New Britain herald., 1926-07-16
PainuiMe Neus
FIRE ALARM READY FOR SUNDAY NIGHT New Whistle Meets All Tests in
 Satisfactory Manner HOLD SURPRISE PARTY

HULL DUhfhDE pAklf Miss Cecilia Dame Honored On
 Birthday-Hope to Put Traffic
 Change Through Today-Hartford
 Team Here Sunday-Briefs.
 A thorough test of the new fire whistle on the town hall was made yesterday afternoon and the appara- tus met 1t successfully As a result of it's passing this examination. the new alarm will be used for any fires after midnight Sunday.
 The longest call which the whistle will be called upon to blow is 6. and all calls are repeated four times. Yesterday afternoon 24 blasts, were sounded, with more after but a short pause, and the whistle blew the final ones as loudly as it did the first. Sllu W HE tlldl IL NOulu iHGtl any emergency of double alarm or of two fires at about the same time. The whistle is 22 inches long and eight inches in diameter, five pounds of pressure being required for each blast. It is hooked to the telephone exchange and operated from there by a keyboard arrangement similar to that in fire alarm boxes. This keyboard system could be used 10 blow several whistles in various parts of the town if connected up.
 Further tests may be made of the whistle before midnight Sunday, bur the public is notified that until that time the sounding of the alarm will be mere test and not a call of fire. Commencing on Monday. the old practice of blowing of two blasts each noon will be resumed; this has not been done since the dismantling of the alarm in the Bristol Mfg. Co. factory.
 Surprise Party
 A surprise party was held last evening at the home of Arthur Dame on Bank street in honor of the 17th birthday anniversary of his daughter Cecelia. After several vu- cal selections, several piano offerings were played by Mrs. Nellie LaCross a graduate of the Troy Conservatory of Music These included Chopin's | Meditation" from "Tha1s"; Beetho- | ven's Moonlight Sonata" and Moonlight and Roses" A buffer | luncheon was served.
 The gathering was also a farewell | party to Mrs. LaCross, who has been called away on urgent business to Cohoes N. Y.
 Hope to Begin Today
 Hope was expressed by First Se- Iectman William J. Johnson today that the new arrangement of troll leys and automobile parking In Gen. tral square could be put into effect today The weather yesterday pre- vented the affiXing of the mo park ing" signs, but it was planned to have them in place before tonight. l AS soon as they were set up, the Connecticut Co. was to be notified, | and the trolley cars would then be- | gin to use the new stop by Thrall's drug store instead of across the | square.
 Hartford Emcralds Coming
 The Emeralds of Hartford will be the opponents of the All-Plainvilles Thn J-iSitnrG [ more or less an unknown quantity, but are said to have number of stars in their lineup and to be able to offer potent resistance to the local array. Plainville has now lost two games in succession, mainly through hard luck, and the boys are chafing under these setbacks and anxious to nut themselves on the right side of the ledger again, The game will be ! called at the high school field promptly at 3 o'clock Sunday after- noon.
 The local "Y" team will meet the Orford Soap team of Manchester on the local grounds tomorrow after noon in battle for second place in the county league.
 Drought Broken
 The long drought which has pre- vailed for many weeks has been broken at last to a small degree by the rains of last night and the night before. Wednesday night and yes terday morning PlainVille was more fortunate than surrounding places in getting more rain than they did, while fairly steady drizzle set in about o'clock last night and con- tinued for several hours. This in it. self will hardly be sufficient to re- lieve the farmers of the difficulties in which they have been placed by the dry spell, but the superstitious ones among them are pointing a good omen to the fact that yester day was St. Swithin's day. They therefore hope for a continuation of the wet weather. although admitting that 40 days of it would be too much.