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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
SANDY HOOK PLANNING
FOR FIRE PROTECTION
Especial to The Farmer.)

Sandy Hooy, Jan. 11-About a
score of representative citizens of the
village met Monday in the barber
shop of jain o. Pitzschler, and took
the preliminary steps towards the for
nation of fire district. Committees
were named by the. chairman, John
o. Pitzschler, to confer with the Off
Gals Of the Newtown Water Co. and
ascertain the. approximate cost Of 80
MIGRANTS to cover the main part of
the village under a survey made sew
eral years ago, ana another commit7
tee was named from the floor to draft
a. bill covering the principal
streets and residential and bus
mess sections of the village the
residents OF which are known to
favor protection against fire losses.
These committees, consisting Of the
following we'll known taxpayers
were directed to proceed i'm
rpediately upon the work assigned to
each committee and report at an ad-
journed meeting to be held Friday
evening at the same place at s p. M:
M A. Corbett Of Corbett & Grove; A M
Briscoe of Briscoe & Son; E. w. Troy
of the Handy Hook Hotel; Austin E..
i
contractor and builder; Deputy
Sheriff M. D. Beers; George F. Taylor
of Taylor, Curtis & Co., and T. J..
Corbett, acting with the general COM
mittee, were directed to proceed i'm
The discussion was earnest in tone,
and it is believed all the villagers will
back up the practical movement
towards what all know to be a no
cessity-an organized body polite to
look after proper fire protection for
the village.
Sandy Hook has had two very
serious visitations of fire in recent
lage upon both> occasions should con-
vey to all minds the Importance Of
this vital subject of water in the viii
lage which now seems in sight.
The reports Of the committees will
cover all the essentials for intelligent
action by the citizens and will be
open to amendment or alterations as
seems fit by the electorate, before the
bill is presented to the General AS
sembly for it's authorization which
must be done before Jan. 20, the last
day for new business. The Newtown
Water Co. officials are disposed to
help the good work along, irrespective
of their prospects with private con-
through the mains, and this feature
of their business will not be any part
of the powers or duties Of the Sandy
Hook Fire district, which will have
charge of fire protection only.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
GLASS IN THE EARLY AGES.
t Was Always Colored and Opaque, a.
q Rule, Until the Year 600 B. G..


q Rule, Until the Year 600 3. c.
Somewhere in the neighborhood OF
$500 years before the Christian era
are found records of the existence Of
glass, the earliest in history. Some
well preserved specimens have quite
recently been discovered in the sepul-
chers of the period of $500 B. C. The
glass of Egypt was generally opaque,
rarely transparent, always colored and
used for the making OF articles Of
adornment, such as beds, vases Of
blue glass with finely chased wavy
lines in white, light blue, yellow, black
and red
1t was not until nearly 1900 years
later-or 600 B. c., to be exact-that
transparent glass came into use for the
manufacture of bottles and goblets.
BY this time, however. Egyptian glass
had been extensively exported to
Greece and Italy, the furnaces of Alex
andria, under the Ptolemies, producing
glass vases of beauteous design.
To the Phoenieians have many au-
thorities awarded credit for the dis
covery attributed to the Egyptians,
aud it Is certain that Sidon, the CAPT.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
British Prisoners
Have Swimming Pool

Douglas, Isle Of Man, Jan. IL
There has been been sarcastic COM
ment in the British newspapers about
the huge swimming pool and luxur-
iously equipped gymnasium which the
government provides FOR it's war pris-
oners at the Cunningham Camp. The
pool is about hundred feet long and
is housed in an ornate building Of
gaudy stucco, and the gymnasium is
as large and as well equipped as that
at Yale University.
Cunningham Camp, before i. was
taken over for prisoners was a sum-
mer school and recreation camp for
English schoolboys. The swimming
pool and gymnasium were retained,
and have, naturally proved popular
features with the prisoners. With a
few exceptions, every man in the
camp visits the swimming pool at
least once week. The average daily
attendance at the gymnasium is well
over q thousand.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
Big Falling Off In
French Theatre Funds


Paris, Jan. 11-All the places of
amusement in Paris took in 17,000,-
600 francs less in 1915 than in 1914
and about 100000 francs less than
in 1913 The legitimate theatres took
in about 100000 francs, which was
only 100000 francs more than the
moving picture shows and only a
quarter of the receipts of 1913.
The situation of the moving picture
houses as compared with theatres Is
partly accounted for by the fact that
they were open throughout the year
but there is also a remarkable growth
In five years, including two and a
half years of war, they have doubled
their receipts Notwithstanding the
fact that the best critics have per-
sistently maintained that their pro-
grams were becoming more mediocre
every month.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11

