The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-15
Latter Given Holiday to Hustlh Among Auto Drivers For
 Votes For Bends.
HIS FRIENDS WILL
 RESENT HIS DIsCHARGE
Paine Defied All Speed Lag But Could Not Make sAIaChine Get Over Territory Expec4ed.
 He Worked Hard to I'm prove the Thing.

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 The big Hvaas automobile sprt1sasls-
 with which Director of Public vve1srv
 Jacob A. Courtade proposed to eprfnz-le
 all the macadam streets in Brtdgeport
 is not equal to the task and Eecaarns he 9coss,d not drive the c1rnabse5ri vehicle around the city at the aossd Of racing car, Frank B. Fadne who
 has been driving it was aunarnari3g discharged yesterday aftsrnoou.
 That Paine received what is, caIIad in the parlance of the street ssa rsvr deaT, is freely admitted by there vVIlc. are cognizant of conditions Earr, Breen, New York chaufceqzr. who came to Bridgeport four weeks ar- and has been employed at the Blue Ribbon garage will succeed Paine. Complaints that the streets were nat being gprinkled at all, have fairIv ds- luEed the directors office oE late. mo very few dry and pleasant days dur l ing the pmst four weeks hove shown that the @aatcmoElle aprinAIer win not do what its sponsors expected of it The Fdvaas AItQ-eprinkler vaa
 bought on March 7 through the board 1 of contract and supply. It cost S4. .z50. Director Courtade at that time freely
 predicted that the car would be aBis to get around the macadam streets or the city in jig time. As matter of fact Mir. Paine has frequently spent
 an entire day going over the streets of the West End and then has not been able to cover them all. In an endeavor to do what was re- quired of him MT. Paine has been
 driving the as1to-sprinkler from 53 to 5 8 miles per day. Recently MT CulLs- tade sent him order to reduce Elle
 speed. MT. Paine demurrsd sayinr that he could not cover the teEEahdrv expected of him if he was forced tO
 drive slower
 4--s MT. Paine There are many com plaints now"
 .1Let them complain" MT. C0urtsza is alleged to have replied We cont
 care what they say You take ycur
 orders from me.
 speed at which he drove the Aprinlrlur so that he covered but 2s or go xxl3eu per day. Yesterday afternoon 1EE Courfade approached him at tho BEnr Ribbon garage where the auto-EpriEzE- l Ter fs kept and told him that his ser- vices would be no longer required MT. Paine claims that AEr- Cou4- tade would give him no reason Gur discharging him. Paine is considero1 one of the best chau1feqzrB in the
 state. He went to work on the auto sprinkler on, April l.
 +In the six weeks that Iflrsrys' bsen doing this business MT. Courtaas hnG never inspected my work or dutiu1Gt- ed whether or not it was satisfactory said MT Paine to a Farmer reportel today. 'T knew the sprinkler vassnot doing the work required of it ana told MT. Courtade so. We arc nut0- mixing the streets. not spEfnlz1iaE them. wanted him to allow me to bore larger holes i'm the gprdni13srsaao that we could get more water on me streets, but he refused made e. great many changes on the auto- sprinkler so that we could get moro
 service out of it but I get no thau1u
 for that don't know now why was let out
 Tn view of his loyalty to the Re publican party MT. Paine thinks he was shabbily treated. Sometime ago Mayor Wilson addressed sthe Chauf- feurs club urging the members to vote for the bonding measures and telling them that they could get good
 streets only by bonding for perma nent pavement. Just before the first vote was taken on the bonding meas
 ures Paine got another man to work
 sn his place and spent a day and halt
 going among chauffeurs of his ac- quaintance drumming up votes for the
 bonds. He thinks his discharge is a poor return for his work for the party
 measures.
 Mir. Courtade could not be found to-
 day to get his version of the affair
 but it is pretty generally accepted about the city hall and by the fore
 men of the street gangs that the auto sprinkler cannot do the work expect ed of it and that at least one and possibly two more will be required l if the -sprinl1ling is to be con ! tinued.
 At present 1t is said that the only
 real sprink1ing .is done along the tracks of the Connecticut Go. by inc
 Burns Co. Today four ''squegeer
 sprinklers drawn by two horses each were sent, over the permanently rav-
 ed streets in the center of the city
 The "squegees'' followed each other
 at a distance of 10 feet apart.
 The strike of the Cunard Line elm
 ployes at Liverpool, which threaleueG fa interfere with the maiden --e.--