New Britain herald., 1922-05-03
l. Plainville News FIRE DOES DAMAGE VI
 AT CAMP GROUNDS RageS Over 400 Acres of Land
 Causing Heavy Losses
 SPRINGFIELD MEN FINED

TrumbulI Bowlcrs Defeat Wallace. Barnes Players By Heavy Score Legion and Auxiliary To Meet To. morrow Night For Important Work A forest fire, which ragged tbe greater part of yesterday throuchout The section of the Advent C,mn grounds, destroyed practically 40o acres Of trees and brush and for |, time threatened barns and houses on parts of the grounds.
 The blaze evidently started at an early hour in the morning because if had gained much headway when For est Fire Warden Frank 0. Thomnson received call to battle the flames Warden Thompson gathered his men ana started out about 10 o'clock and all were well equipped with the new apparatus the state forwarded the local warden for this purpose.
 On arrival at the fire, Mr. Thomp- son saw the futiity Of fighting it With his little body Of men and sent in call for the fire department. The truck responded and another call was sent in to Pennington and Bristol to aid them, and in a short time there were scores of men assisting.
 The greatest difficulty in fighting the flames was the fact that water had to be carted from a distance of one mile and much time was lost A wagon was used for this purpose and crept northward water was secured from farmhouse. which made it easier and line of hose was also stretched. This aided in filling the i tanks.
 The fire department left shortly af- ter the noon hour as the blaze ap- parently seemed to be under control but at 3 o'clock it was called out again as slight wind increased and the flames spread more rapidly. Many citizens went to the scene of the fire and willing hands aided with brooms and whatever handy article could be grasped, to extinguish the fire. It was not until late in the evening that Warden Thompson dared call his men back after being satisfied that the fire was entirely outs
 A great deal of the land belonged to Selectman William J. Johnson, the Bristol Brass company, Walter Ben stead and Mr. Burns, according to the warden. and much timber was de- stroyed Mir. Thompson said that had it not been for the excellent fire fight ing facilities the state had given him the battle would have probably kept up for hours longer and more land would have been burned.
 The old method of fighting had been with brooms and shovels, while now the warden has hand pumps and chemicals which are capable of throwing a stream of water dis tance of about 20 feet. Steel buckets and small kegs make up part of the equipment.
 Springfield Men Fined.
 William G. Sanford of 319 State | street, Springfield, and William Ait ken, also of that city, were tried in | the local court yesterday afternoon | before Judge F. F.. Prior on charge of transporting liquor without gov ernment license. Both men pleaded guilty and were given fines. San ford, driver of the car, was fined s75,
  comrade. William Aitken was fined s25 and costs of s24.5o. Attorney c. Jones of Hartford, appeared as coun- sel for the men,
 The case was the result of col lision the two young men had on the night of April "A, when their auto crashed into a moving freight train in the center of the town at 4:3O o'clock in the morning. Their wreck ed car was later found to contain liquor.
 Mems Club Notes.
 The Mems club of the Episcopal church of Our Saviour held a sue cessful and enjoyable whist and Five Hundred card party at the parish house last evening. There was good A fair sum of money was realized,
 Next Wednesday evening. the regu- lar meeting of the club will be held at which Colonel George Catln, in charge of the R. o. T. C., of the New Britain High school, will give talk A large attendance is anticipated 10 ; greet Colonel Catlin on his first Nlslt to the club.
 Trumbuli Wins Bowling. I The Trlmbull Electric Manufactur- ing company bowling team succeeded i, dofe,tipr the Wallace Barnes ( nlayers in their opponents alleys in Bristol Monday night by total pln- fall of 27 pins. Stung by defeat, the \ Wallace-Barnes team has issue an l other challenge to the local pin rot- ers and the game will be staged N week from next Monday night The individual scores of the game are as t Follows
 TrumbuiI Electric
 i"incston .,.165 156 134- 455 Derby .137 150 142- 429 !