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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
CHIEF MONEYS PAY

1T another city pays some public servant
that is important In considering the application of Fire
Chief Edward Mooney for salary increase though the
custom of other cities may be helpful reaching
clusion.
The important thing in this is that he is worth
the money. Mooney is good investment. He is pro-
Queer Those who do not share this view will do we'll to
consult the fire losses while chief
and compare them with the records for equal earlier
period.
Due weight should be given to certain improvements
paratus has arrived taken the place
Of call From these changes instituted during Chief
Moneys time, benefits flow, the credit of which
not perhaps due to him. except his foresight and
contributed to bring the
about.
Let u.s. therefore, consideration of fire
losses Bridgeport extend it other cities Of about
the size scattered throughout the United States
It viii be discovered that Bridgeport is having fewer
losses than cities which have better apparatus and
of it, permanent men, fire houses and chiefs
who receive pay.
This difference may be taken represent Mooney rs
personal contribution fire loss saving Bridgeport.
It is pertinent that during the chiefs of office
the other member of the department has been
increased In has been increased two
three times But the chiefs salary has
and of fire marshal.
The trouble with Mooney is, he is fire fighter and
not diplomat He oends people in doing his duty He
has not learned off gracefully when
burs out honest advice when the tederfoot
have talked about the department. until it
likely they will their folly into action.
Chief Mooney probably will not get his salary in
crease. The mayor wants Is mill tax. A majority of
the aldermen want to appoint friends to the police force
They have just put through police grab ordinance back
ed by the mayor which has inflicted upon Bridgeport
increase in annual charges of than $4,000
It is poor outlook for deserving We are
sorry but fear Chief Mooney wait time
propitious to honest and faithful public servants
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
DISCOVERY OF KEROSENE.

The first test of kerosene for iIlumi-
mating purposes was made by S. p.
II:Idreth, of Ohio, eignty-seVen years
ago, Jan. 26. 1926. Springs of retro
Ieum had been struck in Ohio six
years tefore, and interfered SO much
with saltwater wells as to be consid-
cred a nuisance. HiIdreth suspected
its real value, and wrote of his test:
f'It affords a clear, brisk light when
burns d in tnissway Gin lamps in work
shops) and it.will be valuable arti-
Gle for lighting the street-lamps in the
future cities of Ohio" Despite tIIIs
test, kerosene remained unappreciated
until 1859, when Bowditch & Drake,
of New Haven, Conn, bored through
the rock at Titusvflle, Pa, and struck
oil att the depth of seventy feet. That
was the real beginning of the petro-
1eum industry in America, which has
been the foundation of many immense
fortunes. The first petroleum in COM
nercial quantities found in England
was at Fiddings, in Derbyshire in
1847, and a few years later e. w. Bin
nings and others commenced the
nanufa cture of illuminating oils from
it. OF late years oil has been found
in eastern Canada, California, Texas,
Kansas and many other parts of North
America.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27

parliament. The parliament consists
of a Senate with thirty-six members,
elected by the parliaments of the
States, and a House of Representa-
tives, elected by direct vote. The
population OF Australia, is now in the
neighhorhood of five millions A
gigantic project ts now on foot to
build a new city at CanbeITa, New
South Wales. as the capital of the
commonwealth.
One of the greatest foes to the de-
veloprnent of Australia has been the
lowIy rabbit. The first of these pests
were imported from England, and this
single pair of the rodents now have
an ancestry that runs into countless
millions. Swarming over the CONT
nent, they have brought devastation
and ruin in their wake, devouring
hoppers and 1ocusts of North America
are mild and harmless when compar-
ed with Austra1ia's scourge of rab-
bits. Until recent years the deserts
of the interior formed a barrier.
against the westward progress of the
found their way to Western Australia,
and only the hurried construction of a
rabbit-tight wire fence clear across 4he
continent, two Thousand miles long,
saved the fertile western regions from
ruin. Thousands of men are en-
eastern Austria the slaughter of the
pests is constant and unceasing, but
1t is still necessary to give all farms
the protection of wire fences. In
Australia the hatred of the pests is so
itense that nobody could be induced to
business has been built up in the ex-
portation Of the little animals to Eng
Land, where no such prejudice against
their use as food exists.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
HowEs SEWING MACHINE.

