The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-12
STAMFORD

The trolley company kept things knowing yesterday and last night and
 cars were schedule this morning,
 TOT which everyone is truly thankful.
 It was fortunate that the sudden fury
 or storm broke at 8:30 a. m. instead
 of at night. The regular cars kept
 the going open on most of the line,
 ters along. without having to resort
 much to the heavy snow blows.
 According to Donald Sa:mnlis, secouncilnan from the Second district,
 Stratford folks who have the beauty
 of the town at heart, can play out
 and take. and thereby help matters
 along The idea is this. There seems
 10 be nothing to prevent Stratfordites
 tearing unSightly signs down from
 trees Just as fast as they are tackled
 up: You put one up, and your nedghbor can take it down.
 The Community Forum of strat,
 ford, whose sessions are held in the Congregational church, has erected
 Mb atsractlve bulletins around the town. I events of interest bee hronicled.
 Regular meetings will be held at ! 2:S0 p. m. each Tuesday in the town @ who are interested will study parlia- 2 mentary law. Mrs. Harry Wilcoxson i IS In charge of the work. Infoma- ton to any who would like to join Y the movement may be obtained of Miss M. L. Hull. 2212 Elm street.
 Chief Judson of the Fire depart 1 ment, will soon have more to do. He. I and his men will be responsible for E Inspection of premises to remove fire hazards, by the wording of a new ordinance, probably to soon be law. : The idea is strictly up-to-date and if f vii mt { many fires in the future, but it m cans a lot of work for two men, | who already have plenty to do and 1 who really ought to be pretty near i the telephone in headquarters at all l times.
 new sidewalk ordinance, Engineer Paul Goodell will have full authority tNo petitions from property owners ! will be necessary. GoodeII will make l 8 survey, and where walks seem nee essary he will have the authority to order them down. The width, grade and materials to be used will be des- f1gnated by him. If after a reasonable { tlme, the property owner does not nave the work attended to, the town : Will lay the walk, the cost to be placed aSainSt the propeHy on the taa bill 1 If not paid in this manner a lien will :: then be placed against the property Lay those walks and beat Goodell to it. :. Gustave F. Ruther. of the Southern New England Telephone company, who lives in LOrdship, states that the : people of that section are not -disao- {. pointed :n the results to them of the co'lncil-manager government. There ! have been no results as far as they can see, he states, but they expected none so are not put out about the matter.
 Lordship people have not gotten over the way they were treated as to l ire protection last winter They blame former First Selectman James 1ialley and Fire Chief Judson equally Ter allowing them to be without any kind of protection for weeks during 1 time Of the year when it would have | been nearly impossible to have reached Lordship from the Center | with other apparatus. There are two l Ire companies now in IAordship. The | one that Is most popular with the res 1dsnts an Independent organization | and the town company It is claimed | InaI ,! the man placed in charge of the | Bridgeport. Members Of the other l company have been told not to touch | the apparatus. Should there be a | 1Aght fire in Lordship 1t will be in 1 teI esting to see just what happens, l F besides the burning of the unfortu- nate building that furnished fuel for | the experiment.
 And in Lordshfp Is found the near est approach in Stratford to a dis trict longing for annexation to Bridgeport The fire protection mat the center is another and transporta- l ton. nothing that Stratford can help, 1 probably the most influential To ] get to Stratford center to the town 1 hall, it is necessary to use hourly | ear service. There one must wait l for a Paradise Green or Stratford i center car. and thus pay 15 cents | each way to reach the center Re turning, the trip from the center to 1 Hollfster avenue is all right, but a | person doesn't know just how long it may be before a car will be rum 1 ming to Lordship, for travel in all but | this line. A trip to Bridgeport and return may be made in much less time.
 Many of the Lordshbp all year round residents, in fact most of them, either own a business or are employed in Bridgeport. The per centage is even higher than in other ship residents who have never been to Stratford center. The same con- ditiOn exists as does in StratfieId in relation to Fairfield ;on1y in a more eXa ggerated sense.
 The fact that Pleasure Beach. for merly a part of Stratford, and almost connected with Lordship. was sold to that Lordship will eventually be part | of Bridgeport. we have scarcely nothing in common with the rest of 1 Stratford except. arguments stated upon Lordship residents, may be true Of a great proportion of them.
 With the first case of smallpox re- ported in Milford. stratford is still t