The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-05-29
EAST HAVEN'S DILEMMA.
A GREAT CONTROVERSY Still UN-
SETTLED.
No Site Selected Yet for the New School
Building in East Haven.

DENT S. r. Avis, Frederick A. Belts
John t. Manson amid Walter ]. Conner
accompanied by Secretary Horace Day
were in East HAVEN fast week ant
gave a hearing ALT the TOWN. 1haal aus q
board of arbitraItors, inl relation ITO the
various proposed Sites for the Union
school distlfct1s new school building.
Miss Lottie e. Street. Grove j. Tut
tile, chairman; e. Gilbert and Fl. Wal
ter Chidsey, members of the East Ha,
ven school board of visitors, were pres
ent aa a committee of conference
G. w. Bradley of East Haven, also
a member of said board and It's sec
rotary addressed the committee at
length, giving a statement of the origin
of the controversy, and advocating thai
the selection be made out of three sites
of the fourteen THAT had been conshd-
cred.
The hall was WE'LL filed with East Ha-
ven citizens Some extracts from MI
Bradley's remarks are given, as Chey
are Of general interest:
The late j. Woodward Thmpson, a
town BORN Citizen, amid who died Aug
UhJB IL, 1884, IeQL ny uluS urFst WHY e'uiSA
Testament. all the rest and residue of
his eatate to the Union school school
district of dlhe town of East Haven, for
tfhe purpose of erecting a public schpol
blIllding-for the use of said district,
and tits public school children forever.
This muniflcent bequest was contld-
tyionIal.
First-To be accepted by said district
Ia. ~, ~ 11unf nf tf1ka
buildIlng must be apprved by the exec
ldtor of the win, Hon. L. B, NORRIS.
Third-The building must be erected
I'm three years from the date of THE
testator's DEATH.
The rest and residue of said es-
tate will probably amountt-qlo doubt
sess THAN Mr.. Thompson expected-wifth
accrued interest, to $780, The esti-
mated expenditures for this enterprise,
and resources of THE district, indepenid
emit of amy tlistrict tax, cam be tabulalted
ais follows:
The cost of the site. 1900
Total cost of building ............ $3.50
Cost of everything connected
Herewith. ....... ...... 2,l75
Total. :. :. :. :. :. :. :. .......$12,925
Thompson bequetst ...............$ $500
Sale of site and building ON High
street.. =. =. :. ;. :. ;. -. -. :. $50
Sale of site and school house in
'front.' Of the park. ........... IT'S
Deficiency to be paid by the dis
trtct.. ...1............,.. 5000
Total -. .,...,....~...,.......$ 12, 925
1t cam be incidentally stated that
There are two claEases of prices to land
In East Haven. One is prospective
speculat tive and holding price; the other
this probable amount ut Will bring ur-
der the red flag or at auction
1T cam be truly stated THAT ait this
Time THAT there Is mot a front foot of
aand I'M East Haven that will bring
/ over $12, unless lit be directly IN front
of the postofficel; that lis when sold at
forced sale.
I This condition of things should be
\ taken into account after the fixing OF
the site, and I'M THE payment of the
Same lin conformity to 1.-THE precise Ian
guage of THE LAW, which says shall
I be "a just and reasonable cornpenisa-
1tion." The present legislature has
'authorzed the district to issue bonds
\ for the payment of the balance of this
iexpendhture in amount Mot to exceed
I $40, 900, alt a. rate of annual interest
OF 5 per cent. or less.
Right here 1t cam be stated THAT many
din the district labor under two griev-
GUS errors. First, that in the ael4c-
tlon OF "a site for a public school
building 1T ifs absolutely necessary to
bargain for tII1e same, ait THE time the
Tchoice of location lis made and also
athtat Individual interests should of a
necessity be consulted. Second, a
lschOolhouse, MO naltter what it's pre-
iltenItIions may be, or how costly, with
|everything according to advanced Ideats,
Fand all Things as they should be "up |
to dajte," is nevertheless am eyesore, a |
nuisance, amid Ia serious detrimenlt to the |
value of real property immediately aid |
E5oinirig. I'm country places and saibur- |
Pban villages friends and relations must |
be pleased and politicians amid voters |
are frequently governed by personal
bind selfish motives. Many know by ex-
perfefnce of THE thine when 1.-THE oa1se-stoa'y
Fred or yellow sdhoolholise stood by the
|wayside-as formerly alt Foxon and
South F1nd--withollt any enclosure, and
'phe dilapidated outbuildingsl more ssignd-
hcaInIt, alnG suggestive than the main
IStructure and a constant menace to
Rfecency. THE school children always
IN the highway when ait recess, and
ftonttnually annoying the neighbons by
General trespassing
Ii The Unfon school district, once the
|1.1astt and Center districts, is contiguous
With the New Haven amid Branford
Town boundary lines-unless the Cover
4 Tor SaltolnstIaIll farm be "a single excep-
Raony-and extends about one mile north
liz the main thoroughfare, and the same
Instance south. 1t contains ain the pub
\ Ic buildings I'M THE towr--wilt.h the
Exception of the new schoolhouse in
He North district, two church buildings,
. tewtown hall, chapel, postoffice and two
S'ncbelnt schoolhouseA but mott the orig
lal ONES. 1T HAS the bulk of the wealth.
II nd population THE at1nIIal town tax
tlre New Haven Water company lis
Apout $500, which represents considera-
le property of itself. In the Hast two
ihoolholises which are used for only
IEo grades theme are nlinelty4twIo seaIts
lth am average attendance-the two
gather-of about sixty pupils. The
ange from the old order of tIhings is