New Britain herald., 1926-07-30
RA!N SHUTS DOWN INGRAHAM PLANT
1,5OO EnplOyes Forced to Take
 Vacation for Day
FIREMEN IN DIAMOND TILT
Dispute Over Score May Result In Another Contest - Complaints of Sewage On Surface In Forestvillc --Chautauqua Deficit.

ADouC 1,50O employees of the E. Ingraham company are idle today as result of the heavy rainstorm last evening. Water seeped through the roof and dropped down onto the main belt putting it out of condi- tion for operation this mrning.
 William s. Ingraham, general manager of the concern. stated this morning that repairs would be com pleted today so that the factory would be ready to resume operations tomorrow morning.
 Bristol was visited by two thunder showers last night, the first one breaking shortly after II o'clock The second shower, in which the lightning was extremely close. came at l o'clock this morning and was accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain. Electric lights were out of lcommission for a short time, all though no other damage has been reported.
 Wclch Company Defeated l Before a large crowd of enthusias. tic fans. the Welch Fire company went down to defeat in a ball game on the grounds in the rear of tn, Central Fire Station last evening The opposition was furnished by ; team consisting of members iron each of the three Bristol companies
 The Forestville team, with Captail
 Roberts pitching and call man Nc Kenerney catching, got away to good start and at the end of th third inning was out in front by no to ? score. Quinn, pitching fo
 the Bristol team, frightened up an
 was given excellent support, par
 ticularly by Lieutenant Fitzsimmon
 of Hose Company No. 1. The Bris
 tol boys then got swinging thei ! bats lustily and coupled with mum
 Der of errors by the visitors, sue
 ceeded in adding nine runs, whic
 made the score II to 10. About thi time Forestville blew up entirel Is in favor of Bristol, as given ou by Official Scorer Dutton of tn . Central station. exception was take , to his totals by Frank Matthew
 who acted as scorekeeper for Fol , estville. Matthews claimed that th Iscore was a tie and that Dutton,
 the excitement of the game, saw tw Bristol runners scoring where on f one crossed the plate. It was necei a sary to call the game in the eight John H. Hayes stated after the gam !, that he thought it was only propt f that the game should be called a Ii land the playoff scheduled for som T afternoon in the near future.
 Due to the fact that it was dar
 when the game was completed. T drill was held. Councilmen Home
 H. Judd, Raymond Crumb an Walter w. Merrill, with Fire Con
 missioners Ingraham, Dutton an Roberts were among the spectator . After the game, refreshments wei = served to the invited guests by Chit , John H. Hayes.
 , Chautaugua Program
 The Chautauqua tent located ( , the Federal Hill green was aga n filled to capacity last evening,
 spite of the indictment weather pr r. vailing.
 The program. consisting of song whistling numbers, piano selection readings and a dramatic sketch, Vi . given this afternoon by the Fine son Winters company. This evenin g the comedy drama, "Applesauc - will be presented by New Yo Q cast. This play has enjoyed lol
 runs in Chicago. Boston, New To
 and Philadelphia and special pc - mission has been received for
 presentation on Chautauqua circui .c Boundary Dispute Hearing
 A boundary dispute between A
 +boD,, KomoDSlSv and Stanley Iert