The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-27
WESTPORT GAR BARN
 TO GO IS RUMOR FROM
 CONN. co. N. H. OFFICES
Contractor Chappa Still Has His Troubles = Fire Police To Have Stronger Organization.
tBy Our Special corres.)

| Westport, Sept. 27-It is understood
 by the local motormen and conduc- 1 tors and others connected with the | Westport branch of the trolley service | that officials of the company have long been considering the advisability
 of discontinuing with the Riverside
 avenue car barn. It seems probable now that many local business men | have declared that the car barn and | the storing of cars in the streets | is a nuisance, that the company will
 take action within a short time. l Some of the tro1leymen declare that there is a prevailing rumor that the
 car barn will be closed up the first 1 of the year and that thereafter the
 NorwaIk barns will be made the head l quarters for all local cars.
 It is said here that officials higher
 up have declared that the Riverside
 avenue car barn was unnecessary and | that it was al load on the company.
 As the company does not cherish | holding onto unnecessary equipment | it seems likely that the barn will soon l become a, memory.
 TrolIeymen who have their homes 1 here will not look with favor upon | making the Norwalk barns their head quarters. The change will compel the crews of the Compo beach, Main St. and Railroad station cars q to walk back to Westport from NorwaIk, that
 is unless the trolley company can eff 1 feet some satisfactory arrangement that will overcome this condition. Not caring to risk sending another steam roller. into the Saugatuck river, the Warren Bros. Co.,, Thursday in or
 der to get one of their rollers from
 the east side of State street bridge to the west side of the bridge, sent the roller up North Main street over the King street bridge and down Riv- erside avenue. The pavement con tractors are now laying the warrenite upon both sides of State street hill. Because of du1lness in it's line of
 business, the Charles H. Kemper leather plant in Riverside avenue is closed down for a few days. Mrs. Rose Nash and daughter, HeI- en, of Weston are the guests of Mrs. | Edward Keene.
 As the Eastern Underwear Co.,, in
 Fairfield, is closed down until next i Tuesday because of business dullness,
 their many Westport employees are en- | toying a brief vacation.
 Contractor Chappa who has the | contract for laying the new sewers in town is still experiencing trouble in the digging of the trenches and the | laying of the pipes. While in State street there were constant cave-ins
 with injuries following to the work CTS and the consequent delaying of the work. It is now near Dead Mans brook that the contractor is meeting
 
 in this locality and the ground condi- tions marshy. AS result the ditches are constantly filled with water. The
 sewer pipes are being laid down Myr-
 tie avenue to East Church street | through that street to connect with l the State street sewer.
 The revival of the Westport Fire police is now upon substantial basis | and will be made better at the next
 regular meeting. That meeting will
 be held at the VigiIant Engine Co. house in Riverside avenue on Tuesday
 evening, Oct. T when it is expected
 many new members will be admitted
 and the organization inaugurated in
 to one of more social basis.
 The semi-annua1 meeting of Tem- 1 pie lodge, F. and A. M, was held
 Thursday evening when the Fellow craft degree was conferred upon a number of candidates. At the next
 meeting, Thursday, Oct. g, the Ap-
 prentice degree will be worked upon these candidates.
 E. N. Sipperly ST., is now in New
 town where he has his engines at
 work drilling several wells.
 Joseph Nolan, son of Dr. J. M No Ian has entered the New York col Iege of Pharmacy. He has been working in the Westport pharmacy for the past summer.
 The cases of David Hawes and Leo Best, the Bridgeport men who land ed in the Norwa1k hospital following a wild ride in Riverside avenue. on Sept. 15 will be heard here on Mon day. Hawes is charged with reckless driving and also with driving a ma chine while under the influence of li- quors. Best is charged with intoxfca- ton. Hawes' bond is $500 and Best's $50. Miss Dorothy Day who has been as- 1 sisting Miss Katherine Hut at the public library has secured a position as assistant to the chief cataloguer in the main library of the New York
 public library system at A2nd street and Fifth avenue. Miss Day is a re- cent graduate of the Staples High
 school and has been at the local H- brary for several seasons.
 It is announced that w. H. Green
 will continue at the head of the West
 port Drug Co.,, in State street. Re- gently it was rumored that when the lease expired Sept. 26, that the owner of the building, Louis B. Toquet would
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