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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28
Stratford Avenue Will Be
 Paved When The Trolley
 Monopoly Is Ready--Not Before

As condition precedent to the pavement of Strat- avenue requires that the city shall give notice orders citizens interested Such notice has been properly gven by advertising and by mail to those citizens whose property affected
 @These have been informed that they must set back curb and gutter cut trees and do certain other necessary on before September If they do not do it the city will do it for them and charge the cost to the property
 
 Let us suppose, however that the city authorities should fail to give the legal notice to the property
 Then the property would not be obliged to do of those things could the city do the work for h and charge it to him. One property owner in no proper notice had been given could hold the work til such notice had been given
 The middle of Stratford is occupied by large property holder which has unusual d with respect to paving the street. That is the Connecticut Company, which required to pave between it's rails and two feet on either sde
 The Connecticut Company that the work is ready done is not ready to pave and there is probability that the whole project will be held up for long tie just it Fairfield
 But before the Connecticut Company be required pave it's portion of the highway the city must make order to it to do and must serve this order upon the the work
 If the work not done at the expiration of this set time the city may do it and charge the cost to the pany.
 It appears however, that order has been legally made to the company and the company is not obliged to lay the and the city cannot lay it. until at least
 thirty have elapsed after the order has been served
 In the controversy between Mayor Clifford B. Wilson and Col M H. Rogers chairman of the Permanent Paving Commission It would appear n the light of these cir cmstances that Mir Rogers right refusing to permit the work to be done until the Connecticut Company is
 if the city had placed itself in the position to do the part of the work if the company refused to, then paving might proceed but city, apparently has not placed itself in this position and it would be folly for the city to do only it's share of the work extraordinarily costly, as we'll.
 Once more ask the question, Why is Mayor Will scrpuous about placing the city the legal posi- inct expense upon the citizens so hesitatng about taking the legal steps necessary to order the Con neccut company to lay it's share of street tme9''
 Perhaps the streak of macadam through the costly Warrenite Fairfield avenue is the answer
 Perhaps the powerful Connecticut Company is more potent in the of Bridgeport than the citizens
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28

are satisfied that such nominations by a party convention or primary can be replaced by another mode of proceed ing which gives them a better oppor- tunity to make their wishes prevail, to institute this other mode. And what the State can institute it can protect"
 There are certain items of candi- dates expenses which, in Governor Ba1dwin's opinion, it would be ,un- wise to have the State pay. Among these are mentioned the, cost of cir culatfng nominating petitions and of hiring transportation for voters to polling places. The one, Governor Baldwin asserts, has shown that many persons sign such petitions without in tending to vote for the candidate they thus help to. place in nomination.; the other could be made unnecessary by establishing more polling places.
 Hall rent and a candidates personal travel, postage and telegraph bills, might properly be borne by the State as we'll as other items, Governor Bald win asserted.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28
w. & w. BAND CONCERT AT
 SEASIDE PARK SUNDAY.

The Wheeler & Wilson band will render a, concert Sunday afternoon at Seaside Park. It will be the last of the park Tconcerts for the season. Di- rector John A. Lynch of the band has prepared the following program: March, Our Republic, Erstberger; Overture, Fehlsenmulle, Reisigger; Waltz, Kunsterleben, Strauss; Charac- teristice piece, The Butterflies, Bendix; grand selection, Tannhauser, Wagner; Flower, song, Alteration, Barnard; i; March, Philo Senate, Hill; Star Spangled Banner.
 A currant red serge, trinam ed with dark and blue satin at the cuffs and revers, is chic and becoming.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28
THE COST OF LIVING IN THE COLLEGES

There exists comfortable sort of feeling that any wide awake boy girl go through the best colleges. If his parents can't sign the checks he his
 great many parents who have young folks to go to college this fall do not find the problem easy. The shng they up against is suggested report just made, giving carefully prepared statistics of student penses at Williams College. The figures show that the average per student in $682, while $927 It is said that Cornell University average student costs have increased per ce and many other colleges even nore.~os
 certain student to the writer takes of a furnace, visiting it five times day He waits table,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28
The First Silks for Autumn Arrive.
Arrive.

