The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-08
BEDDING WOODLAND
 SWEPT BY FIRE
Nearly 300 Acres Burned Des- pite Vigorous Fight of
 Three Score Men
Reported Sale of Mark Twain's Estate Proves to Be
 UnfOunded

$edding, May s-The west side had
 aa extensive swamp and woodland
 fire Saturday afternoon, the largest as
 regards the territory burned over, that
 the town has known for years There
 were really two fires which epread
 until they met. The first started be-
 tween one and two o'clock on land owned by Mrs. William Banks and ie
 supposed to have been caused by
 sparks from a locomotive. Tho sec end broke out about half an hour later at point to the eastward Fire War den Warner was promptly notified and called out George Dudley and Howard Platt, his deputies and about all the other help that was available. In all a force of between 60 and 70 men engaged in fighting the flames and did not consider it safe to quit the job until nearly midnight. Altogether tract of about 300 acres was burned over, lying mostly in the Umpawaug section of the town- No buildings were involved, although several were seriously threatened and saved only by hard work Probably the largest individual property loss was that sus- tained by George Dudley who loses about $z50 from the destruction of railroad ties and telephone poles which he had just got out The fire swept through and badly singed a forty acre tract of young woods own ed by Charles H. Plump For this damage he will look to the Railroad Go for compensation The fire ex- tended as far south as the property Of Albert Bigelow Paine, running over some of his land. but doing no parti- cular damage.
 The latest reported sale Of the Mark Twain property proves to have been a false alarm. word having been re- ce4ved this week by MT Paine from MT. Freeman. one Of the trustees Of the Twain estate. that the aegotfa- lions had fallen through. No parti- culars were given, the message being limited to the bare announcement that the deal was off
 Miss Esther Waterman of Southport accompanied by her friend, Miss Fox Is sDJourning at the, formers summer home in Pleasant Valley Mics Wa ternan is arranging for the repair of the barn on the place, the west wall of which recently collapsed. The late Turney Sanford, a mechanical genius who had many inventions to his cred it. built the barn more than 40 years ago It's walls were of solid concrete with an admtxture of small field l stones like raisins in a pie MT. San ford was therefore pioneer in con crete construction and his unique barn | gained no little celebrity. The weight | of the structure, however, proved too much for the soil foundation and dur |
 
 the sides dfsintegrated and went down, being replaced with board siding. The colIapes Of the west wall made an end of the original structure
 A sign displayed in the yard of John Aduennfch's pretty residence on the for sale When asked if this indica.t-l ad that he contemplated retirement from his flourishing store business on the Ridge MT Muennich said that it did. it being his intention in case he sold his house to rent or build an other house in the vicinity
 The Sanford School ball team play sd a local nine of their seniors last Saturday, the latter aggregation in -luding Messrs- Schoch. A1drich, Dib- ble and w. C. Sanford of the school'sI teaching staff, Dr. Smith and his son, Herman It was a hard fought contest and the youngsters had the better of he argument by a margin of one run stephen Sanford is in seriously inn paired health from ailment of the kid , leys and the doctors have eIjoined up- 1 sn him absolute quiet. A year ago he received a similar warning, but it was l not easy for him to forego the ex- { ,eedingIy active habits of lifetime s md as soon as his strength permitted 7 le vas working as hard as ever His I Ige Is about so, but until Of late he i las borne the burden of his years iEhtly- { Joseph stehlik died last Friday at ( iis h ne in Pleasant Valley, the for ner -harIes Mellen place which he ,ouf r 9out ten years ago. His age vas soout 70 and he had been in fail ng health for some time. Interment [ vas at Bethel. Y From Mesers Ferry, Reynolds and [ ~oveley, the young men who weht his spring to Edmonton, in Western s "a nada, one of their Bedding friends xrer7 hi 1Ir v-ir a trawberrIes carefully done up in cot 2 on The berries were intended as I roof of the former statement made y the senders that vegetation was urther advanced at Edmonton than 2 l the much more southern latitude of : heir former home. s A small bungalow Is being erected Q pposite Commodore Luttgen's sum ier place on Sunset Hill for Civil En- 2 ineer Craven, a representative of the lew York Contracting company which ' as built. several roadways through he Lut1gens estate and is now engaged pon another H. C. Mcclellan is do- ng the bungalow job D. S. Sanford and H. s. Barnes are ranging to install on the Ridge a 2 asoline storage tank of 500 gallons. . apacity. It will serve their own con z z and also enable them to sup 2 iy others Charles Beardeley is operating his !. team sawmill in a tract of woods 1' Nned by stephen Sanford near the :, Topewell district The number of dog licenses issued @s D to May 1 was about 30 less than . lst years total. indicating a like @ t1n ber of delinquents. - Selectnlan zaImon Read is on the = ok list with kidney trouble " " ' LYFoRD BROS. B #