The first sewing machine built by
Elias Howe was given a private dem
onstration by it's inventor sixty-seven
years ago today, Jan. 27, 1876, Sew
ing ma chimes had previously been con-
structed by Thomas Saint, an English
man, in 1870; Duncan, also English,
in 1904; Adams and Dodge, Ameri-
cans, in 1918; Thimonnier, a French
man, in 1884, and Walter Hunt, an
EngIishman, in the same year. Howe's
machine was the first really practical
invention of its kind. He was a work
man employed in a Boston machine
shop, and worked out his sewing ma
chine idea in his spare moments. Sew.
eral months after the first trial Howe
secured an American patent, but was
una BILE to get capital to commence the
cture of his invention. He had
no better success in England, and re-
turned to America as a common @siA-
or being without funds to pay reF
passage During his absence abroad
others began the manufacture of ma
chimes similar to Howe's, and for
time it seemed that he would be de-
priVed of all the fruits of his labors.
Eventually the courts granted him
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
CITY CoNvENIENCEs IN A COUNTRY SCHOOL

I both adjustable and movable, with in
d1vidua1 platforms; and when all are
removed to one side, as many as zOO
people can be accommodated, thus
making it possible to use the room
for community gath er1ngs. The stere-
opticon in the wall of the classroom
emphasizes still further the fact that
this school is built for general COM
munity use as we'll as for ordinary
school purposes.
Every effort has been made to have
the model rural school at kirksville
approximate actual rural conditions
Although located the campus at
the KirksvilIe Normal School, it is de-
tached from the other buildings. The
pupils are real rural material. Every
morning a transportation wagon
brings in "a country children from a
distance of five miles. No town chill
dren are allowed to attend, because
it is distinctly a rural school An ex-
pert rural teacher is in charge and tn e
school she conducts is an observation
school. Candidates for rural-school
certificates attend 1T at least once a
day and observe her work, and after
two years Of training in the normal
school they receive practice work in
| the school.
Tea cheers who have gone out from
experience in this model rural school
are 500 per cent. better teachers says
Mr.. Foght; "But the best indication
| of the value of such a school is the
way its leading features have been
copied. In the country about Kinks
Vile many similar schools have been
| built. They do not always copy all
/ the details but the attic arrangem ont
| and the sanitary equipn ent are gen
orally duplicated Buildings modelled
on the Kirksville school have been
erected in Mississippi and Nebraska -
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
AUSTRALIANS CELEBRATE
THE 18TH ANNIVERSARY
OF SETTLEMENT

Throughout the commonwealth of
Australia a great celebration is now
in progress, commemorating the found
ing of the city Of Sydney, the first
permanent white settlement on the
continent, 125 years ago, Jan. 26, 1888.
Starting with a population of 1,O3O,
Sydney is now the home of half a
million, while its rival, Melbourne,
has passed the SOC, 600 mark.
before the founding of Sydney by
Governor Phillip. It is alleged that
French navigators visited the CONT
nent in 1881, while other authorities
give the credit of discovery to a Por-
tuguese, Manoel Godinho de Eridia, in
1901. The Dutch also assert that the
credit belongs to explorers from their
country, and it is certain that the
coast was first surveyed by Dutch
navigators early in the seventeenth
century. New Holland was the name
given to Western Australia by the
States General in 1865. Gradually the
English gained supremacy, and with
them the real history of Australia be-
gins Most of the early settlers were
convicts, and numbers of the richest
day are descended from those pioneers
who were sent to the Antipodes as a
punishment for their crimes. In the
new land thousands who had beer in
corrigible az home were transformed
into honest and useful citizens. The
discovery Of gold in 1851 gave a new
i'm petus to Australians development
Formerly divided into six colonies
in 1901 Australia was made a, fedora
tive union under the British crown,
with an autonomous constitution and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
MAHANS OPPOSITION