The late days of August generally bring introduc- tions to advance styles in garments or fabrics. Here come the first,
 Egypta Crepes, which are of as eccentric a weave as the name would indicate. Silk, and all silk, of lustrous threads, and though but three or four colors are here, one can judge the family by them, and they might have been woven by the Sphinx, so distinctive and oriental do they look.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28

The first trial of a postal-car service
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28
EDITORIAL NOTES

To-day is the centenary of the birth of Jones Very, an American poet and critic whose works are still valued and appreciated by the literati, although not generally known. Very was born at Salem, Mass, August 28, 1913, the son of one of those hardy shippers who once roaned the seven seas and carried Salem's name and fame to all the ports of the world. In his youth the future poet made several voyages with his father, visiting Europe and the East Indies. He graduated from Harvard in 1886, and for two years thereafter he was a Greek tutor in the university. In 1S43 he as Hcens- ed as a Unitarian minister by the Cambridge Association, but never un- dertook a charge. In temperament he was a mystic and re1igiously mel ancholy, and of so retiring a nature as to be un1tted for the active duties Iy life in his native city, writing yer ses and occasionally contributing es- says to the Salem Gazette and the Uni tarian publications.
 The first volume of his collected works, Essays and Poems," appear ed in 1889, and gave him a certain vogue throughout New England. Eventually he gained many admirers among the Hterau all over Europe and America. His sonnets are regarded by many critics as the best ever pro duced by an American poet, while his essays are scholarly, finished in style, and sympathetica1ly critical. He died in Salem in 1880, and since then new editions of his poems and essays have been published.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28

District Attorney of New York county doesn't sound like very inn posing or important job, but Charles Seymour Whitman has made himself an international figure while holding that position. The man who is known the world over as the imp1acable foe of the New York underworld, the man who sent Becker to the death house and shattered the police graft ''sys- tenn" of the American metropolis, is in Norwich, Conn.,, forty-fve years ago to-day.
 "A thin-faced, square-jawed young rube'' he was described by a Tammany Hall politician when he first began his New York career a dozen years ago. He's the sort of fresh smart alec yap who thinks he can stick his smashed. When we've given him 8 few biffs on the beak hell take 8 tumble to himself and either sneak or come in and train wid de gang"
 On the basis of past performances, that prediction seemed sound and sen sible.' MT. Whitman is still on the job, with nose intact, and hardly a week passes that he does not project said nose into places where his acute sense of smell may possibly detect the odor or corruption. He is more than district attorney-he is the fly in the
 
 and all self-constituted reformers must reckon with! What will Whit man do?' has for several years been the chief concern of New York poM- ticians.
 Whitman's father was a Presbyter- ian clergyman, without much money. and the son had to work his way through law school, after graduating from Amherst college. He was not highly successful in the practice of law, but his ability as an orator made him a popular campaign speaker, and in 1901 his party allegiance was re- Warded with an appointment as assist ant corporation counsel of New York. He first became prominent by organ izing a movement against a street rail- way corporation grab and effectuaI- ly side-tracked the scheme.
 Nine years ago MT. Whitman was appointed a city magistrate, and it was in that capacity that he began his long and successful fight against po- lice graft. He had not been on the bench very long when he discovered that police protection was a matter of barter and sale, and that there were many wealthy rogues against whom the police found it absolutely impos- sib1e to get evidence. He headed a raid of his own and easily secured plenty of evidence against the offend CTS who had long def1ed the law by splitting with the cops.''
 In 1907 MT. Whitman was elevated to the court of general sessions and in 1910 he left the bench to assume the office of district attorney. Since then his friends have talked of him for mayor, for governor and even for 1 President of the United States.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28
PERSONAL MENTION.

pr. T. F. Cummings of this city en- trtained at his cottage at Silver Beach this week. his father, Thomas Cum r1ings of Bristol and his brother, Joseph and the latter's wife, all of Bristol At a house party and dinner for his guests, Miss Ada c. Buck of this city, who was guest With her sister Miss Anna w. Buck, entertained with several piano selections.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28

Miss Runtz-Rees who has recently returned from the international wom- ans suffrage congress at Buda-Pest,
 spoke to the executive board of the
 Wornan's Suffrage association at its monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. S. T. Davis at Sasco Hill yesterday. Miss Runtz-Rees gave a vivid and in teresting description of the proceed ings at the Buda-Pest congress. Af- terward those present discussed plans for the coming state convention at Hartford in October when Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, international president
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28

Three shades are in of the Main St. windows rich terra cotta taupe and canard blue These plain and brocade, for this Fashion demands that coat different from the dress skirt The plain intended for gowns, the brocade for coa and at the time coats of such coorS be with either white or black gowns with good effect.
 Other colors expected daily, and when there time stop at the Silk Section to look at the novelties
 Egypta Crepes Silk Section.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28

