Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-10
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Editor of EVENING DEMOCRAT:
 I see in your report of South Riverside and Bank streets you say the City maintain that the plan to discontinue South River side street is more feasible and less expen- sive. It has been proven not 50 nope you don't mean MT Terry is the city. To our knowledge and from what we i learn from others he had not been instl -cted by the Council to talk as he did with regard to it. Just think, MT Editor, of Attorney Kellogg asking the Railroad Commissioners to discontinue South Riverside street, and he Booth & Haydens' attorney; and MT Terry following in the same strain. Is there on record anything to equal it in i'm pudence It is downright injustice to the people of South Riverside street and to the public in general People are amazed at it. I often heard it said that Corporations have no souls, this is clear case of 1t, by this Corporations attorney seeking to take from the people what belongs to them for their own use. It is case of vandalism unheard of in this enlightened age of boast ed civilization and of equal rights. Poor men bought lots on North and South Xiv erside streets, went in debt for them, built houses and went in debt for building them also, suffered privations in which wives and children shared, in order to try and
 
 spectacle of this Corporations attorney coming before honorable men and request ing them to take the peoples street from them, street they have been travelling over for nearly quarter of century. Attorney Kellogg remarked at the same time that the people could walk round by Leonard street to Bank, and after while they would get used to it. Now MT Editor if F. J. Kingsbu,y y, Earle Smith or George B. Terry lived on South Riverside street would this talk of discontinuing said street be indulged in. Oh, no! Walking round by Leonard street and living on the south ern part of South Riverside street to those who work in Plume & Atwood's, the Ring would mean that those working men and girls would have to walk about one mile extra every day, at least so long as they own place or live on South Riverside street. The people living on the north end of the street, if working in Benedict & Burnham's shop, would be obliged to do l the same amount of walking. The City Engineer testified that it is five hundred feet farther around by South Leonard street. Those working people must walk | their 800 feet in the morning, twice the distance at noon, and again coming from work in the evening, making four times 2 1 day or necessary, ana IT they want to dC any trading in the evening they must walk their 800 feet twice more, and continue SC to do while they own property or work il those places. We'll, it will be said, lei them sell their places and move. Proba ply they could not sell them if the stree is discontinued, or if they did get custo mer they would have to sell five hundred or thousand dollars less than they would get to-day with the street open. MT Edito there is no public necessity for discontinu ing this street, on the contrary there is great necessity for keeping it open. I public safety requires the doing away witl the grade crossing at South Riversid street, why not tunnel, it has been provel that it can be tunneled, and that the City share of the expense will not exceed $3, 1000 MT Terry says the street is not worth tel thousand dollars, yet it is an open secre that Booth & Haydens have offered ten O twelve thousand dollars toward making
 new street for the people about the tim they built their large office on the new la out South Riverside street was dedicate' and paid for by the people several year before Booth & Haydens bought their lam and before the railroad was built. Is no MT Terry the attorney of Holmes, Booth { , Haydens, and has he not acted as such fc the last few years, do you know, MT Edito'
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