The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-10-18

be very ap, to think, were it NOT for the ,
general stir and activity which it exhib-
It's, that he was in one of the by-st eeIs ,
Of the place. The upper part of the
street has lately be, u somewhat improv-
ed and it is sincerely to be hoped that
the marc ch of Improvement will continue
downward down the street We mean
until all the old buildings arc replaced
by new ones, set TAR enongh back 10 give
IA respectable width to the street, aud
comfortable sidewalk, which shall be
appropriated TO The use Of bipeds, in
stead of being monopolised by quadru.
ped,, AS is too mach the case now.
1t would be folly to expend large
amount OF money in Improving our
streets, so long as every violent rain
which occurs washes them aud gullies
holes in them sufficiently large in VIII c,
TO bury cart and oxen; which, it is
we'll known, frequently occurs at the
head of Main Street, VIII. re it is inter-
sected by Broad, and it probably always
will be the case until the sewer under
Broad Street is made of sufficient ca
pacity to carry off any amount Of water
that may fall, instead Of allowing ii to
carry off the top of the street rs it has
done some two or three times within two
years past. No doubt, the money which
has been expended in filling in tha place
and which, until something else be-
sides filling in is done, will have to be
repeated nd ,nfnitum-wonld have put
sewer through iherc which would have
remediel all difficulty.
When the sewer is completed and
indeed before unless that is done sooner
than there is now prospect of-we
want new bridge across tue river -
Now, We submit it to any reasonable
man, if that old bridge is not standing
disgrace to the towns Of Westerly and
Stonington. 1t isa great pity that some
Of the freshets which We have during
the winter season, could not sweep the
old concern, and carry it clear out to
the south side of Black Island, where it
might serve a very good purpose as
kindling wood for the " natyvcs," who,
We are told, sometimes stand greatly in
need of that article. We certainly
should have here good, substantial,
stone bridge Citiz rs Of Westerly and
Stonington, let US have new bridge.
There is probably no one thing, which
We have not, that is more needed in thi.
village, than good hotel. There i:
travel enough, and business enough in
this place to sustain one of the f st class
Our principal hotel here is 4 building
considerably past the age Of man--thrce
score years aud ;en-indeed. we believe
snme parts of it is ever y hundred y'ars
old and it is not at all adapted to the
pnrI oses ct public house for t',"se GO
ahead times The sui jcct has been a.
various times agitated, but as yet the
prospect seems to b. that We shall have
to wait sometime before we shall have a
hotel worthy Of the place
We also want Towr Hall. We
should like TO know if there is another
town in the United States containing m
equal mum er Of inhabitants, aud an
equal amount of wealth, with the town
Of Westerly, that is destitute of decent
place for holding its business meetings.
We should have in this village commo-
dious hall, one sufficiently large f,r all
the purposes ofa town hall an exhibition
and Concert room, and all Other purpos e
of like nature We doubt not that n
ball for such purposes would be profit
able Investment, and it certainly would
remove black mark which now stands
against the place.
Apropos Of a hall-are we to have a
course oflrctures this winter, or are we
to get along as we have done for num-
bsr Of WHITES past' We pause for a
reply A faint echo reaches our ear
get along as We have done for number
of winters past We feared AS much.
Through individual enterprise, We last
winter had some four or five lectures.
which--tho they were not patronised,
owing to various untoward circumstau-
ces, as they should have been, still we
believe they something more than paid