Instead of nasty, harsh pills, salts,
castor oil or dangerous calomel, why
don't you keep Cascarets handy in
your home? Cascarets act on the
liver and thirty feet of bowels so
gently you don't realize you have
taken a cathartic, but they act thor
oughly and can be depended upon
when a good liver and bowel cleansing
is necessary-they move the bile and
poison from theIbowels without grip
ing and -sweeten the stomach. You
eat one or two at night like candy and
you wake up feeling fine, the head
ache, biliousness, bad breath, coated
tongue, sour stomach, constipation, or
bad cold disappears. Mothers should
give cross, sick, feverish or bilious
children a whole Cascaret any time
they are harmless and safe for the
little folks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
CARRY PHONES
With Them IN
RAID ON TRENCH
British Commanders Could
Talk to London from Cap
tured German Dugout.

With the British Armies in France,
Jan. 11-Peace conversations and
peace notes. however much Of fur
ry they may cause in the capitals Of
the world, have no effect upon the
British armies. The work Of war
progresses, and one Of the first i'm
pressions the visitors gets on tour
behind the British lines in France is
the absolute permanence and thor
oughness of the British war machine.
There is no flimsy construction any
where. It is as if the English were
preparing to fight through countless
years to come if necessary.
While built primarily for war eff
ficiency, the telephone and telegraph
lines, the railways and the motor
highways the English have put into
France will be here when the war is
over as a permanent legacy. The war
railroads will in effect be an offest to
the so-called stfatgetic railways of
the Germans, and will enable France
to develop her northern country far
more rapidly than otherwise would
have been possible. lready the tele-
phone and telegraph lines are linked
up with the French official systems
of those facilities.
The telephone has played won
derful part in the war. When a Can
adam battalion made a daylight raid
on 400 yards of German trenches a
few days ago, each company COM
mander in the raid had telephone
with him as he went into action, the
signal men in charge unreeling the
wires as they pressed forward. The
instruments were connected with bat
talon headquarters back in a first
line English dug-out and there was
not moment during the offensive
that the contact was not complete.
Through the various telephone links
leading from battalion headquarters
to brigade headquarters. to division
headquarters, corps headquarters,
army headquarters, general head
quarters and thence across the Eng
lish Channel, it would have been pos
sible, if so desired, for the company
commanders in the thick of the ac-
tual hand to hand fighting to talk
direct from a German trench to the
War Office in London.
The trunk telephone lines erected
by the British along the main high
ways to the war represent the latest
Improvement off equipment. At some
points there are as many as thirty
wires on a single line Of poles, with
a second line of sixteen wires being
strung. From the peaceful, pastoral
scenes of non-inVaded France out to-
ward the battle lines the wires reach
in ever diminishing numbers until at
last only few STRAINS may be laid
along the ground-across that stretch
of mud and shell shattered desolation
the gains of some re-
cent push.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
JNE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
NEW GOODS.

Barnurn Beach has just received q
new supply Of fall and winter goods
which he will dispose Of at the lowest
terms Among which are the fol-
lowing articles: Superfne and coma
mon breadcloths of various colours,
scarlet. cinnamon, black and cassi-
mere do, blue, brown and bottle
green and slated color hombazettes,
white, black, blue, crimson, scarlet,
brown yellow and green fianrels, SUI
perfine and common dressed and IN
dressed calicoes, OF tie newest pat
terms, black and white and pink
srepes. silk and cotton handkerchiefs,
English and domestic shifting, and
white and brown linen.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11

tai Of Phoenicia, was at a very early
period famous for glassware made by
Artas and Irenawus from the sand
brought down from Mount Carmel
While specimens Of Egyptian and
Phoenician glass were found in Greece
in the time of Herodotus and Arts
tophanes, it was not until $50 B. G. that
it's manufacture in the form Of en-,
graved stones and canoes became com.
MON among the Hellenes, the sphere
of Archimedes, for example, being
made Of this substance e.
From decaying Rome the manufac-
ture of glass was transferred to Con-
stantinople, thence in the seventh CEN,
fury to Venice, which for many hun-;
dreds Of years was to remain the, CEN
ter of the industry, the Venetian COB
let's and drinking cups being exported
all over the world.-Exchange.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
sLE1GHING.

