The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-19
CROWDS EXPECTED TO
STORM SPECIAL MEETING
AT WESTPORT TONIGHT
Iron-workers Narrow Escape
From Death At Railroad
j. Bridge Tower at Sauga-
tuck.
tBy Our Special Correspondent

sWestport, Sept. 19-That Daniel
Conner of -Compo beach is alive today
to tell the story of his fall yesterday
morning from the 220 foot tower on
the east bank of the Saugatuck river
seems almost miraculous. Conner a
structural worker at work upon a
platform $50 feet up the tower when
he was struck a g1ancing blow upon
the side of the head by a heavy ham
mer falling from platform ABOVE.
He was stunned and Keeling topped
off the platform and was hurled
through space catching in a joist of
the structural work about fifty feet
below and over 100 feet from the
railroad tracks Apparently lifeless
he hung suspended in this position
out upon the steel Orders freed him
from his perilous position. Carefully
he was carried to the tracks below
and conveyed in the superintendent
auto to the home of Dr. Frank Nc
Laury. The physician could only find
a superficial wound on the side OF the
head where the falling hammer had
struck him. In falling upon the joist
and becoming wedged into these steel
Orders the wind was knocked from
Connor's body. In the possibility that
internal injuries might develop he
was placed under the PHYSICIANS care
at his home at Conpo beach.
Come early to get your seat at the
special town meeting this evening. So
great is the demand that the select
men are thinking of having reserv-
ed seats taking this method to raise
funds to start a subscription for new
bridge. AS the call for the meeting
is expressly for the purpose of
what repairs shall be made to the
approach to the, bridge and for no
other reason the gathering can decide
oI@ f--i7 ut RI
pair. There is every evidence that
there will be a. great flow of oratory.
The citizens will be told that a. little
repairing will fix the bridge up for a
few years or until 1915 when the
next legislature will meet and will
probably allow the town to issue
bonds for q, new bridge, and also it is
hoped aid in the appropriation of
funds from the state treasury. Some
say it is this yearning for state help
that has brought about the delay in
constructing q. new bridge.
The water tank which has long
stood at Riverside avenue and State
street is being removed to a position
near the Vigilant Engine Co. house.
This is somewhat of an out of the
way position but it has been made
necessary because of the improve
ments made to the state highway. 1t
is stated that one of the reasons for
the removal was that its presence in
the old location would endanger skid
ding automobiles. It is understood
that the new. pavement when wet or
when covered with ice is very slippery
and that sRidding is almost tmpossi-
BILE.
-Westport holds a reputation for
longevity of life judging from the
many old people residing within its
precincts and also by the several who
have passed away this past summer
after living to a very old age. Dur
ing the month of July two we'll known
residents succumbed after living sew
eraI years beyond the nineties. Dur
ing August according to the deaths
recorded in the town clerks office
several others who have enjoyed long
life one 81 years and three others
beyond the four score mark passed
away. The statistics for the month
are Raphael Marx of Bridgeport, 50,
p1eurisy; BENJAMIN o. Merritt, 81, en-
docarditis; Helen A. Richmond, wild
ow of A. G. Raymond, 6S, uraemia;
William Henry ParseL, 85, cerebral
hemorrhage; William A. Potwin, 55,
Amherst, Mass, suicide by drowning;
John SchuIdt, AZ, of Meriden; Emma
Price, widow of George Price, 81, ne