The Morning Telegram which Is
owned by the Mcneil family charges
that Rrvan,Mahan, former State Sena-
tor, Mayor of New London ana no"
Coasreesman-elecx, has recently re-
ceived large contracts for road build
ing from Highway Commissioner
Iames H. Macdonald. and that in
case Mr.. Macdonald is retained in Of
ice -Ma71an may receive more CON
tracts.
Now Mayaor Mahan is exceedingly
active in Thea movement to prevent the
coftirrna tions of William H. Caldwell
the czovernor's choice to succeed Mr..
Macdonald.
Is there any CO INJECTION between the
two circumstances. Is It Mahan the
STATESMAN, or4 Mahan the PRI-
vATE CONTRACTOR pEho is oppos-
M governor BALDWIN ssrF & lust pro-
gram, who hasE arrayed himself against
the people of Connecticut and against
the party which has nonored him.
Mr. Mahan is not charged with the
duties Of q Senator. His office OF
CONGRESSMAN is not related to the
highway service of Connecticut. Yet
he is extremely active in opposing his
party and the Governor In their con-
illusions as to the best way to deal
witt, a situation and a scandal which
has troubled the state for several
years. His activities require explana-
ton.
the hurry up call sent out from
New London to Democratic Senators,
Sunday, also requires explanation.
Among those who responded to the
cali were Senators Whitconb and
Newman of this city.
Senator whitcomb apparently did
not succunb to the Establishments
that were held out to him, and has
not aretrzyed himself against the policy
of reforming the highway department.
He is to be congratulated upon his
wisdom in this respect By maintain
ing firmly his purpose to support the
Governor and confirm Mr. Caldwell he
will keep his skirts free from the con-
Examination which must follow an as
ISOLATION with the Mahan movement
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27

How a small one-teacher school in
ences popularity supposed to be the ex-
elusive privilege of the city is demon
strated in the model rural school at
KfrksVi1le, Mo. according to H. w.
Fosht specialist in rural education for
the United States Bureau of Educa-
ton. Indoor toilets and shower baths,
drinking fountains, and a modern
heating plant, are shown to be posi-
bic in the country school however re-
mote from the city Furtherm ore. the
cost is said to be within the means of
a comparatively small community.
The kirksville school is conspicuous
for its utilization of every available
inch of space. It is only a one-story
building, slightly wider than the typi-
cal Missouri country school, but the
attic and basement are both put to
valuable use. The attic is employed
for manual training and domestic
science, and there is an excellent her
barium. The basement contains the
heating plant, a combination of hot
water and hot air, described as very
economical in use; the fuel room; q,
bulb room for the outdoor garden;
and dark room for developing photo
graphs.
The machinery of the school plant
consists of an ordinary pneumatic
pressure tank, operated by a, gasoline
engine. A septic-tank sewer system
is maintained at small expense.
The main floor of the building. be-
sides containing the classroom prop
er, has small community library,
separate from the school library, en-
phasizing the purpose of the rural
school as a community center. The
classroom itself occupies most Of the
floor. The desks and seats in it are
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27

goes to a ball game he takes off his
coat, makes himself thoroughly. com
Portable, and proceeds to forget all
about strikes and boycotts and con-
tempt of court and his Socialist heck
lers. AT ball games, and all other
open-air events where a hat is not per-
missible or desirable, the Gompers
head is covered with skull cap of black
silk, union made, for he has a horror
of .draughts.
As an orator Mr. Gompers is pond
erous, precise, and enuncfates his
words carefully and clearly. but with
al impressively. He gives the auditor
the Impression of man who knows
what he is talking about. His brand
of oratory is not provocative of wild
demonstrations, such as greet the YER
bal efforts of big BiIP' Haywood, but
1T gets across" Silk shirts, red wine,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
GoSfPERs. IS SON OF A
LONDON CIGAR-MAKER

