The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-02-06 00:00:00

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W. W. BURDON, M 34, AND THE WEYMOUTH

OAS QUESTION.

To the Miaow

Having seen your of the lath inst., with an
article heeded Oen " sad an meount at •
meeting at Weymouth, you will permit me to old
wed remerks thereon. Until the year MC in Ber.
wisher, no gas existed in Weymouth. I this pa
to erect wori but stet with meth oppoid and
thread of Isdiotwasta for ouleanes, he. %zealot-
tics was made to the thee Ceepenstioe, a now
politleafly sad phycleelly deka= for parriceires to
ere= a wooden teldp across the &awake., cm whist'
to lay the pipes. Ns I wog delve& to lad a site far the
work. to the ether side of the water. This pgrasiegos
was Idly refused as the ground that they, the=
tion, expoded books ordild be made Is Mee
for East Indiums. The result is, that then sow diet
two Bridges and no Docks. This is the wisdom of our
=pester& I them proposed to make a teasel sad=
and in the fall expestatioa that it imuld get be
=7lLperniimion was graded. 1. began it, and Balked
It before the Thames tunnel. Oes wee supplied on the
Mb September, IEIS, and sines then has gene is with
various phases. Every one knows how the town laa-
guished until the two railroads were opened to it. The
gas works parlisipated In that daisies, sad no far from
paying use anything. I hod to find shoat 111111f.zr
annum to carry them on, toning the interest of
sad thie mosey besides. During all the maaagome.ira
Dodson tile took plass, and the adlonation it ell
people were =used less for their pa, is that, shoal
ties-thirds of all the orders never moved at all, betng
out of repair, and the public were shaded by gads
work, or approximation, whist' gum week told seeioesly
wind me, and in their favour. Just before his death
the works were let, and cm the sew Meant arriving, the
bad meter. were tame out, and new case sappOod,
which did mot stand still, but went round, as an gee-
tieman remarked as the meefilg, whites pissed shallow
wit edited great mirth—foe rBoles debases always
loves a Joke." Yes, the metre west round. Yr. flay
does not expect niniors to minter if they stand MM.
though the idea of their ping round was iro very
leaden& Perhaps the new oompany's teeters will be
mode to stead still,aad mine going rowed an toned halt
with. No change took lilies MU shoat UK The
works Urea improved a little, and it is oaly for the last
three years that they bad returned me anything arr
prowls* to • fair per eestage. Per same year. I
=did thee, works en, sinking urcesey for the bomb of
the town, and now the tows desires to ruin them, in
grateful reborn. But se I don't draw my meow of living
from the gas works, I may yet be able to make them
repent motoring into foolish speaulatioras without doe
onoulilsratioe. Did Mr. !Bata, this &lemon of gas
selence, tell you whet has been the result In nine cases
In 10, where opposition works are started? A rnage-
lid, and total Ices of the new @vital Invested, sad
always an increem of the reduced pries. Three times
Wu this town been threatesed with an opposition wee-
dad by needy speculated, and three tinier bought at
wisely thinking, that a "bird in band was worth two in
the bosh." I now some to the widest of the
sad line, who is this Mr. nal'at ? Is he • ID:IliII
known as a man ef high toopedabikty; with • eharsotor
ominblieliiid for barren probity and skill ? I had Dover
heard of it is that light.

Weymouth, or any other town wanted gas,
eZPirs not be prudant and wise to consult some wen
known honosrubis pi meow of tharaciter, ratkor thaa
tak. up with any specalator, who may west to make
money by misleading ignorant people, who ppe with
wonder, and take in every word he drops, is if it were
gospel? I know nothing of the man the town Ps bad
io Liao as on.. heyand repast, and the apselawa he .
has given of his tablets, his manner, sad bls wishes,
are none of them reloulated to make • favoarablo isn-
Felonies. The town may get up a compay, sail will
vegans an engineer or eontraetcr. It stay suit M.
Solomon Fliatoff to get the puree strings of the new
company soder his eastrol, and the town may discover
eventually, that thoir stotos of • lecturer has not been
the most fortunate. Be begins by informing you that
you are only doing what has berm dose in 'most caber I
towns of the kingdom," but gives ao dim proof of this
beyond his own word—a word which I should be sorry
to taks, judging by this looters, for the Indus of ono
half-peuay—and adds, they. had obtained • moody.
Yes, by throwing away capital and aweigametiew with
the old company. That, be did not toll you. He seps.
"they did not inset to put themselves in satensabei
with the existing arrespaay, oely In .it deteneo" ft
getting up a new company, suiberitaig £7,000 towards
It, declaring war to the knife, no anialsontaiion, mob
astegonism? Re took his audience kw children, and
believed that however po.s, vulgar , and insolent his
statement. robght b., they would believed. But
language of this sort is only natural from pesos "Born
in a garret, in a Moab= bred." less fancy to myself
such people soliloquising and saying with the poet