Middletown transcript., 1892-12-15
THE 4 DIRECTOR. /"
NO PLACE FOR HIM IN MID
DLETOWN.
improvements That Have Been Made
BY Our Town Fathers Our
Man About Town Tells
Some Pious Truths. ~

Man About Town Tells
/ Some Pfous Truths. ~
| 1t is enc of the easiest things In the
world to file objections, but it is not
always trivial task to sustain them.
We remember to have once heard q
lawyer, who was engaged in the trial
of cause, interpose objections to the
admission of testimony that was about
to be offered by counsel on the other
side, when the Court asked him to
assign ground for his objection. He
answered, :" I simply object" The
counterpart of the lawyer is to be
found in every community around
which gather that considerable class
of people who oppose everything and
| propose nothing. Ii new enterprises
be proposed looking to the employ
ment of the idle and the founding of
new homes, they simply object il
system for improving the highways
is suggested, they simply object; if
the Board of Health aJmonish them
that their back yards are not as tidy
as they might be, they simply object;
if they are notified that modern
Civilization does not admit of their
keeping hog pen under their neigh
boris dining room window, they say
their most sacred rights are infringed,
and when the mite box is handed
around the bearer is obliged to make
return-of "nulla bona" Thanks
to Providence and advancing civiliza-
tion, the objector has not been very
numerous in Middletown of late, and
we therefore have been getting some
pretty solid improvements. While
part of our citizens have been en-
gagged in doing all in their power
looking towards extending the in
dustrial interests of our town, and
another part of our townsmen, for
the past six months, have burst the
bounds Of ordinary ambition and
have sought to save the State and
Nation, our Town Fathers have
simply " sawed wood and said moth
ing" During the past year our
Town Commissioners have started
out on new departure, which if
followed up, will surely make our
streets such as are not to be excelled,
and our town, instead of being a mud
hole for six months in the year, will
be thing of beauty and something
we may all be proud Of. Besides the
greater convenience and comfort we
derive from streets so constructed
as to be easily kept clean, we have
the additional benefit coming from
corresponding enhancement to the
value of our property, and also
greater security against infectious
diseases, for, we feel sure that mud
roads such as our main thorough
fares have hitherto been composed of,
can not fail to breed disease. The
work which our present Board of
Town Commissioners has SO well
begun should be systematically car
ried on till every street in our town
is as good as the splendid road which
we now have extending from Rail-
road Avenue to Cochran Square.
The improvements to our water
supply, which are now near compile
ton, deserve the hearty commenda-
tion from all our people. We believe
that we will now have supply of
water that will be adequate to any
emergency, besides the additiona.
security we will feel from the fact
that the water comes from a well so
deep as to be beyond any probability,
if not possibility, of infection. There
fore, my fellow townsmen, if, when
you come to pay your town tax this
year, you find it ''pretty Steep" don't
look savage at the collector, for he
is modest and timid youth, and re-
member that kind words linger long
in the memory of the young. Also
don't "cussn the Town Father for
he is a man of burdens and many
cares, and his Office is without per-
quisiLes; and man who will hold
office without perquisites is composed
of the stuff that make martyrs and
heroes. We are not composed of that
kind Of stuff-and in this connection
we are remined of mighty and
solemn army of men who have re-
Gently seen both Office and perquisites
vanish like the the golden hues of
sunset that fade with the close OF
day." But never mind, my partners
in distress. There is joy in the
thought of a better day a'dawning.''
Recurring again to the Town
Father, remember that while you
and / go scott free after our own
business or that of our neighbor, or
after our Sunday girl, the brain of
the Town Father is added with
Macadim and Telford roads. water
works, sewerage, sanitary precautions
Electric lights and police regulation
and In this connection we are re-
mined that the Town Fathers have re-
Gently discharged Duncan from the
police force. Thank God for this
This is a fitting climax
70 noble career. Hats off to the
Town Fathers
MAN ABOUT Town.