Samuel Gompers, now in his thirty
second term as president of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, was born in
London on Jan. 1T, 1850. His father,
Saul Go.npers. was a, cigar-maker. The
future labor leader had but four years
schooling when he was apprenticed to
g cobbIer. Repairing shoes did not
suit his taste. and he learned the trade
of his father, meanwhile attending
night school When Samuel was thir-
teen the Gompers family emigrated 20
the Land of Promise, and sometimes
than Kew York. At fourteen the
xoungster became a member of the
first cigar-makers' union. Ten years
he worked valiantly in the cause of
labor organization before he was re-
warded with his first office. that of
secretary of the local union. He or
ganized the first national union of
cigar-makers, now an, international
body and was one 1efo the founders
of the American Federation Of Labor,
which was formed protest against
the old Knights of Labor. For years
after he had gained the leadership in
the federation he supported himself
BY toiling long hours at the cigar
makers bench, and drew on the funds
of the organization only for his ex
penses which seldom went above $50
g. year. Gradually the federation
spread over the United States ana
Canada, taking many trades under it's
wing and President Gompers was able
to devote his entire time to organiza-
ton, with a salary that enables him
to live comfortably, but not in luxury.
Personally, President Gompers is
conservative, sycophant fawning at
the feet of capital=if you read the
Socialist press; according to other
Journals, he is mad fanatics, a radi-
cal of radicals, who goes about with
pocket full of bombs. (For addition
a details, see the Appeal to Reason
and the Los Angeles Times.) To the
unprejudiced eye. he looks like a
scholarly and well-fed college profess
Eor He-is short and stocky, and car
ries himself as rigid as a ramrod. His
hair is tinged with gray and his keen
ryes are specialized. His lips are thin
and austere. So far he seems mild,
but his strong. buII-doggish jaw bellies
this Impression. There is a determine
ton in every aspect of that jaw, but
especially in the way ne grips his
union-made cigar. He dresses like a
country minister, nearly always in
black He is of benevolent and be-
p:gnant disposition, that is plain; but,
also, he is always absolutely convinced
fls1t he isI$m Gan Ia soT goes anead,
hurdling an such obstacles as courts
that may stand in his way.
Ma Gompers is a naturalized Amer
lean citizen. and. if further proof is
needed of his Americanisrn, he is an
--------I- --@ie ha@Abau ian. When he
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
7 he D. NJ. Read CO.
Established 1857
Spring Novelties in Wash Fabrics
l he first of the Silk and Cotton Mixtures

Fancy stripes, white grounds with co1ored lines
very stylish combinations, black green, lavender pink
blue etc. Very desirable for waists gowns, and &A
for mems neg1ige shirts,
SO inches wide, As
Jacquard Stripes moderately heavy fabric and
handsome white grounds with colored stripes
woven figures For women's gowns and mems shirts,
81 inches wide, IS cts
Shown on the main floor, opposite the Silk Section.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
GOVERNOR Foss' PLAN

Governor Eugene T. Foss of Massachusetts proposes
New England commission for the better control of the
New England transportation systems He proposes to
constitute the of the heads Of the
missions in Maine Hampshire, Vermont Massac1r-
pose is to establish body which may suggest uniform
methods of control regulation ultimate aim is to
have the several States represented the DIRECTOR
ATE of the railroad systems where each state
prised at first hand of propositions Of railroad policy
cipiency.
Undoubtedly Governor Foss' plan is wise one Con
nectcut should give him aid
1t is difficult for the states tc deal inteigent1y
successfully with the railroads. acting alone It equally
little authority entirely within
state.
The tendency toward government ownership of rail
roads Enthusiastically gaining Unless newspaper
mistaken it will be the ultimate and early solution of
railroad problem
No state will oftener have stronger man for its ex
ecutve than Governor Foss is The energy he has ex-
pended trying bring order out of railroad
justice out of railroad favotism will be seldom brought
to governors chair.
Yet effort to bring railroad monopoly to book
any considerable matter detail attended by
similar greater expenditure of talent force
railroads dispute with the states the right be the
e1nment and oftener than the railroad
giver of the law.
Moreover the very things that Governor Foss pro-
has the right direct the that shall
of his property shares extent ownership
that property
The rate making powers which the states have ass1n-
ed within recent of the of ownership
He who property for the purpose of producing
commodity to sell at profit takes partner and parts
with essential element of his property power
somebody else z fixes the price he may charge:
FULL OWNERSHIP MUST FOLLOW.
Connecticut has sheltered and supported the RAILROAD
monopoly. Connecticut has chartered the railroad
nopol prey upon the other states herself u
the poor service the killings the deficient
the insoence of railroad hirelngs Assem-
bly, and in the obbies thereof She gets thousand
Governor Foss shouts raIying cry. Connecticut
ought to rally.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
black cigars and baseball ares tn
Gompers dissipations.N
TO DEBATE ON SUFFRAGE.

