Middletown transcript., 1897-08-07
(Communicated.)
STRANGE HOW THINGS DU HAP.
PEN.

kinder got tn moralizin lately, and in
lookin back over ther years that hev gone
by, hit makes me think hit is strange in
deed how things do happen, hit is not CRATE
menny years ago thet this beautiful little
town wuz Lit up with Koal Oil, and good
menny times hit wnz not Lit up, such wus
the force nv the wind and circumstances
and then come the lectrick lite an hit WIZ
CRATE Improvement over the Oil lite, hit
did not blow out and we didn't hev tu hire
man to go round and lite the lamps nor
blow them out, which wuz CRATE savin
| tn tax payers, and tn the nuns legs and
shoe leather looking at it in ole way, but
we he'd tu pay purity stiff fur the change
and didn't always git what we had paid
| fur either, but lookin' at hit frum another
way, hit wus benefit tn us, in the exper-
| fence we gained which resulted in the town
putting in plant nv hits own, an thet
takes me back tn the other branch of pub
lie safety an convenience, the water supply
if there is anything thet has been kussed
an discussed more then any other thing.
hit has been the doings of our commishun-
ers in regard tn the works and speshially
the deep well question, at no time frum hits
commencement wuz any credit given tn
the men who hev labored hard fur the in
terest of the town in getting an adequit
supply nv water, yet they kept rite on
an did the best they Good, an furthermore
after a keerful examinin of the Reports
~ G,,I sr,t
ceived the first red cent fur ther trouble,
wonder if these people who could hev
managed the thing so much better. |
air capable Nv managing their own |
private affairs as well as these men hev |
our publick business? Hit is tru ther |
wuz CRATE deal Nv mummy spent before . |
the thing waE a suckcess. and now |
comes another blow thet will almost kill !
the Croakers, we hev got to hev more
water in order to run another pump, SO if |
anything shood happen tn the pump we
got, we have another one tn fall back on |
Immediately without emmy break in the
supply Nv water tn the konsumers, and we
hev konsumers an they pay ther water
rents an are entitled tn receive the water
awl the time now the Croakers sez, yes
"got tn heE another well an about time
this wun is dun well hev to hev another
wun." think human critters air certain,
ly unreesonable-sumu Nv them-I wonder
if these squeelers ever stop tn think nv
the good the lite and water hez bin tn US.
What better poleece can we hev than the
lectric lites on our streets, could the town
be as well protected at the same cost as the
lites? No, and the growler whu says so
duze'nt know what he is talkin about, agin,
wood 'ent the rates NV insurance be good
deal higher if we he'd no water? just in
quire around little, Mr.. Croaker, an you'll
git your answer. An then agan', duz the
water plant owe the Town any
Thing? No, sir! Kin any man say trooth-
fully thet the disastrous stable fire of
November 1892, could hev been subdued, {
the most valuable properties
and goods in our town saved, if ther had
not bin emmy water plant. No. he cannot, /
he plant paid for hitself three times, and
loes not owe the Town penny, thet is
,nly one of the cases thet the water plant
lez to its credit. As the Post says "there
ire others" there is this moral tn my essay,
We accept things after they cum to US, and
value them in menny cases according tn
here cost, yet we accept them, but the
,roaker expects sumthing for nothing, /
Ience il always disappointed, yet the world !
moves on and we wonder indeed that it is !
trainge how things du happen. Ia
LEW NArTIcK. Z