To-day is the festival of St. Au- gustine of Hippo, the greatest of four great fathers of the Latin church. No other man has ever exercised such power over the Christian church, or made so profound an impression upon Christian thought He was born about the middle of the fourth cen tury, the son. of Patricius, a burgess of the town of Numidia, and Monica, woman who has become a type of woman1y saintliness. Augustine's fath- CT was a pagan, but his mother a de- voted adherent of the new faith, and she 1abored Valiantly to convert her husband and to rear her son as Christian. Eventually she succeeded in both objects In his youth Angus tine was far from being an example of high morality. He was hardly raTe than a boy when he became the father of iI1egitimate son, to whom he was devotedly attached. At Car thage he studied for the career of a rhetorician, and became a devotee of the theatre. After various phdloso- p11ic wanderings and searchings for truth, he at length fell back on the faith of his mother. The preaching Of Ambrose further convinced him of the truth of Christianity. Return ing to his native town, he formed a small religious comm unity, where the members ahd all things in common, as in the early church. Henceforth Augustines life was occupied with ecclesiastical labors, the writing of books, and the great controversies in which they engaged him.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

The increase in the tax rate by the
late legislature is largely due to the
passage of the good roads measure
and increase in appropriations for
country schools, both of which OBJ
jects the country public ought to ap-
prove.-Elk River Star-News.
The "country public'' is hard
and tickle master. What it approves
of today it may disapprove of a
week or month hence. No legisla-
ture ever has or ever will give general
satisfaction. If every appropriation
asked for is granted the legislature
is damned for it's extravaganza, and
if the appropriations demanded are
scaled down or refused the legisla-
ture is accused of niggardliness.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Park River, n. D., is advertising
for chief of police who can play
a trombone, sing in the church choir,
perform the duties of janitor in the
city hall, do street commissioner
work. direct private theatricals and,
in his spare moments, pose as an
ornament to the village. We know
only of one man who could fill the bill,
but he's too lazy.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Remember, June II is Good Roads
day. The public-spirited citizens of
every community in the state should
endeavor to improve stretch of road
on that day. Just for the novelty
of the thing volunteer days labor
on the roads on June u. If only ten
or twenty rods of bad roads in each
town and village is improved it
means the betterment of several
miles of roads in the state at large.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Already there are several an
nounced candidates in the field for
congress in the new tenth district,
which is comprised of the counties of
Chisago, Pine, Kanabec, Mile Laos,
Isanti, Anoka, Wright and part OF
Hennepin. Hon. Victor L. johnson
of Chisago, who is serving his second
term in the state senate and who has
an excellent record, is one of those
who will have to be reckoned with.
and he is a vote-getter.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

AS anticipated, the Elwell road
law is meeting with strong opposi-
tion. Three hundred and fifty
farmers, for instance, we're unani-
nous, at a hearing in the O]mstead
county court house, in voicing their
protest against the construction of a
proposed highway under the provis.
ions of this law. And there is 40
parently more trouble of a similar
nature ahead.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Good roads agitation is bringing
results. In every section of the state
extensive road Improvements are
being planned, and, better still, in
numerous instances the work Of bet
tering the highways has commenced.
If the towns and counties will CO.
operate with the state-there can be
no general improvement of road con-
ditions unless the towns and counties
work in harmony with the state
authorities Minnesota will soon lead
the van Of progressive good roads
states. 1t matters not under what
law stretch of permanent good road
is constructed SO it is constructed.
1t is results that are wanted. A
good start will be given the cause of
road-improvement this year, and
next year more miles of good roads
will be constructed in Minnesota
than in any previous ten years of it's
history.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22
GOOD ROADS DAY.

Chapter 235 Laws of 1913, Section
%. GOOD ROADS DAY. The
third Tuesday of June in each veal
is hereby designated as 'Good Roads
Day" and the governor shall an.
nual]y, on or before the first day OF
June. by public proclamation: re-
quest the people of the state to con-
tribute labor, material or money
toward the improvement of public
highways in their respective COM
munities, upon that day,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

DR.. Brackell, secretary of the state
board of health, is quoted as saying
that CDR. Friedmann's methods in
this country have been most unscien-
tifc and resemble those Of a charla-
tan rather than of d inaf1 Of SCIENCE y
At any rate, his methods SAVIOR OF
commercialism=he has proven him
self to be 1nercenary.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22
WHO CIRES FOR EXPENSE?