The snow yesterday and last eve
ming improved the sleighing little,
but the weather today has been too
cold to enjoy the sport with COM
fort. The gliding swiftly along over
the snowy surface, <and the hngling
of bells, is all very nice, when the
temperature is right, but when the
frost takes hold Hke>a vice and the
wind cuts like razor, then it is al
together otherwise.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.

We heard of several cases of scar
let fever and some of diphtheria in
and outside of the city. This is just
the weather for sudden attacks. of
such diseases, and heads of families
should be on their guard against
them. In such cases "a stitch in
time saves nine and an ounce of pre-
ventive is worth a. pound Of cure.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
FOR SALE.

A large two story dwelling house
and a. new barn, with two acres OF
land adjoining, situated at the east
end of Bridgeport bridge, and was
formerly occupied by Mr.. Moss K.
Botsford 1t is one of the pleasant-
est situations in the place. The sub
scriber has it in contemplation to
move next spring, and will sell the
above premises very low.
THOMAS WOODWARD.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
CONTINUE BRAHAM CASE

The case Of Samuel Praha,n, the
Fairfield avenue haberdasher who
was recently arrested charged with
receiving and buying stolen goods,
which were taken from the clothing
store Of Jacob Klein, East Main
street, by three Brooklyn vouths was
continued by Judge Frederic Bartlett
in the city court yesterday Until jan
uary II.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
Queer Old. Laws.

France in 1914 passed laws regulate,
ing the size of the cloak and robe, the
breadth of the trimming and the mum
Der Of suits that might be possessed by
each person; also the diet, including
the hour Of meals and the number or
dishea
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
REV. III. w, BENEDICT
CHAPLAIN OF HOUSE

Speaker Frank E. Healy of the
House of Representatives has ap-
pointed Rev. Howard w. Benedict of
the = Methodist Episcopal church Of
Bloomfield House chaplain. Mr.. Ben
edict is a native of South Norwalk
and received his education in Wes-
leyan and Yale, universities. He was
graduated from Yale in 1913. He, be-
came pastor of the Bloomfield church
last April.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
The Arabian Ford

doesn't need any accesso-
ries-but your American
Ford does
fThere are many little de-
vices that 60 to make the
Ford a much more enjoy
able car
1--WE have them, and all the
necessary supplies, from
spark plugs to tires
fAll accessories for all
makes of carve have a
complete line
fEverv auto needs the Stan
wood Safety Footplate-
$3.50, $500 and $500 per
set
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
WANTED.

BY the subscribers seven or eight
active and smart boys. fourteen or
fifteen years of age, as apprentices
in the Hating business. Said boys
must be we'll brought up, and of good
characters, to which liberal terms Will
be given.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
PUBLISHER DEAD

Brookline, Mass, Jan. 10-George
H. Proctor, 81, president Of the Glou-
cester Times Co., Of Gloucester, died
yesterday. He was formerly a vice.
president of the Massachusetts, Press
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
BATTERY b TO GIVE SOIREE.

We are informed that Battery Is, of
the Connecticut National Guard, will
give another soiree at Franklin hall,
on Wednesday evening of next week.
The soirees given by this company
have ever been Of the most pleasing
character,~and lovers Of the terpsi-
chOrean art will hail the announce
ment with pleasure. GOOdSeu &
Blish's band will furnish the music,
and a good time may be expected.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
STEEL BUSINESS SETS RECORD

New York, Jan. 10.-Unfilled orders
Of the United States Steel corporation
for the month ending Dec. 81 reached
11,547.286 tons, an increase of 4S3,744
over the previous month, again break
ing all records.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
XMAS GIFTS TO PLEASE EVERYBODY.


full of
Calendars
a shortD
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
WAYNE MacVEAGH DEAD.

Washington, Jan. 11-Wayne Mac
Veagh, attorney general in the cabinet
of President Garfield, died here to-
day.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
REGIMENTAL PROMOTIONS.

