The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-30
Bedding Citizens to Testify : About Value of Pleasant
 Valley Property
Movement Launched to Pro- vide Preventive Measures Against Starting of Wood land Fires From Loconao- tive Sparks State Wide In Scope.
1snecia1 to the Farmer.1

pav for the stephen Sanford property in Pleasant Valley and the sum the owners are willing to take, the onereo
 price being SIC, 900 and the asking
 1,7-ice 300 O0o. Hence a. condemn ation l suit on the part of the water company l and the appointment by the superior
 court Of commissioners to arbitrate rne
 matter. Either party to the controversy may appeal from the comm1ssion's fawfrd and in that event the final de- ] cisi1n will rest with the court The 1 comrni ssioners are. Attorney John w.
 Banks and George w. Finn Of Br1dge- I port and Francis Greene or New Ca
 naan. They will give a hearing to | the parties in interest soon, perhaps on Friday or Saturday of this week.
 The water company will call several
 residents to give an opinion as to lthe value of the property, tentative list of these with esses comprising the names of Henry S. Osborn, M. Joseph Sullivan, J. B. Sanford, Marcus H. Burr and R. A. Lyon. Of the four water power sites included in the property involved the company has already bought for $250 the one owned ] by the estate of the late Henry San ford.
 A conference of fire wardens and oth-' CT officials to consider plans for se- curing better protection against forest fires by prev ventive and other methods was held last Friday at the store of y. |. J meeting was intended to represent the territory adjacent to the Norwalk and Danbury railroad and did so in fact, the>attendance including the fire ward Fidgeheld, Wilton, Bethel, Branch vile and Cannon. There were also present Walter C.. Fil1ey, state fire warden, two representatives of the railroad and the denonstrator of pump specially designed for use in 4z~-l-4 e1 T1ea@ ion where the conference took place has suffered considerably from such fires. nearly all of them started by Iocono- tive sparks, and the protection cam paign thus begun will be extended to .au parts or the state contiguous to railroads The outcome of the de- Alterations on Friday was the adop- ton of resolution providing that at least once a year the land for 3. dis tance of 150 feet on each side of the tracks be cleared of brush and other fwaste eombustible material the work to be done through the joint agency of the railroad section gangs and the local fire wardens. This resolution will be forwarded to the Consolidated road for endorsement of it's provis- ions. The two railroad men present said that such endorsement would doubtless be given as field fires were costly to the railroads as well as the owners of private property. In the discussion it was suggested that exe- cution of the clean up system might encounter obstacles from property owners who would object to trespass on their land even for so excellent an object. Instances were cited where such resistance had actually been met, the owners being evidently willing to have such fires so as to obtain dam ages. To meet future contingencies of that sort Warden Fflley said he would try to have the next legislature enact a statute covering the case The two pumps showed by the visiting agent worked so well in the test given that they were promptly purchased by West Bedding citizens at a-c cost of about $15
 While the conference was going on a woodland blaze started in the Hope well district in the extreme lower the main highway. An appeal for help was phoned to Fire Warden Warner of this town who responded in a neighbor1y spirit by sending to the scene Deputy Herman Smith and a force Of half dozen men experienced in field fire fighting. With the help of local volunteers, who had plenty of willingness but little skill in such work, the fire was got under control after it had run through about twenty acres of woodland belonging O Chas. Beck. A considerable tract belonging to Marion Williams was also burned over. The Iatter's chief loss is from the destruction of ten cords, of hrewood.
 William Gorham and family have moved from the Williams place zat Sunset Hill to the building on the Cor ham homestead property recently con yerted into a dwelling. Good progress Is being made with the house which M B. Burr is building for Robert dence and Fine Tree Corner Herr Schoch's bungalow near the Five Points is completed except for some interior finish work. The house which Moses Baker has been building in the Pleasant Valley section for cupancy. VIII Couch is slowly put ting together for himself a ha.bftation at the Center to replace the one burn ed two or three years ago.
 Mrs. Mary Scribner died at the Dan bury hospital on Thursday of last week and was buried on Monday in the San fordtoWn cemetery. She had been long sufferer from kidney trouble, but her death was due to erysipeIas which developed after she went to the hospital Her age was about 75 and few residents were better known. She was four times married and is sur v1ved by one child, Levi Gilbert, a re- spected resident of New FaiTfield
 The annual meeting of the Bedding Tree Conservation Association was to have been held Tuesday. but owing to the small attendance was postpon- ca to Saturday afternoon. The two. machines owned by the association
 have nearly finished the orders for
 the seasons first spraying which is against the scale. The orders were
 rather less than those of last year for the reason that several orchard own, CTS believe that former treatments
 nave freed their trees from the pest.
 The city people are beginning to oc-
 cupy their summer homes here this
 weeks arrivals comprising the Hegge-
 mans, Ieets and the M oses Waugh
 and Blanchard. Miss Jeanette Glider
 who was in town last Saturday is ur-s certain to whether she will occupy
 her cottage as she contemplates 8 trip to California.