Members of the Holy Name Society
of St Charles Church will debate to-
morrow night on this subject; RE
solved, T1lat women should be grant
ed the right of suffrage On the af-
firmative side will be Dr. T. J. Shea
Stephen Boucher and Senator A Nc
Neil, Jr., and the mega tive side will
be upheld by Hugh J. Lavery, Frank
J. Brennan and William Flynn. Fol-
lowing the debate there will be an en-
tertainment introducing several local
artists.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
AUTOMOBILE lABLAzE.

An automobile owned by Mrs. Ruth
caught fire from a leaking
gasoline tank, in front Of the Plaza
theatre, Saturday night. A still alarm
to Chemical / saved the machine from
destruction.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27

justice, and Howe realized over two
million dollars from his invention be
fore the patent expired.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27

Hartford-The steamers on the Com
necticut river are still running their
regular trips and seem likely to con-
tinue all winter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27

New Haven-Tersia Boucher, 10,
called at police headquarters and said
she had been driven from her home
by her mother because she let the fire
in a stove 80 out.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
to make a hasty Reduction of Stock.

to make hasty Reduction of Stock.
The mild winter is the for these remark
able reductions in the prices of Blankets It good
time to buy.
One hundred pairs of extra large all wool Blankets,
finely finished light and fluffy with wide bindings IN
colors to match borders regularly sold at $500 pair
$3.0S, very special
One lot of heavy wool Blankets, attractive and ser
vceable P1aids, regularly sold at $3.50,
1913 to close out.
Another lot of Plaid Blankets, very handsome COM
bnations,
$3.50 pair.
Fift pairs of Cotton Blankets nicely finished,
worth $500,
$1.49 each.
Gray Blankets at rs, .s5, $r.a5 and S.. so pair.
In the Basement,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
7 he D. M. Read Co.

Many ten cent goods here at eight
cents. Toys, Playing Cards, Paint,
Varnish, Stain, Gold Paint, Tooth,
Nail, Hair, Scrub, Shoe and Paint
Brushes, Dress Shields, Rubber Heels.
PadIOcks, Tools, Hammers, FIatchefs.
Screw Drivers, Coat Hangers, Dog Col
lars, Tin Ware, Enamel Ware, Chair
Seats, Small Aluminium articles, Violet
Witch Hazel, OH and other bottle
goods; tubes of Glue. In fact almost
everything you pay ten cents for.
HERE AT EIGHT GENTS
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
Cashmere Gloves, Half>price.

CASHMERE OIOVeS, I TaH~PTICe.
Brown, gray and blackGloves, warm, feeced on the
inside, few of them silt-lined A quality that has
sold for 50 far,
% o close out.
The Valentines have appeared. It is not far cry
fourteenth of February, and the time select
is early. :.
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md hlD wffe vsre -eepAsateo, Mrs.
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Mrs. Classgs's attorney, . former Dis-
trtct-Attorney Of Brooklyn. was indicted
together with Fritz sand Chauffeur :.
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Merrill was dismissed and the trial Of
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ter part Of this month.
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