The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-31
GYPSY BANDS WILL
 RECEIVE WARM WELCOME
 IN FAIRFIELD IN FUTURE
Sheriff E1wood Says He Will Arrest
 Next Band That Camps in Town.
tBy Our Special Correspondent

1d, q band of gypsies camp in this town they will not be ordered to move along but the whole crowd will be arrested" said Sheriff H. B. Elwood yesterday. Tuesday evening for the eleventh time this year the sheriff or dered a band of gypsies to pack up their belongings and get out of town. That evening the sheriff was at his home when he received a complaint that the gypsies had encanped along the roadside in Greenfield Hill. He was asked to order them off the prop erty. Going to the location the sheriff found a large band encamped for the evening. He informed them that they were upon private property and ordered them to hitch up their horses and proceed on their way The leader of the band remonstrated and told the sheriff that his followers were peaceful and were not harming anyone. The sheriff gave them just ten minutes to break camp and calmly sat upon the fence counting off the minutes. The horses were under harness and underway before the ten minutes had elapsed.
 Sheriff ElWood is sincere in his tn- tention of arresing the next band that camps in town. In the past their ac-i tions have been severe enough to war rant arrest. Their members go from door to door begging food, which gen orally is never refused. People give because they seem afraid to do other wise. One woman in Southport a few weeks ago refused food to a Gypsy who threatened that he would tie her feet so hard that she would never walk again. She then gave the man food. These people commit enough offenses to hail them before any court. They can be arrested for camping on the roadside, for pitching their camp in private grounds, for fortune tell ing and for begging. It has been the custom for sheriffs and constables to
 move them along without making any arrests.
 Mike Swinziski and Stanley Rygok were before Justice of the Peace Ba- con Wakeman in the town court yes teday fo assaulting Matin Singer. The three are residents of Fairfield. They
 met in Fairfield Place Sunday evening and engaged in an argument. In the nix-up, Mike and Stanley pitched in to Martin. At least it appeared that way for the latter was very much the worse for the encounter, His head when he appeared in court yesterday was swathed in bandages. Singer de- clared that the other two started the fight, while Martin and Stanley prac- t1cally admitted as much but said that Singer invited it as he called them vile names. The court dismissed the | case against Rygok but held Swim ztslzi for further hearing tomorrow morning.
 The lawn party of the parishione-s ] of St. Thomas church opened last ev- /. ening, all evening long many people visiting the gaily decorated lawns l about the church and spending freely. The many booths, such as ice cream, | candy, fancy articles, etc., were pret- tiIy arranged and were freely patron | ized. All evening long dancing was ] oVoi ivo hoJI Tn | lawn party will be brought to close l this evening.
 | The 2Oth annual fair of the Fair | field firemen will be opened to-1nor- l row night and will continue until the year will be made all the more aus picious by a parade through the main | streets of the town of the fFemen with 1 their apparatus. The Southport fire | men with their steamer will also form part of the procession. A drum corps
 from Bridgeport will furnish the in-
 spiration for the parade. The pa l rade will move promptly at o'clock.
 The members of the Girls Club will ] complete their two weeks stay at the 1 Pastfme cottage at the beach this ev- | ening. The girls all had a gay time l and only regret that it ended so soon. | Fairfield was no exception to other | towns in the matter of the torrid con | ditions for the past few days In fact | some one says it is just as hot in
 Fairfield as it is in summer.
 Now that the men under Selcctrnan
 E1wood have gone through the $40O | which was appropriated for the con 1 tinuation of the shore road, the men have switched their operations to the | repairing of the old beach road. Many l ruts and gulIies have formed within | F71+ Inc
 filled in with gravel and crushed stone | and will be Ieveled.
 | Mrs. James T. Roche has returned to her home in Fairfield after being the guest of Mrs. Nathaniel w. Bish- l CD of Bridgeport at her summer home l in Watch Hill, R. I.
 1 The new home of the Fairfield chemical engine will be modern in at 1 least one respect, in that a repair pit I will be constructed under the machine e so that the mechanician can make re- pairs to the apparatus whenever nec- l essary.
 | Rumors are current that several representative citizen of the town have approached officials of the Connecti-
 cut Co.,, in an endeavor to induce that
 company to secure a charter to run
 their cars to Fairfield beach. Sew
 era1 years ago an effort was made to
 have the company secure a charter for Center street but the residents in that thoroughfare made such strenu-
 ous objection that the project was
 dropped. Now it is understood Ma
 rine avenue is favored. The only ob-
 lection raised against this street IS
 that the trolley cars will have to pass the new school house and that il
 would be dangerous to the children
 Those who favor cars in that stree, , are inclined to believe that the dan ger to children would not be any greater than it has been in the past
 at the Sherman school and that also
 the school is closed for most of the
 time when the road would be exten- : sively used. There is no doubt but
 that the beach would be much more popular and that it would be built uE to a greater extent, with consequent , revenue to the town, if there were