Borrowing on bond issues is SO easy
that too often the extravaganza of it
is overlooked. There is tendency
on the part of cities as we'll as school
districts to indulge in luxuries so
long as the payment of the bill can
be passed along to some one to come
later. We should have the facilities
we need because we need them, and
not because we can get them. st.
Paul Pioneer-Press. =
The pessimistic old Pioneer-Press
ought to know that unless we have
$50, 600 school houses in every town
ship, 5000 jails scattered around
promiscuously in the forests of north
ern Minnesota and every frog pond in
the state drained dry there will be
no reasonable excuse for disposing of
the Virginia bonds in which a couple
EOf million dollars of the permanent
trust funds are invested. When the
duck ponds are all drained and the
fire-breaks are all constructed a. few
million dollars of the permanent
funds could be utilized in digging a
canal to connect the metropolis of
Stevens county with the great lakes.
Then irrigation canals will soon be
needed, and there is urgent necessity
for 5000, 600 addition to the new
capitol. Convert the bonds into
cash and there will be no trouble in
expending the proceeds.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Congressman Burke Of South Da-
kota expresses the opinion that the
Underwood tariff measure will cause
business depression and effect the de-
feat of the democratic party. 1.-THE
bill unquestionably discriminates
against the farmers of the north
west,' says Mr.. Burke. There is
one thing certain-if the measure
causes business depression democrat
will not be elected president of the
United States in 1916
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Mexican newspapers have begun a
campaign against the United States
and some of them advocate boycott
of this country. If the usurping as
sassin, Huerta, does not place his
hireling newspaper agitators in check
Uncle Sam is liable to give him a
slap on the wrist which will make
ia squirm.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Mexico has negotiated a loan OF
S25, 900, 900 in London for the restora.
tion Of the railroads in the land Of
revolutions. From existing con.
ditions in the greaser republic the
bankers who furnished the money
appear to be taking particularly
heavy risks, as the so-called govern.
ment changes every month or two.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

W. A. Hicken of Duluth, commits
sioner of public safety. who has been
on the job but three months, faces a
recall. Objections to the ';lid''
placed on the city by him is given as
the reason for the movement. In an
instance of this sort is a recall a stel
toward better government? We
should answer in the negative.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22
MANY people in Minnesota he]iev

Many people in Minnesota believe
that Congressman James Manahan is
right when he says the tariff bill
that passed the house and is now be.
fore the senate is "sectional and dis.
honest.' Hugh Halbert and the
granny Current Topics club of St.
Paul to the contrary notwithstand.
ing. -.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

A couple of women and man, in
the guise of a bridal party, pulled
off few scientific shop-lifting stunts
in Minneapolis the other day,
gathering if several hundred dollars
worth of jewelry. AS this happened
in Minneapolis the police are Of
course still looking for the scientists.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Some papers are missing from the
navy department.. May be the new
secretary of the navy: who is a mere
landlubber. took them home to famil-
iarize himself with the terms used
by the mariner.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Governor Eberhart has returned
from the east fully determined &c
call an extra session of the legis]a.
ture to act on a public utilities
measure. Evidently the governor
does not stand in awe of the Satur.
day Lunch club of Minneapolis.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Some Chicago scientist is studying
out plan to prevent cyclones. So
far as results are concerned he might
as we'll waste his time in evolving a
plan to dissolve the trusts.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

There are indications that when
Oscar Underworld tariff bill energies
from the senate it's features will be
so badly battered that it's author will
be unable to recognize it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

1t is said that John E. Wilkie, for
ii years chief of the United States
secret service, will resign-probably
forced out by the democratic admin
istration. The government will have
no easy task in finding a man to fill
Mr.. Wilkes position.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

The fact that the big gun factories
of Europe are running day and night
forces is strong indication that Mr..
Bryan's world peace is assured!
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

According to the Duluth Herald a
Madison, Wis, man says "the great
est single force in the world is
mother.' How about the force which
impels the office boy to attend the
baseball game?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Remember that the third Tuesday
in June is Good Roads day. Devote
that day to the holy cause of road
Improvement.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Foreigners are not permitted tc
own real estate in Japan, then why
should the Japanese find fault if Cali
fornia enacts law prohibiting aliens
from owning land in that state?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

1t requires money, brains and
muscle to get good roads. Money
intelligently and honestly expended
in road-improvement is money well
invested.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

1t is barely possible that there are
a few honest, Intelligent and patri-
otto men in this state who are not
affiliated with the Minnesota FEEDER
alton of Commercial clubs.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

"Clapp processes to be strong
advocate of woman suffrage says
an exchange. ''Professes'' is in this
instance we'll used. Tell us of some.
thing that he has refused to advocate
wherein he saw vote, directly OF
Indirectly, in the distance.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

June II is Good Roads day. Plan
to better a piece of road in your own
neighborhood on that day. Give a
days labor on the roads June IT, If
you cannot work yourself hire a
substitute.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-22

Minneapolis detectives have again
reported that they can find no gam
bling dens in the city. This does not
of course mean that there are none.
To overlook a small place like the
syndicate' would be eXcusable
under the circumstances.