The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-17
EGBERT [. BENNETT SOCCUMBS TO. LONG
 SIEGE OF ILLNESS
Was One of First to Advo- cate Annexation of East
 Stratford.

After a long and vain fight against 9 chronic. ai1nnent, Egbert l.. Bennett passed to death yesterday at his home, 155 French street. He was TO years of year. A man of brilliant attainnents and unusually magnetic personality, he faced and fought the long battle to regain health with the quiet courage and determination that had marked his conduct, through life. He belonged to the school of citizens who believed that it was often necessary and part of his citizenship to assume personal discomfort in performing some act for the public good and his influence and activity was always Identified with any movement which he believed was for the advancement of the commun- ity.
 MT. Bennett was born in New Jersey but came to- live in Central avenue; East End, when that section was the borough of West Stratford For many years he was painting contractor carrying on his own business When the proposition was made for the an nezation of the borough of West Strat-s fdrd to Bridgeport, he favored the pro- ject and it was largely through his advocacy that the act was passed by which that great section became part of Bridgeport.
 Later MT. Bennett removed with his family to the old mansion which stood TOT years at what was then the head of William street. MT. Bennett then gave up the painting business to ac- icept the superintendency of the Com pressed Paper Box Co., position he held for many years Prior to his last illness he was employed at the Singer Mfg. Co.
 MT. Bennett was for years one of the styactive workers and advocates l of prohibition of the sale of liquor. He was one of the most prominent members of old Nonpareil lod-e, l.. o. G. T. He was chief temp1ar several times and organized and drilled the first uniformed degree team which any lodge of the order had. The. marches and evo1utions which he ar ranged are now in use in all lodges of thir order wherever the ceremony of the initiat tionis carried out in the full ritualistic form.
 MT. Bennett was also an amateur actor and elocutionist of ability He l organized amateur stheatricals in the East End for the benefit of the socie-
 ties with which he was connected and | frequently gave his services in this respect at entertainments and benefits I given by societies of which he was not a member. At these affairs he always gave his services gratis. These per- I forfnances he made for. love of the work rather than for gain.
 MT. Bennett was veteran of the ICivH war although not a member of l the Grand Army He was a mem Der of Brooklyn regiment at the out break of the war and was severely
 wounded twice at the first battle of Bull. Run. He was member of Oron- Ioque lodge, 10. o. F., of Stratford I and of Nutmeg encampInent, To- O. I F., of this. city He was an attendant lat Trinity M E. church. He had hosts of friends in all parts of the city who
 will be sincerely grieved to learn of his death
 Besides his widow he is survived by I a son, Capt. Arthur c. Bennett and a daughter, Mrs. Louis GouIden, of siStamford niInaber of szrandchiIdren I held at 2:30 tomorrow at Trinity M P. church The burial will be in Lake view cemetery.
 MT. Bennett was the father of the late Louis Bennett, newsdealer and widely known newspaper man who died several years ago.
 All city officials of Nashville, Tenn.
 from the mayor down, suffered a 25
 per cent. cutsin salary. A municipal
 loan of s167.000 for current expenses 5 was authorized.
 q An order for 4.oeo tons of. 1 1-2-
 inch rounds for the rnanufacture ot rifle barrels was awarded to the Penn syfvania Steel Co, 7by the sWesting-
 house Electric & Manufacturing Go D. R. Brable, 45, a 1eper who escaped
 rom the detention hospital at Wash Ilngton. is being held in the Pittsburgh
 Municipal hospital
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