New Britain herald., 1917-05-19

place for ho1d-up now has more of the clements of a modern city strest.
 Having but ono entrance add exit at each end and that on the ritSt side, people riding on the F. A. Y..aE. cars will now have to exercise more eau tion in alighting from the cars at Central Park. Look before you leAp's will have to be constantly on t&eir mind.
 Local followers of Isaac Walton have had but little to brag about this spring. The broos.s have all been high and the weather cold. anything but favorable to trout fishing. Even the most enthusiastic have had but few elaborate stories of their prowess to relate. %, .sst :. Manager F. L. Beardsley of the Connecticut company states that in all probability a new ruling whereby trolley cars will stop on the near side of all crossings will become effective about June 1. This will be a much needed reform in the management of the local lines. At present trolley cars, when stopping to take on pas sengers, always cross the intersecting street before coming to a stop. AL though 1t is no new rule, 1t seems al-- most impossible that people will ever learn it and consequently there are frequent occasions when people stand patiently on the near side of the street waving their hand in vain for the motorman to stop. Then they have to cross through the oftimes muddy street and board the car some distance further up. But that Is not the worst fault, for the more anxious or athletic would-be passengers often decline to wait until the car stops and essay to jump aboard as 1t patses. They are frequently thrown. some- times injured and always indignant. For better service. stopping on the near side of the street is a distinct improvement. So too, are the new P. A. Y. B. cars on the Hartford branch. They are more comfortable. decidedly more sanitary and make better time.
 Never has the passing of . citizen been more sincerely mourned by the members of the fire department than that of the late :. Dwight Parsons. who died Sunday night. For although MT. Parsons, Deacon" as he was always fondly known to the boys" in the fire department, was beyond the Biblical thrab score and ten years mark. he still continued. to be "one of the boys' and up Go the very day on which his failing health compelled him to remain indoors, never again to walk out, he kept alive his inter- est in the firemen and visited them at their quarters. For Deacon" Parsons was an honorable tradition in the Ire department and stories of him will be told to the fire fighters of tho next generation. In his youth Mr.. Par sons was .. member ot the volunteer fire department and from hence sprang his love for the clang of tho bell, the roar of the flames and the odor of burning material. In, the early seventies. when the Landers, Frary & Clark factory burned down. Mi. Parsons was assistant chief of the fire department, resigning q few years later. But as the years rolled by the veterans interest in the> de- partment never waned. It is said of him that there was not a day of his AAc' WilCA AsS WdS dOA0 tO U0 out OI doors. that he did not stop in for a friendly call and chat at the head quarters station and frequently at the other engine houses where he was always welcome guest. He took great pride in the development of the fire department from the old hand cart days to the modern auto trucks and even as late as last fall he would mount his bicycle and ride to almost every alarm that was sounded during the day. The firemen will miss "Dea- con" Parsons. He was their friend and they were his friends. Oftimes on hot summer afternoons the 'Dea- con" would drop in at . dre station