Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-22
COMNIUNICATIONs.


To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
endeavored in former communication
to impress upon the minds of the public that
Westville was the most available place for
holding the Worlds fair in 1899. 1 don't
think the public were very favorably i'm
pressed with the idea as have not heard of
any move being made to appoint committees
and attend to the preliminaries, but having
cast stone into the great pool of latent
thought waited, as often used to do when
I threw a stone into the water, to see the
agitation 1t would cause, to watch the ripples
as they ciroled out from the center and die
away. 1 repeat, have breathlessly watched
for the ripples of thought to expand until
watched in vain. No public meetings are
called, no committees appointed, still have
my own ideas and opinions, as Bunsby had,
and I behold events in Imagination and
have dreamy, far-away look which some of
my friends think indicates tendency to
softening of the brain. I see them putting
up their hands to their mouths and whispering
to each other their fears. don't pretend to
notice it, but see it always. They seem to
pity me, and always feel great deal bet
ter, for have been told that pity is akin to
love, and if they love me am satisfied, espe-
cially if they are of the opposite sex, but
that is not germane to the subject.
think was bemoaning the fact that no
committees had been appointed to consider
the availability and the great natural advan-
tages of Westville as base for erecting the
exposition here. You cannot force the mind
of the public. No one can. You have to
watch its tendency to drift and then skill
fully guide it, as the lumbermen do the logs.
Sometimes there is what is called a jam, and
then the matter requires heroic treatment,
r y &1 1,ok hot
heroic treatment is. Suffice 1t to say il
requires courage, and courage is a
quality that some do not possess. May be
do not myself. However, this vicinity,
| have been told by reliable authority, has
been the immediate center of the great hu-
mid wave that has recently swashed us with
it's spray. had some quiet words with the
engineer In Woodbridge, who is superintend-
ing the erection of the great dam. This is a
word scarcely ever use, but in this oonnec-
ton do not see any harm in mentioning the
word, as 1t applies only to the stoppage or
the flow of water and does not, as in some
| cases, apply to the flow of words. AS I was
about to observe I had a few words of a
| friendly character with the gentIemaly en-
| gineer, who impaired to me some Informs
| ton about the flow of water in rivers, but
can hardly recollect how many hundreds
of millions of gallons of water passed
4 q
| in the course of "a hours. He had 1t all
| down on chart, however, and could tell
how much the supply increased or decreased
or could tell before the late humidity. But
to get back to the point. 1 think he said
New Haven had received the most attention
from this general humidity of the atmos
phere, and as the dam or the plant, to use g
softer expression, was within the area, ol
| near the area 1t had witnessed copious ef
fusion from the aforesaid humidity. Tht
l water had come in such quantities that II
| had overhowed their roads and bridges anc
cut up an unheard of muss generally. Still
| the damage was slight and had not delayed
them seriously. 1 remarked to him in qui
ct aside that the country and the scenery wer
looking very beautiful all about, above ant
below through the valley, and that IL was
lovely place to build cottage by suci
| dam site. He only nodded in an approv'
ing way, and think, as he was superintend
ing lot of Italians who did not understand
English very well, that strong words had be
come SO familiar that he did not consider m
profane at all. He did not even smile, ant
make pun and think have succeeded
am dreadfully cut up If nobody smiles, and
often get in such predicament.
But am wandering again from my sui
ject, which was the site for the great expos
tion. But think the leaven with which
am trying to leaven the lump is working.
heard one man speak of it in
serious way, as If he though
Westville would be In danger fro,
a tower of such height 80 near, thoug
he really thought it likely it might be bui
, on West Rock. endeavored to make hi
see that If it was built there it would be bui
very securely and not likely to topple owe
and he agreed with me that Westville ha
equally as good a chance from Its remarkab
, natural advantages as another place, so toe
) courage in believing that I had been Il
means of impressing one mind with the i'd
which am SO strenuously endeavoring
get into the whole body polite. If this is
far-away expression please impute it to IL
4 dreamy qualities of modern mind which
= much like former BUNsBY.