the property of Oliver H. Jennings in Greens Farms was total ly destroyed by fire at a late hour last evening. The joss is estimated at about $4,000. The fire was discov- cred by neighbors and apparently had been burning some time. The South port firemen responded and by their work prevented the flames from spreading to other buildings The barn ewas well filled with new hay and a large stock of farm implements. There was no live stock on the prop erty The origin of the fire is un- known
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
LENDS MEN SWEAR TO KILL.

Rio De Janiero, Aug. 31.-Support- CTS of Antonio Lemos for provincial governor, swore, today, to kill every one concerned in lynching one of their number. charged with attempt ing to assassinate Lauro Sodre, a riv- al candidate. say messages from Para Bloody fighting is feared The troops already on their way to Para have been reinforced.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
FIRST THINGS

The thirty-first day of August first appeared in the calendar during the reign of Augustus. In the ancient Roman calendar August had only tWenty-nine days. When Julius Caeser revised the calendar he gave the month of Sextilis, as it was then called thirty days. When Augustus became ruler of the empire, he was
 consumed with jealousy because a been named after his predecessor. so he changed Sextilis to
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31

August, and gave it thirty days so that the month would be as long as July. The thirty first day of Aug ust was stolen from poor old Febru- ary, which had always played the role of the goat'' when any calendar tink- ering was to be done Augustus was made consul in August, and in that month had also thrice triumphe at Rome, had added Egypt to his empire, and had brought the civil wars to an end. Naturally he looked upon the month as 8 period of good fortune.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31
REVIEWS
 FROM Our Exchanges
STATIONS
 FOR AUTOMOBILIS1S

FOR -AUTOMOBILIS1'S
 (Hartford Tines.)
 Automobilists who while OH the road desire to communicate by tele- phone for assistance, or business, or pleasure, usually wait. if they gan until they reach a place where there is a public telephone, or in case of necessity find house where sthere is a telephone and obtain its use by courtesy. According to recent in- formation from England automobii- ists there have already partly estab- 1ished a system for the service of all who belong to either of the two gresr autom obile societies. They are haV- ing. erected along most of the great roads telephone stations like those we see along trolley lines. Each ;s to have an attendant and the service will be free to members. If mes sages have to be sent on trunk lines the charge for that will be collected. Provision is also made for calling those who are travelling the road, and it looks as if the travellers are likely to suffer as much from what we call when we do not need 1.-the tele- phone nuisances as if they were at home.