New Britain herald., 1927-07-11

ton, near the Berlin Auto Sale Co.
The road has been made narrow at
that point, due to the fact that
workmen are engaged in removing
the trolley car tracks from the thor
oughfare. No one was injured.
Officer George Kanupka of the
Berlin police department investi-
gated the accident, but found no
cause for arrest, stating that it was
apparently case of misjudgment
rather than anything else. He did
not take the names of those In
volved In the crash.
Had Improper Brakes
Hector Hamilton OF Dix avenue,
this city. was arrested by Officer
George Kanupka at the intersection
of Berlin street and Pennington
avenue yesterday afternoon, after
the New Britain mans car had COL
lided with another machine. The
other car. proceeding south on the
turnpike. attempted to turn into
Pennington avenue and Officer
Kanupka gave the driver permission
to do So motioning for Hamilton to
stop. The man was unable to do
so and his machine struck the other
one, damaging fender.
Hamilton was arrested for driving
with improper brakes and he will
appear before Judge George G. Girls
void in the Berlin town court to-
morrow night at 1880 o'clock.
Arrested After Accident
Jim Grice of "a Sanford street,
Hartford, and Wyle D.. Glass of 4o4
Bellevue street, Hartford, both
colored, we're arrested on the turn
pike last night at about 1880 o'clock
by Officer Frank Brown, after a car
owned by Glass and operated by
Grice, struck another machine. bear
ing Massachusetts markers.
The accident was slight one, but
it proved to be enough to cause the
arrest of Grice for driving without
a license, and of Glass for failing to
have his car equipped with Public
Service markers when he was carry
ing passengers for hire.
Both men will appear In the Ber-
lin court tomorrow night at 1880
o'clock to answer to their charges.
Fire District Meeting
The long heralded meeting Of the
Kensington Fire district will be held
Friday evening of this week at 8
o'clock. daylight saving time, at
Foresters' hall, according to an an
nouncement by members Of the COM
mittee.
A proposition to extend the water
mains will be acted upon. The COM
mittee has advanced the proposition
and it is now up to the voters to act.
The meeting will also consider to
ACCESSIBILITY of issuing bonds. II 1t
be deemed advisable, the members of
the district will vote to authorize the
issue and sale OF bonds Of the dis
trict to an amount sufficient to meet
the expenses of the extensions of the
watermains. The matter of borrow
ing money and OF laying tax will
also be considered, as will that of
fixing the compensation of the col
lector and of other members OF the
district committee.
Adding Machine Baseball
An extremely quick scorer played
the star role In the baseball game
Saturday afternoon at Benedict
Phillips field. Kensington, when the
Kensington Congregational church
team met the aggregation from the
Plainville Y. NJ. c. A. A total Of 43
runs was made, Kensington winning
by the narrow margin of % to 21.
The game was wide open affair.
with the batters hitting everything
that came their way, from small
pebbles to baseballs. The feeders, in
a wild fenzy. dashed hither and
thither. but they might Just as well
have been home for all the good
they did. as far as preventing the
scoring of runs was concerned. So
constant was the crack OF bat
against ball that several Eefiin con-
stables rushed to the field to put a
stop to supposed late Fourth Of
July celebration.
After battling along for eight IN
nings, Plainville tied the score In
the ninth. being first at bat. Then
Greco. a heavy-slugging Kensing-
tonian, drove the fielders back to
the fence with a long hit which
brought in the winning run. The