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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1923
Page
16
The weekly report from the Manufacturers Association shows thirty-one factories employing 17,909 workers for the week ending February 17, up from 13,650 the prior year. Average hours per worker were 66.0 in a five and a half day period with an average schedule of 49.8 hours, 1.5 hours above normal.
A Baird Machine Company order described large attractive figures with a price of twenty eigh million but the figures referred to marks not dollars, revealing it as an illusion rather than an actual sale or currency.
Ancillary receivers in a District of Connecticut case order the sale of all assets of AMERICAN & BRITISH MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Parcels include Bridgeport real estate, heavy machinery, and office equipment. Auctions set for March 27, with bids, deposits, and court confirmation required, under supervision of Judge Edwin S. Thomas and Receiver William H. Wakelee.
The Belknap Manufacturing site is being razed for Jenkins Brothers six story plant with starts March 15 per VP C W Barrington. Concrete construction adds about 250000 square feet of floor space. contracts are let.
Cur b market in New York sees heavy selling in leading high priced shares with mining issues like Independence Load Mohican Copper and Goldfield shares remaining active. Independent Oil and Gas stay relatively firm while United Retail Candy shows strength amid general profit taking. Tay Yaxt Cab debuts at 32 dollars with funds earmarked to buy new taxicabs.
Week in state bankruptcy filings shows 14 petitions with liabilities 160 250 and assets 73 719 up from last year. Comparisons show 11 petitions last year with liabilities 34 554 assets 30 365 and eight in 1921 with liabilities 55 028 assets 17 747. New incorporations total 14 with authorized capital 880 000, versus 14 last year with 1 035 000 and eight in 1920 with 393 000.
Captain J J McEwen will coach West Point football next season replacing Major Charles D Daly who will move from quarterback to other duties after Fort Hamilton posting Daly is expected to go to Porto Rico and return August tenth Army prospects look bright with only four regulars graduating Key losses include Bretter White Mimberlake Dodd and Lawrence Newcomers include Garbish Farciock Mulligan Goodman Storck Wood Smythe Gillmore Ives Ellinger Mack and others McEwen plans spring practice and aims to face Notre Dame on October 13 at a big venue likely Polo Grounds or Yankee Stadium
New York Feb 06 Columbia University nearly hired Johnny Mohardt a Notre Dame star as coach for next fall after he introduced himself as Johnny Mobardt. He, later revealed as Stephan Englewood N Stephano, admitted he was a fan of football and knew Notre Dame players. Officials declined charges and freed him with a promise not to seek future coaching under false names.
New York February 26 Joe Jeannette one of the greatest negro heavyweights ever developed was yesterday appointed as referee and judge by the New York Boxing Commission He is the first negro to hold such posts and will referee bouts at clubs where colored boxers are staged such as the Commonwealth and the 15th Regiment Armory Jeannette now retired won boxing titles in 1904 and faced top heavyweights including Sam Langford in both the United States and France His appointment is expected to be popular with boxing fans.
Philadelphia February 26 Walter Kinney a southpaw pitcher for the Athletics was reinstated after being banned in 1923 for deserting to the Old League in western Pennsylvania. Manager Connie Mack welcomed the move saying Kinney could be a valuable addition if he retains top form from 1919 when he tied the season strikeout record with eleven.
The piece reflects on managerial feats in baseball, highlighting John McGraw’s pursuit of three straight World Series titles and earlier champions like Frank Chance and Connie Mack. It weaves in broader sports notes, then shifts to basketball growth in the South with Atlanta hosting a large college carnival, referencing teams, stars, and the era’s shifting glory.
Five barges carrying about 8590 tons of bituminous coal arrived from New York in tow of the tug George MacCaffrey. Three barges went to Karma Terminal, two to American Tube and Stamping. A second tow brought furni ure coke to General Electric and Karma Terminal. Tugs Comet and Onrust left Saybrook with a lighter of anthracite. Lighthouse Service seeks men. apply to superintendent of lighthouses, Tompkinsville, Staten Island.
Eighteen Columbia track and field men will compete in the second annual inter collegiate meet Saturday night at the Twenty second Regiment Armory on 168th street between Broadway and Fort Washington avenue. Fifteen are entered in track events and three in field contests.
Frank Harding of Cincinnati former first baseman with Maysville Kentucky Blue Grass League club was sold to the Cincinnati Nationals today and will join the team next week as understudy to veteran Jake Dauhert.
A New Haven paper notes Sailor Maxted hails from Meriden and that Bridgeport lies nearby. It mentions Maxted being involved in a so called gentleman agreement affair in Buenos Aires, prompting questions about his visit away from Bridgeport.
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