The Newtown bee., 1892-08-26

TO MONOpOLIZE,

Webster says, is to engross or obtain by any
 man the exclusive right to trade at any der
 toying at present 8 monopoly of the furniture business at Hawleyviilc. Can't find another
 furniture dealer there. You may hunt from
 the first ward to the fifteenth. from capitol
 hill to the gas works and away down by the
 great frog ponds, and Bakers is the only fur
 niture establishment on the line Just think
 what an immense monopoly, and while the | country rings with angry cries of down With trusts and monopolies, it doesn't work that
 way at all at Flaw wleyville Customers Are | fiocking in from all directions to buy fuTni- ture of Baker, the Monopolist
 silver lining has its ciondv we are in deep sorrow this morning. We hear the s0untl of ming to grow. W Now, g ,tiis is too DO bad. % We V @ came away out here last year, bought land and put orable that we might be able to conduct our business in rural simplicity tor a number of years at least (our optimistic friends said it of pessimistic turn of mind said we might safely count on it till Gabriel hs tse ha Hsrs in dhs uss no9s city lite, we thought we could buy and sell and commune with nature. and not be tronb- led with the demands of the city buyers for polished oak sideboards and mahogany milk ingstools. Why, when we opened business here last September great forest trees could be seen in all directions from our office win. dOWs, towering their stately forms high into the blue ozone, and we could hear the almost seen bears, deer, antelope, book and tree agents, pole cats and wild turkeys within easy rife range Of our front door. This was, however, when Mir Van Amburg and Mir Fore. paugh passed through here and all our able bodied hunters in Danbury attending cir cus. Everything was carried on here in rural and reckless simplicity and ease. New Eng land freight engines dumped their coal ashes in our front yard and squirted red hot water into our flower beds, but now in less than one buildings are going up right on the COW path leading to the north frog pond- City orfiinan- ces have been passed regulating the dump ing of engine fire boxes. Freight conductors swear in low breath. Train haids spit on the floor ot the ladies' waiting room in the 1In are closed. The sound of the saw and ham, mer is heard in no less than five different To- calities vision of q future city looms up before us filled with vile smells from leaking gas pipes or death from live wires or busted water mains. City taxes, absconding cash the face. Some other fellow is liable to come in and start an opposition furniture store and 'run Us into the ground" but no, he dare not do that, tor he knows that we would get out in our might and our linen duster and just mop the floor with him; but until all these ed and the court house moffgaged we are go- ing to keep right on selling furniture at the same old Hawleyville prices. Our stock is growing finer and more select every day. You will not find any before the flood" pat terms in our stock. We do not buy articles of furniture because they are cheap unless they are pretty. We have a large and growing de- them. Call in at our reading room while wait ing for the train and, when you become wea- ry of reading. look ont the front window and 'see the wheels go round."