The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-14
FAIRFIELD

ST VALENTINE COMES IN
 ON SNOW SHOES.
 This is St Valentines Day. Maybe the day has brought you a valentine caricaturing you in some manner not exactly pleasing to you If so, it probably was sent you as an innocent reminder of the day by some child. You should take the matter hunaorous- ly and bear in mind that you were once young and found the same sort of pleasure in the comic valentine. Perhaps you have received a valentine of rich design and pleasant verse or two If this be the case, receive it in the same vein as it was sent by the donor and know that your friends are thinking kindly of you. The short sketch here appended should be of interest to our readers. recalling to minds as it does, the suitability of St. Valentine;s
 St Valentine day is celebrated on the 14th of February, usually by the sending of valentines or other gifts. The old idea was that the birds began to mate on that day : hence the prac- tice of young people choosing their valentines on that day by sending nature. generally amonymousIy The early form of the valentine was a ridiculous eo1ored caricature of a niale or female figure. with a few bur- lesQues verses below. More recently. the print is of an artistic or sentiment tai Kirkland even extends to the form of a book sSt. Valentine was a Bish-s opz of Rome during the third century. He was of a most aniaaDIe nature and possessed remarkable gifts of eio- quence and was so very successful in converting stfe pagan Romans 4to Christianity that he incurred the dis-s pleasure of the emperor and was. mar tyred by his order Feb IA, ,s,A- D. 2zO: Whensthes sa int came to be placed in the@ calendar his name was given to the day of his. deatlss
 NEW SIGNAL SYSTEM,
 Before the present signal system as-ina ugurated ons~the= New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad the wiring in use at that time was not has been established the vast network of wiring required in it's operation has bothered the electrical department of the road to find room for Installing the same A large gang of men is nov at work in the neighborhood~ of the Io- Of the aold system The new signal l system, of course, is a more modern and 11p-to-date one than the old meth cd of tower manipulation. While 1t | was not thought that the present sig nal system was without faults, still 1
 
 brought has completely reyolutionized 1 the controlling of trains. Under the | old method all signals and train | switching was controlled through the tower men, each town reduiring tow CT witH three men. working in three shifts Hinder the new system this | has all been changed, seliminating the | towers and men, the signals being con | tfe1ied automatically EFrorn ssskamfprds | by a manual switch station controlling I all signals east as far as Burr road | signal station. tAnytl1in g going wrong l with the signals in each block will inn | nediatefy show danger, bringing all | trains to stop within the block until | the reasons for danger signals are | learneds As an instance, several trains | weres brought to. a stop recently be- tween Fairfield station and Burr road l Some minor defect was found. which required men from the electrical de- par rtnuens in agdrwallz to make such re- pairs as were necessary before Q clear headvays could be givensto trains The sw- system has not been in use long | enough to have the 'tJkinks'' taken ous | of the wires. etc., but a little more time and use will show an Improvements 1 over the old tower manipulation of the l signal system l