The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-29
BEDDING GENEROUS
 TO HOSPITAL FUND
Total of Ifs Contribution VIII
 Reach About S400
How West siders Propose to Lengthen and Widen State Road Route from Bridgeport to Danbtny via Bedding.

hDad ROIlte from Bridgeport
 to DaI1btry via Bedding. E , Bedding. Jan. 29--In the talk which Selectnan Barnes had a few days ago with Highway Commissioner Bennett at Hartford the latter made known ], the prograIa for future State road construction as 1aid out by. the west siders under the guidance, presuuIab1y, of Secretarg Plump of the Protective League. |, The plan calls, first, for the building or the road from Gsorgetown to Idbrary Corner; second, for com pleting the Little York road from the same corner to Bedding Station. and third for the extension Of the i'm proven ent to the road leading from Library Corner to the Ridge. It is any other project is taken up. The;
 nagnitude of the scheme rather stag gered Mir. Barnes who had started to. enter a plea in behalf of quick action. for the Putnam. Park road which car rdes as much travel as any thorough fare in town and needs straigiten tening and widening as we'll as resurfacing. He called Mir Hennett.s attention to. the further fact that the Park road had a. prior claim because it was part Of the main through route from Bridgeport to sDanbury and formed 
 built To defer its reconstruction for fifteen or, twenty years longer seemed: to MT. Barnes most unwise departure from the policy adopted by ex-Com-2
 missioner Macdonald. In reply MT. Bennett pointed out that a. Bridgeport Danbury line of i'm proved road would be provided as soon as the Ridge and Center was connected, the traveller turning west at the Ridge and pro ceeding to Danbury by way of the. Center and hometown. tBut." rejoin- ed Mr. Barnes, ..ssthat route is two.
 miles longer than .tI1e other and few. would care to use it because of the two long and steep hills between the Ridge and the Center The force of this objection was acknowledged. by Mir Bennett who confessed that he did not know very well the topo- grapf1y of the country, that important feature not being shown by the de- partment maps. MT. Barnes is strong .ly in hopes of securing favorable ae- .tion on. the Park road PEeject two years hence despite the present ad- verse prospects. As the. case now stands MT. Bennett is committed to the program. of the west siders only to the extent of spending the existing appropriation on the Georgetown road. Should he eventually decide to ap-i prove the entire program there would arise a strong opposition to the voting by the town of further appropriation. Besides there is the chance that Mir. Bennett may serve only his present tefm and that his successor will re- ject such of the program as had not been carried out.
 Unexpectedly liberal and general have been the local responses to the appeals. from the :canvassers acting in behalf of the Danb1ry Hospital. In almost every instance a contribution was forthcoming and often the amount was larger than had been. the appointments of captainTin- chief of the town forces and Mrs. John H. Jen= nings of West Bedding was made an additional locality captain. Among the active helpers have been $. H. Osborn and Harry Lounsbury So far collections in the Ridge section are about $15O and when all the returns have been received Redding's total will probably not be far from $400. It is believed that the campaign will yield altogether considerably more than the $4O,OO0 sought for.
 Sessions of the Board of Relief be- gin on Monday next and the prospects are that more than the usual number Of applicants will appear to ask re- auctions from the valuations fixed by the assessors. This would be a natural consequence of the unusually large number of increases which mainly ap- ply to building located in the Ridge section.
 The response by two Of the ci1ernil-s cal engines of the Ridge fire depart ment to the alarm sent out for the recent fire at the Center has started the idea of providing one or more like machines to be stationed in that To- ca1ity. Whether this shall be done is a matter for the Center people to de- term1ne The machines could do noth-- ing towards subduing the Sanford fire, but had there been a strong wind the value of the service they were capable of rendering in the saving of nearby. building was very apparent. Judge Sanford has not yet decided about re- building. sfz :.
 The many Bedding friends of At torney and Mrs. s. c. Shaw have heard with sympathetic regret of the serious illness that has befa1len two of their children at their Bridgeport home. Frederick, the youngest boy, was a victim of pneumonia and although the crisis of the disease has passed his condition is still preca.rious. Kempton, the older boy, was stricken with measles in severe form and is not out of danger, although the latest reports regarding him were favorable.
 Mrs. Frances Gary, who for nearly six years past had her home with Miss J. H. Sanford on the Ridge, died last week and was buried in the Ridge cemetery She was English wo- man and was a confirmed invalid when she came to Bedding.
 Con O'Keefe is nursing a swollen and discolored leg which was put out of commission a few days ago by a vicious kick from his promising colt Ordinarily Mrs. O'Keefe gave the mother horse her daily ration of oats and at the same time dispensed wee portion to the youngster. When it fell to the lot of MT. O'Keefe to do tEds particular chore he neglected co1tiel