1t appears to be definitely settled
that Major Sheridan will be the, next
colonel of the Fourth regiment and
the lieutenant colonelcy will go to
Major Hendrie of Stamford. That
is, the major Of the First battalion
will be the coming colonel and the
major of the Second battalion will
follow in line of promotion to the
second in command. The contest will
be for the position of first and sec
ondt major Capt. White of Co. B
appears to be the leading candidate
to succeed Major Sheridan, alth ough
of Stamford are candidates.
Captain .Glennon of this city, who
is the senior captain, has announced
himself as candidate against the Nor
walk and Stamford captains but not
against Captain White.
Should the prize go to Captain
Glennon eventually, there will be reg
ular promotions in Company E, Lieut.
Hurley becoming captain; Second
Lieut.. Joy advancing to frst-lieuten-
ant and Sergt. Crowley succeeding
JOY. This, of course, is a POSSIBLE
ity, but the probability is that the
promotion will be in Company B.
The adjutants of the regiment do not
appear to figure in the discussion for
under the conditions Captain Master
SON should figure among the candi-
dates for promotion.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11

FUNERAL DESIGNS AND
BOUQUETS
JOHN RECK & SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
MARRIED.

In this city Jan. 10, by Rev. Sam
ue1 H Smith, Gurdon c. Wells and
Jennie A. Lockwood, all OF Bridge
port.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11

At meeting OF the stockholders Of
the Peouonnock National bank today
the following were chosen directors:
David Trubee, H. DeVer Warner, I. B.
Prindle, Joel Farist, Ebenezer Burr,
p w. Wren, T. W. Birdseye, w. A.
Grippin, G. Barnunn See1ev, J. A.
Foster and Austin D. Fletcher The
following officers were chosen: Pres
idert David Trubee: vice-president,
Fl. DeVer Warner; cashier, I. B. Prin-
dJo
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
Lyon & Grammar. Retail Division
Lyon & GrUmNlan. Retail DIVISION
AMERICAN HARDWARE
STORES

(IncOrpOrated)
FAIRFIELD AVE. AND MIDDLE ST.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-11-29
RODAYA LOWEST OF Castles
Those Who Survive Are to Be Found
Today In Randy, the OId-Time Cap
itaI Of Ceylon.

The old-time capital Of Ceylon Is a
city rich with the usual picturesque
ness of the East, and having two or
three unusual points about it as well.
In Handy you will find the Rodaya
caste, one of the few Buddhist castles
whose origin is matter of history.
Handy, too, contains the most sacred
object in the Orient, no less relic
than a tooth Of Buddha. These two
features are Kandys principal claims
to fame and interest.
It Is written that the Rodaya had
their origin in the sentence pronounced
by an old-time king, who charged that
they served his table with the flesh or
pigs instead Of the flesh Of deer. For
this crime he made them the lowest
Of all castles, and their lot has not
been happy one. There are perhaps
500 of them left today: they may be
seen daily around the outskirts OF
Randy. They are not allowed to live
in houses. but inha5it miserable lean
tos. They have no recourse to native
courts OF Justice. although under the
English law they are not Disseminated
against. They may not use bridge,
but have to swim all streams. They
must kneel when addressing the higher
castles. When the shadow of one OF
them falls upon food, the food cannot
be eaten.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-11-29
A Saurian Survival.

The dingonek, says j. A. Jordan in
the Wide World, is u huge, unclassitied
aquatic monster. 1t resembles, in
many of its characteristics, the extinct
dinOsaur, huge reptile of the MeSo-
Zoic period fossils of which have been
discovered by paleontologistS in the
sandstone strata both of the African
and American continents.
1t lives in Lake Victoria NyanZa
and its numerous tributaries, and
(thcre is no record Of the monster hay
ing been seen in any other part of the
world. Whether it is Il descendant Of
one of the huge prehistoric saurians
that has by Il process Of adaptatiOn-
living rs it does in impcnetrable re-
gions far away from the encratch-
ments of civilized man-cOntnu"d
with but slight notifications through
prOdigious ages to the present time, or
whether it is an unclaSsiticd reptile
or amphiban, it is equally impossible
to say, as no specimen exists either
of its bones or of its skin. That this
monster does exist, however, there can
he no particle of doubt, as the tcSti-
mony of authoritative eye-witnesses
cannot be reasonably diScrcdited.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-11-29
SEEMS TO FIND LITTLE JOY
Possibly Premonition Of Its Fate
Makes the Turkey Such Con-
firmed Pessmst.

