The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-16
Knockout Brown Down.
 For The Long Count.
Husky Boxer Throws Up the Sponge and Will Be Led
 To the Altar.
6special to me BaI1ner.)

Straaford, March 16-It was a happy bunch of boxers who overfIowed the lawns and shores about Capt John Bonds training quarters yesterday. They're a busy bunch too and they drop out one by one to win g ha&tle1 and return to prepare for a.nother- And there never was such an aggrega- ton Of winners at Bonds quarters as as located there now K O. Brown Is an old frequenter and is about the best known of all of them By the way, K O. Is about to commit matx1-i mony and his comrades sre unani- naous in thezr endorsement Of his sadgn1ent- Bobby Reynolds Of Penn gylvanza, Otto Kohler of Cleveland, Jimmy Coffey. Battling Honz, Johnny Towards and half a dozen others Baftlfng Levinsky returned today with another scalp at his belt that of Tim 0Nell whom he bested st the Ma tiona1 Athletic club Saturday night Kohzer meets Jirnn1ny Duffy at Ak ron, Ohio, Tuesday night I<s o. meets Rafry CaI1akaan in Brooklyn Saturday night. On the same night Bobby Key nofds. will face Johnny Dundee at. E5ttskurxh and it will be some fight Jack Johnson will be here on Wed nesdny.z Coffey is billed to swap wal lopn with Kid Kansas at Syraczzse- And this does not include the whole bunch for more celebrities are expect ed every day.
 caDt Jcaan is about the sorest man zn Strat6ord- Hs asks and with good reason why his place Is selected as q target for the state police He has Rived in the town for 30 years and has done everything possible for the pub He veal He has favored and helped every public irnprogernent that has come to the town from the time when zfse first trolley rails wore leid until the present. HIS dock has been at Ehe Haspoeal of everyone free of charge and ft has cost him a usaE little sum fo build and maintain this institution- Just why the s8ate police wanted the sznaU stock of 11cuors which he had In the cellar is not clear to him His license hung on the wall and the place was closed Capt- John proposes to light what he calls uuwarranted per sseut1on to the end He was not caught doing business and the officers oper ated only under g search warrant
 The work Of removing tho debris from the hre at akeaeess coal yard last Sunday night has been begun Capt BedeH has put a new roof on his house and Mr. 9FAkelee has began clearing away the bricks and burned ffmbers which are streWn about the place Mr. Wake1ee lost every hing in the building, as we'll as the stIl1c- 4ure itself. It represented his savings as he went along and was fully paid for Thfs makes it necez ary for him to start again and he proposes to re- build as soon as possible He has not figured ouf. his total Joss but it will be enough to startle most any busi- ness man The burned building cost nbout S1z,000 The combined house hold enects Of himself and his father ir-1aw, MT Gorham. will foot about s2,eo0 There was lumber and other stock in the building which will add another thousand or more to the loss. 1t was probab1y the most expensive Ire the town has had within the memory Of any living inhabitant.
 Every spring for the last five years an old black tabs1de has reared a brood of kittens in the hollow of an old pear tree in the yard at the home of Mrs. " H. B1amey on Main street. This E year the brood is missing because Tab bic is dead The old tree is more than one hundred years old and is q land mark In the vicinity About Is feet above the ground the limbs part ieav- Ing a large and econvendent hollow which Tabbie selected as her nursery every year When her brood reached che proper age the anxious mother piloted them to the ground Some have found homes in neignborfng resi- dencea Others found their fate after xhe fashion of uunbe r1sss felines Hhrough the gunny sack and the cold bath
 RaiIroad Dstectaye o'Brien arrested three boyB Saturday night and turned them over to Constable F, J. Palmer who locked them up on charge o1 trespasszng on railroad property. The boys have been camping near the west end car barns and their arrest fol lowed many complaints from shippers and citizens
 The Epworth League of the M- E. church will celebrate St Patrick's day by a social to be held in the lecture room of the church on Tuesday night The affair will present many features to revive the memory of the patroI Eaint of the Emerald Isle.
 The hint of spring yesterday whict was the drst of the year brought ou' enc boaxmen and there was genera. pwdsaa Of paint bruslaes all along tht shore. Dad Barber passed the dal preparing 'sEvange1ine. or the tsdou ble winged pollywog for her dip ir Ehe salt sea He was ably assisted aba Capt Tom Lal1y- A few others in cludiux Capt Bill Futile happened along to offer advice Capt. Beard man of the Easie is putting an exten pfon on the house of the yacht Georg, Fryer has his boats ready to launch Others who have not watched tn, weather so close got around late il the day. Boatmen are looking fo breakup at oace for flat fish have ar rived ana are biting good and strong This means that spring is at hand
 ssEhe11ers'' are preparing for bus
 season and the work of storing tn ratch will be resumed on Knells' islam immediately The severe wfnte vvatfaer has retarded the she11ing sea son but the boats are being prepare' for the work.
 Dead crows are found among tn
 notsam and Jetsam along the shor
 and those who believed that thes
 scavenzers never died but passed in tact to the Nights P1utonian shore
 are wondering whether the birds die
 of disease or starvation So few peo
 pIe have ever seen a. dead crow tha