The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-29
WALLTNGFORD.

tI large number of our taxpayers and
 others as follows: The committee ap- pointed at the recent borough meeting
 to visit the legislature on the matter is
 working in all manner of ways to carry it's point in Hartford, but as yet ap-
 parently has done nothing toward en- Tightening its followers on several
 points of the electric light question,
 which will be found to be important ones. should the matter ever reach that
 stage where the question of cost comes l in. The cry has been, i've must have
 electric ligEts, but not one out of | twenty have stopped to consider that
 the expense of the luxury will prove an
 important factor when it comes to be | considered and at the present time
 the borough's finances are not in con-
 dition for an outlay of several thou
 sand dollars for a luxury. The pro- Jectors of the scheme have been careful from the outset not to present any es- tdmate as to the cost that will entail
 upon the borough should their efforts
 be successful, as 1t might have dampen- ed the ardor of the 320 or so that were so eager to vote on the question, to say nothing of the l ,000 others who did not turn out to vote either one way or the other The committee has tried l through it's official organs of the press, to make the outside world believe that there is an almost unanimous demand | Of the citizens and taxpayers for cleo tric lights, to be conducted by the borough, and that the matter of cost does not enter into the question, but the impression Is not a fair one, as there are many of our more thoughtful citi- zens who are not so easily daged by I4electric lights and prefer to look a little below the shining surface into the real common sense depths, and go alittle more careful, as will be found when the matter of appropriation comes up, if 1t ever does. There is no question but that the citizens would like to see the borough of Wallingford lighted by electricity, but do they want to pay the large amount that 1t will necessarily cost at this time, or a year later2 There seems to be a desire on the part of the leading lights of the committee to keep the public from the real facts which must necessarily come out later. There are many who suppose that if the com mittee's scheme succeeds that the gas company, which holds the franchise to light the borough granted by the legis- lature, will simply be thrown overheard wlthout ceremony, and that will be the end of it, but do not have the slightest idea that the borough will have to pay anything toward compensating the stockholders who have invested their money in what has proved a losing in vestment from the first, for the loss of their plant. There will be a grand awakening some of these days, and those who are now trying to fly their kites 50 high will come down from their perch, and it will not need electric lights to illuminate sufficient to see matters in different light from what they now view the question. That per sonal interest is more the feeling that actuates the principal movers than is the greater interest professed in the borough's welfare is plainly apparent, and it is only matter of a short time when the fact will become more appar- ent, and many are watching and wait ing for that day to come.
 OTHER NOTES.
 Allen Sawyer has sold to the Con solidated Raiload company between four and five acres of land on the south plains. The Consolidated road has also purchased tract of land nearly a half mile wide reaching from the railroad to the Quinnipiac river on the west side of the track to be used for the sand.
 The. fish law on the lake is off on Monday, April l, as is also the trout law on all the streams not controlled by private parties.
 A meeting of the American Protec- tive league will be held this evening in the ante room in town hall building.
 George F. Cruttenden, recently from the Unitarian church in Springfield, Mass, has been engaged as organist | at the Congregational church.
 Henry Thompson, the pedestrian, who | is en route around the world and struck | here Tuesday, has got around a large | stock of Wallingford whiskey and yes terday was still in town. He claims to have been arrested about twenty-six times since leaving San Francisco.
 The roads outside of town are in ter rible condition, owing to the frost com ing out of the ground. One of Ar mours big wagons from Merlden got stuck in the mud to the aXles up near the culvert in Yalesville and the horses were unable to get it out and were unhitched and the wagon left in the mud.
 Mrs. Emma Pritchard of Church | street has made complaint that Mrs. OKeefe, who lives in the same house, has thrown dirty water on her children. The case was up before Judge Hub bard yesterday and was continued until morning.
 Rev. MT. Gessner of West Haven will preach in St. Paul's church this even- ing.
 John Hill, who works at the depot, is the proud parent of 8 ten pound boy, born yesterday.
 Yesterdays gale churned out most Il of the ice on the lake and but little | is left about in the coves and creeks.
 Reserved seats for Ullie Akerstrom in "The Sultan's Daughter" in the l, opera house Monday evening are on sale at Pixley's.
 Report says that R. Wallace & Sons works begin running on eight hour time on Monday.
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