The turkey is a serious bird. The
expression written on his bill, as he
looks mournfully out over the world
or walks solemnly, his long neck sway
Ing here and there in search of the
passing grasshopper, Is that of a set
tied melancholy due to the certainty
of fate and to the hereditary loss Of
his illusions.
For, ever since the days of the Pill
grim Fathers, the lives of countless
generations Of the turkey family have
been cut short in their prime by sud-
den and bloody tragedy. What would
be the effect upon the minds and
hearts of human family if every
member of it for 800 years back had
met violent and bloody end just upon
reaching maturity? A pail would hang
over the annals of the house. Despair,
fixed and settled, would be written
into the very constitutions of its MEM
bers. and life would become IL burden,
q curse almost too great to be borne.
1t must have been that one of the
Pilgrim Fathers, viewing the end of
the turkey as symbolic of that OF
man, wrote that cheerful ditty which
our ancestors were accustomed to
sing in their gathering for divine wor-
ship:
Thy years are one eternal day,
And must thy children die so soon?
Minneapolis Journal.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-11-29
American Pin Globe Trotter.

The American pm goes the wide
world around, and our exports are
pretty equally divided between the or.
dinary pin and the safety pin. Mis-
sionaries from Africa and Asia say
that the American safety pin Is SO
highly valued that it takes the place
Of currency. Manila is said to he
taking 100000 gross annually, and Italy
bought last year 2,I60,00O safety pins
The reason for this is the shortage of
supplies from European countries
England France and Italy need the
metals for military purposes, and Ger
many and Austria will not make pins
even If they could get them out Of the
country, because they need the metal
too badly for guns and shells. The
American pin made by machinery is
Of superior quality, and the machines
are so developed that they can be fur
nished even more cheaply than by the
cheap labor in Europe.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-11-29
KEEP UP ANCIENT CUSTOMS
Widely Separated Communities, ven-
Ice and Cork, Maintain Curious
! Ceremony Of Throwing Dart.

In widely differing communities
Venice and Cork--tllere obtains a Gu
rious ceremony, that of throwing the
dart. In the first case this Is an an
cient custom signifying the marriage
of the Adriatic. Every year since Ill.,
on Ascension day, Venice has beeh
made the bride of the sea, and the
throwing of the dart is picturesque
feature of a picturesque ceremony.
Equally interesting are the, circum-
stances attaching to the simitr func-
ton on the first Thursday OF Septem-
Der in Cork harbor, Ireland.
BY virtue Of clause In the city
charter the mayor of Cork is constl-
tuted admiral of the port. Every three
years he must evidence his jurlsdlc-
tion by throwing dart into the sea.
At two o'clock in the afternoon the
mayor, the town council, all the civic
officers. and the band of the Cork civil
artillery embark on vessel and pro-
ceed to a point between Poor Head
and Cork Head, which is held to be
the maritime boundary of the borough.
The mayor dons his official robes,
and, attended by the mace and sword
bearer, the city treasurer and the town
clerk, likewise wearing their official
robes, goes to the PROV Of the vessel
;hnd launches into the sea dart made
of mahogany tipped and winged with
bronze, in this way asserting his au-
thority as lord high admiral of the
port.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-11-29
MAKES NEW TYPE OF GUN
English Manufacturer Produces
Weapon With One Barrel Above
Other instead Of Side by Side.

A prominent gun manufacturer In
England has recently produced dou-
bl,.-barreled shotgun having one barrel
above the other instead of the two be-
ing side by side; says Popular Me-
chanicS Magazine. This arrangement,
1t is claimed. offers considerable advan-
tage in aiming, for the hunter is not
confused by II barrel either side the
line of aim. The breadth of the dou-
bic barrel.is reduced by more than one
half, thus permitting the game to be
seen up to the moment of firing.
The fore end of the stock is so fash
ioned that it fills the left hand and
allows firm grip to be obtained, while
the arrangement of the barrels brings
that hand well below the line of vision
when aiming. The gun is equipped
with single trigger and a special
lock which make possible light pull
off, If desired.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-11-29
Jov in ThanksqivinQ.

1t is a pity that so few pious peo-
pie have learned how to participate
In the deep happiness that is con-
tanned in thanksgiving to God for
events that bring joy or for happy
days. If some joyous event comes
quite unexpectedly or long desired
into our life, if father or son returns
from the war; If convalescence comes
at last, if a victory is won, how warm
and generous then rises the impulse
from the souls depths to seek a
Spirit whom one can thank for 1t
all Happy he who knows then the
way to the throne of God! Then the
vibrations of the soul ring out JOY
Gus Thanksgiving to God. This
thanksgiving to him to whom in faith
we attribute the event gives 1t it's
significance, gives it place in a vast
er holy process, that is above all 9TH
er things.