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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1913
Page
4
Our officers will be glad at any time to talk with you in regard to opening your account and to extend to you any courtesies in their power.
The New England Steamship Company lists the Bridgeport line to New York with ferries leaving from Fairnela ce Wharf weekdays at 5 A M and from Pier 27 at 3 P M return. and the Naugatuck steamer from Pequonnock Wharf daily at midnight with return from Pier 27 at 11 A M daily except Sundays. agents L B Nickerson.
Press Bureau report on New York, New Haven and Hartford service compares February and March figures with rivals. New Haven trains late 17% in January, 12% in February, and 9% in March statewide. The line led among four major railroads for consistency and improvement across the period. Also note May 20 figures show 2,140 passenger trains with 2% late. Bridgeport Amusement Company incorporation filed by Hubbard Lewis and McIntyre to promote a Bridgeport motion picture venture.
Stamford June 2 James Everard founder of the Everard breweries died at his home on Strawberry Hill late Saturday afternoon from a complication of diseases. He was 85 and survived by his second wife and daughter Mrs Olga Williams. Once a Bowery poor boy he held many jobs before starting the brewing firm in 1876 after a friend urged him to keep brewing.
Washington reports Representative Richard W. Austin of Knoxville Tennessee resigned the Glasgow consulate to run for Congress and urges river navigation. He argues water transportation reduces costs, cites savings on marble pig iron and freight, and calls for federal funding to develop interior waterways on a business basis to boost cheap transport and compete with foreign rates.
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