Morning journal and courier., 1893-04-13
STRONG ARGUMENTS USED,

ana was taDleQ.
 At 1:10 the house adjourned to 10:30 to- morrow.
 STRONG ARGUMENTS USED. Attorneys Gallagher, Stoddard and |
 Webb Argue the Merits of the Pro-
 posed Widening of Townsend Ave- |
 nue - No Decision Arrived at -I
 Another Meeting to be Held Next l
 Thursday.
 The third meeting of the board of | selectmen was held last evening to con- sider the proposed widening of Townsend | avenue. Among those present were in addition to all the sslectmen ex-Commo- dore Lewis, L, W. Beeoher, c. G. Kim berly, Owen Groark, F. B. Washburn, E. | v. Lindeley, F. B. Street, J. T. Langdon, Weigand Schlein, Thomas H. Sullivan, W. | J, Atwater, Isaao Mallory, Edward Par cell, Commodore Harris, Livingston Cleaveland, Alderman W. E. Morgan, W. G. Bushnell, Town Counsel Pardee and a number of others.
 The meeting last night was held for the purpose of arguing the momentous ques- tion by the attorneys for both sides. The ball was set rolling by Attorney Galla- gher, who appeared in favor of the pro posed widening. During the course of an able argument he said:
 At town meeting of East Haven it was voted in 1869 that the road be widened from Munn's corner near Fort Hale to Chidsey's corner near the Pequot house. When MT. Beecher made the statement that the road was wide enough, and he had never heard of any plan to widen it until the electric road was proposed, he certain ly was not aware of the facts in this case, when, as can be shown, the town meeting voted to widen this identical road to fifty feet. The Morris Cove road has charter to go through this street, and that was long ago settled, and you seleetmen have ap- proved the layout. The objecto1s claim
 that 1t will cost at least $25, ,000 to widen
 this property. This sum seems to me ridiculous. can't conceive how any such sum could be expended when few years ago 1t only cost about $350 to widen the same length of land. The Morris Cove electric road was chartered in 1889, two years before the Peduot association bought the property, in 1891.
 Messrs. Kimberly, Street, Bennett, Jones, Chamberlain, all bought property
  MT. Beecher's house Is known as the Parker house. The map in the town clerks office calls for fifty foot road. In
 reference to the objection of the great cost $25, 900. A long strip was widened south of the Pequot club house property to fifty feet, and strip of land was taken from Fl. D. Forbes, and yet the expense was | only s350. The claim is absolutely redi- oulous.
 When Attorney Gallagher spoke of the doings of the town meeting in 1869 At torney Webb objected to what he claimed was the introduction of new evidence as he called it, but after few moments dis | cussien the board decided to hear what MT. Gallagher had to say, and he in conse- quence scored the first point.
 After Mr. Gallagher had concluded At torney s. Harrison Wagner argued in be- ] half of the proposed widening. During | the course of long but able argument he said that the property along the route of the road had been enhanced over 8 quarter l of million dollars, and would be as much
 more within the next few years; Take the ! west shore for example. Why have it on | reputable authority, said he, that 150 new houses are to be built there this eeason. Two or three rich men at Morris Cove are standing in the way of 100, 900 who want the road run down there just where 1t is. We will not run the road in the rear of the cottages but will take it up first.
 Attorney Webb, one of the counsel for the contestants, argued that the main point at issue was whether public necessity de- manded the widening of the road. This
 he argued, had not been shown nor in his
 opinion did it exist.
 Attorney Stoddsrd followed for the re- monstrants. Duringan eloquent argument | he said: l earnestly protest against the manner in which this case has been argued | by the petitioners, and my clients also feel I that they are more than justified in mak-
 ing their complaint. Their property has
 been trespaseed upon, their interests in- vaded, their protests treated with contempt. My clients are not to be deprived of their rights, and I am amazed that the counsel of the private corporation known as the Morris Cove road has had the temerity- yea, may say insolencs-to come here | and tell you that the road will be put down irrespective of the interests of my | clients. I am amazed at Attorney Galla- gher, who has spent the time he should
 have been arguing the case in making as-
 sertions and not in discussing the evidence, Even If, as claimed, such 8 vote was taken | at the East Haven meeting to widen the road, no further action was ever taken on the matter and the road has not been widened.
 Now what is the issue in the cases The real issue Is whether certain DOT tions of the cove arc to be widened for the pecuniary consideration of 8 syndicate. We have the railroad company itself,
 through it's president, for an authority that there is no necessity for the widening of the road. You have no right to spend $s5, ,000 to augment the profits of this private corporation. My clients are now, and always will ba, ready to meet public convenience. The petitioners have brought four witnesses here who said that they wanted the road to go in front
 of the cottages, and yet two of
 these four had previously signed a petition for the road to go in the rear of tho cottages, principally on account of the
 great danger to children playing on the
 front road. The preponderance of evil dence all seems to be in favor of the rear road.
 At the conclusion of Judge Stoddard's argument 1t was voted to hold another meeting next Thursday evening, when At torney Hotchkiss will close the arguments for the rAYn natranta and Aftornov na1lo