New Britain herald., 1922-09-11
Traffic Cop Lit Up"

The peaceful residents of this staid
 old town were quite disturbed last
 night when they heard that their
 traffic officer, doing duty at Wood
 ruff's Corner, was 'all lit up" last
 night The scandal mongers were
 ''all set" for feast, for what could
 be better story to spread than that of really and truly traffic officer "all lit up" while on duty? And thus the two tides flowed, one of those
 desirous of spreading reports of
 wrong doing upon the part of the up-
 holder of the law, the other hating
 to hear any story which would reflect
 in any way upon the dignity of the
 minions of the law in a peaceful and
 almost perfectly law abiding com
 munity.
 E Consternation filled the hearts of
 the scandal mongers and deep relief
 pacified the fear sof their brethren of opposite likes, when it was learned that the traffic cop was really Tit up" but the light came from a red lantern and the cop was only dummy. In other words, the acci- dent of few weeks ago, when Con- stable Brown fell victim to a driver who cared not for custodans of the law, was too much for Constable Grville Ventres, who, while fearless in many instances. is nevertheless undesirous of having autosts strike him, and therefore proceeded to get a red lantern and place it in the middle of the highway to direct night drivers as to their traffic duties.
 The new cop worked well last night and few of those passing tried to cut it. Those who thought their left hand side was good enough heard the shrill whistle of the constable sum moning them. After a reprimand all the volators were allowed to go. Constable Nentres stayed by the road side to see just how many drivers would obey the dictates of the warn ing light. It is probable that live officer will be done away with forth with.
 Progress on Water Mains.
 The work of installing water ma Ens in Berlin, preparatory to giving run ming water service to the residents of the community, is progressing rapid ly The contractor in charge has two gangs of men working, one in Kensington and the other in Berlin. The Berlin section progressed to Woodruffs Corner on Pennington avenue on Saturday. This morning work was started on the trenches to be dug on Worthington Ridge. Due to the fact that the Ridge is newly paved with a cement highway, which the state will not permit to De and also due to trees and big roots obstructing work right next to the highway, the men in charge of laying the main on Worthington Ridge are digging their trenches about six feet from the sidewalks. This means that the pipes are to be laid on the property of the residents of the street. Whether or not the state highway will have to be broken 70 make connections from the oppo- site side of the street, for those wish ng the service, is not known, but it s thought that a tunneling process will be undertaken, with the result hat the cement highway will be broken in no place, except where ab- olutely necessary. The work of sup plying Berlin with city water service S expected to be finished by the ad- 'ent of cold eather.
 Property Purchase Reported.
 It was reported about town this morning that Adam Adamovitch of Ridge has purchased the