The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-25
ISTRATFORD PEOPLE TO
 DANCE FRIDAY EVENING
Fgrst open Air Dance Of Season TO Be
 Held At PoOtatuck Yacht Club.
fsnecial to The Farmer.)

stra+ford. June z5.-The first dance Inf the season will be held at cne IPootafuc1z Yacht club Friday evening ixvhen the Board of Governors wlA ttencer a comphmentary anar .sL.1. Io as.s =lrnembers Of the club and their drlenos- indications are that the dance will De lone of the largest ever held at the 4 tr7T,h1,ouSe. It will be held on the faar~a ouen veranda of the club over i1oolxing the river and if the evening lss only e pleasant one as regards the I-veatf1er there is every reason to pe- t15eve that the dance will be one or f4be rnoz4 successful ever held at the fPootatuclz.
 Settles Mothers Estate.
 Hfrs. F. W. Palmer of North Main .ssr.ef has been in the west for the f-saSt few weeks settling the estate or t1,e, T1other who died recently. Under s4fe will of the deceased Mrs. Palmer ifs made heir to $5,oOe and large lpiece of land in the west
 Modify Stratford First.
 Tn case of a fire in Stratford it is xsSz4ter to notify the Stradord fire de- fT,zrtment than it is to notify the fz1-,s-a-orf 5eDartrnent Proof of this khas just been brought home most for kcibly to Stratford people Just one lueeIx ago yesterday morning the hsrratford fire department was notl- k6ed that there was a. fire at Avenue A fsr the Avon Park district Although l@he fire when discovered had gained Eureat headway the local fremen by Erezpondi1s< immediately with the au- k4o chemical and laying in two lines of nose from a nearby hydrant had the k6re under control within half an hour Iafter they had been notified about it. fThex nut out the fire when 1t looked las if such a thing was impossible to ido-
 Yesterday morning, just one week flater almost to the Identical hour of ithe morning at which the first fire oc- lr1rrred. the Logan barn at St Mich a.efz cemetery was discovered in names Instead of notifying the k<tratford fire department-the logical Ahsn~- to do under the circumstances hhe Bridgeport department was noti- ded. The Bridgeport chemical and kntf1er apparatus had to come way out Srorn the center of the city with the result that when they arrived on the &-~ane the barn was almost burned to ff1e ground and the Bridgeport fire haen could do nothing but lay their hose. and extinguish the smoulderins hruans of the building
 And hare is the irony of the thing n~or tfree-quarters of an hour before H,e vzas notified by Chief Mooney ol khe Rrfdzeport department just where Ere fire was. Chief Allen D. Judson of khe local department was seated IT xhe upstairs window of his home IT khe Center watching the reflection ol khe fire Tn the sky. Although he wal kretty sure that the fire was within Fine sstra4ford town limits he did no know for a certainty and so remain ked at his home adjoining the truck house, patiently waiting for the alarm lo- be sent in
 If the owners of the burning barr Rad notified the Stratford department hf the fire instead of telephoning ovel ko Bridgeport, the chances are thai khe building might have been saved krhe house on Avenue A, less than . Euarter of a mile from the Logan pIace, was saved. so it seems very likely that the barn might have beer haved also
 But the local department was not notified and 1t was not until Chiei hfooneyl telephoned to Chief -Judsor zslxfng him to come down to the fire ko take charge of the work of putting hut the last burning enbres that tht E1ratford Chief knew definitely wher rs Rhe fire was. He could hardly be ex hected to go looking for the fire if thu Rrvnera of the buirning building wert hot interested enough and did no have confidence enough in the Ioca hepzrtments to telephone in an alarn ko kSra when the fire was discovered
 This Is not the first time that thi habit of telephoning first to tn. Bridgeport fire department when ther, kH a fire. has been accompanied witt disastrous results and 1t is to be hop hd that for their own sake people will awaken to the fact that it is general1l khe wiser policy to telephone to tn, home department for assistance 1T 1rase of fire Then if # is necessary to aHlk aid from the Bridgeport de rartment, let the stratford chief d. nTrr nHTxf4am.