The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-30

cover and appreciate.
In Offering these suggestions it is
hoped they will be received by all as
they are intended, as thoughts for dis
cussion and wise consideration, and
that they may result in some advant-
ages to the chamber and the CONNER
cial and business interests of the city.
At the close of the address it was
order it to be published.
The following standing committees
were announced by the president, after
which Colonel N. G, Osborn was intro
duced and addressed the members on
the Relations of Municipalities to
public CORPORATIONS"
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Chamber of Commerce, 1867.
Ways and means-Charles S. Mersick,
Pierce N. Welch, Edward e. Bradley,
L. Wheeler Beecher, M. Sonnenberg,
Herber C. Warren, T. Attwater
Barnes.
New enterprises-James d. Dewell,
Miles NJ Goodyear, Benjamin r. Eng
lish, John T. Manson, Nathaniel W.
Kendall, Sherwood S. Thompson, Ed
ward l. Atwater, George H. Scranton
Railroad and portation-William
S. Wells, William II. Douglass, l. NJ
Ullman, Charles f. Bates, Abner Hen
dee, Ralph j, Miner, Edgar e. Durant.
Harbor-Charles II. Townshend, Ne
hemiah D. Sperry, George b. Martin,
Henry S. Parmelee, Henry C. Rowe,
Charles l. French, Z. Harris Weaver.
Publications and statistics-Norris G..
Moody, Morris f. Tyler Charles e. Cur
tbs, Cornelius S. Morehouse, Isaac
Thomas.
= Real estate-Willard C. Warren, John
l. Goodrich, Leoni w. Robinson, Sidney
B. Oviatt, Edward C. Beecher, Charles
D. Nicoll, Henry C. Bretzfelder.
Municipal affairs-Charles L. Bald
win, James D. Dewell, jr,, Felix Chill
lingworth, Albert C. Hendrick, Harry
w. Asher, James Reynolds, Francis e.
HUM.
Town and city-Henry T. Blake, Eli
Whitney, jr, Albert B. Hill, Henry F.
English, Frank G. Bushnell, A. McClel-
Ian Mathewson, Lyman II. Johnson.
Banquet-Frank c. futile, John H.
Platt, Wilson H Lee, Loren H. Stan
John H. Phillips.
mbership-Rodmund V. Beach,
Clarence Is. Damn, Joseph c. Johnson.
George w. Lewis Frederick F. Benton
John D. Jackson, Reuben III. Brown.
Nominations-Hen T. Blake, Ed
ward E. Bradley, George S. Barnum,
Henry G. Newton, Charles Kleiner,
Robert Foote, Edward MCGOWAN.
Archaeology William E. Chandler,
Nathan Easterbrook, jr., Franklin II.
Hart.
THE COLONEL'S ADDRESS.
1t is we'll in passing, at this point,
to illustrate by a concrete case, what it
is the duty of the municipality to do
towards protecting the people and their
property from further encroachment by
local corporations 1t is proposed, it
does not matter whether it is so pro-
posed by the street railroad or not, the
street railroads are certainly not averse
to tit is proposed that the municipal
government shall give up as many feet
of the old green as are required to
build thereon a passenger station for
the convenience of the patrons of the
road, who gather at the confiScated
terminal. 1t is unnecessary to add that
the park property was never designed
to be used for any such purpose, and
has become the most characteristic as
we'll as the most historic possession we
have. 1t has successfully been pro-
tected from secular invasion, and it
has for years been an unwritten I'M
derstanding, born and bred in us, that
not only shall no more of 1t be yielded
up for any purpose whatever, but that
which is now occupied should be recov-
cred but the municipality should it
for any reason become vacated. And
yet. now that a condition of affairs has
sprung up there, which is not even re-
motely the fault of the city, it is calmly
proposed to meet the misunderstood
and unnecessary situation, not by fore
ing the local corporations to solve the
problem, but to give them such ex-
traordinary concessions as may solve
the problem for them. Not thought
is given the old axiom, that given an
inch an ell will be taken, nor the ac-
companying conviction that soon more
room will be required to ease a situation
made more worse by a rapidly increas-
ing population and a corresponding in
crease of surface road business at the
point.
1t is not recalled that if the surface
road can receive such extraordi-
nary benefit for the asking, other
necessary public corporations should
enjoy similar right, until the
green is gone; nor have l yet been able
to detect on the part of the municipal
government the slightest disposition to
approach the consideration of the prop
osition from the standpoint of popular
right or opposed to corporate conYen-
fence. I am not convinced that the
1000 votes cast by the patrons of one
of our largest dry goods stores, F. M.
Brown & Co., stands for anything as
against the ten or twenty times 1000
votes that were not cast, one has not
been heard from. Not if every regular
patron of the roads terminating there
voted for the proposed station would
/ it be made clear that the popular will
had spoken. The popular will must be
aseertained in some other way and I'M
til it has been ascertained the duty
of the municipal government is to re-
gard its relationship to local corpora
lions from the standpoint of the people.
1t might be possible, and I am per-
suaded to believe it, that the welfare
of the people would be best conceived
by permitting no more than double
tracks upon any street in the city, by
forbidding the confiscation of terminals
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