The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-19
STAMFORD FIREMEN FIGHT ON UNCONSCIOUS
 OF STORED DYNAMITE
when Fire is Conquered Learn That Explosive is Stored in Cellar Hameseder Arrested But
 Let Of Easily.
Especial to The Farmer.)

Especial to The Farmer.)
 Stratford, June 19-WhiIe the Strat- 1oro hremen were busily engaged put tlng out the bad fire on Avenue A in the Avon park district early Tuesday morning, they were all unconscious of the Iact that they were in danger of Delng blown to atoms every minute they were at work on the blaze. It was not discovered until yesterday that Carl Hameseder, the occupant of the upstairs apartment in the house had no less than 150 pounds of blast ing dynamite stored in the cellar right Where it would explode if a beam or the bricks from the chimney fell upon It.. The salvation of the f1remen lay in the fact that they succeeded in putting out the fire before it reached the first floor. If they had not been able to get 1t under control the chirn- ney undoubtedly would have fallen when it's supporting timbers had been consumed and as one man expressed it, "All Avon park would have been blown into the sky"
 Hameseder's anxiety to keep the fire from getting into the cellar of the house and a chance remark dropped in the hearing of State Policeman Rowe Wheeler led him to begin an investigation. The result was that when he, with Fire Chief Allen Judson, Town Clerk H. c. Lowell, and Con stable Fred Palmer who had all been at the fire Tuesday morning, began to search the cellar of the house they found more than 50 pounds of the explosive stored there. Hemeseder was located and he admitted that he had just removed 100 pounds from the cellar few hours before the authori- ties came to search the house.
 The man was immediately placed under arrest and. brought to the Strat- ford town court where Judge Charles H. Peck yesterday afternoon imposed upon him a fine of $25 and costs on two counts, the total amounting to $75. The maximum penalty for such an of fence is a. fine of $3,o0o and 10 years in jail so he was fortunate in get ting off as lightly as he did.
 To say that the local fire laddies are batting themselves on the back and congrat atulating themselves that they put out this fire before any burn ing tinabers or other heavy beams or bricks fell on the dynamite, would in deed be putting it mildly. The thought of what would certainly have happen ed to the scores of people standing around the burning building if the explosion had occurred, is not a pleas ant one to entertain.
 MASONIC TEMPLE FOR
 STAMFORD.
 That work will soon be started on a new Masonic Temple for Stratford was stated at the last meeting or st. Johns lodge of Masons held Tuesday evening in the local hall in the Cen ter. The members of the lodge voted to cooperate with the members of the Masonic Building Fund association in an endeavor to add few more thous- and dollars to the sum already col lected The Building Fund association has already raised more than a thous- and dollars and a lot has been pur- chased just east of the Methodist church on Main street. The building which now stands on the lot will be moved and it is probable that before another year has passed a handsome Masonic Temple one of the finest small town temples in the state will be standing on the lot.
 FISH DEALERS ARRESTED.
 Two men, fish dealers from Milford, passed through the Center last even ing driving a poor old horse which they were beating for all they were worth as they rode along singing at the top of their lungs and shouting at women /and girls along the way. They were 'fspotted' 'inm medfa tely and someone residing on East Broadway teIephoned for State Policeman Rowe Wheeler. In less time than it takes to tell the doughty state policeman was after the fish mongers on his mo- tor cycle and they were soon lodged in the Stra tford cooler" They were too intoxicated to tell their names