The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-19
ANNEXATION NOT THE WORD.

AIN NNGAAIlON NIrI It1H WcISi1' A
 No city could have loftier ambition than Hartford entertains, as expressed by esteemed i"Times" last night:
 Formal announcement is made of the extension of the third rail line on the New England railroad from New Brit ain to Bristol. This means 5000 or 10000 more added to the population of this center. The new line will be opened on April. l.. We shall be annexing Water bury next"
 And yet, if the noble aspiration of the Capital city toacuddle up closer to this town ' through third-rai processes should' be realized it would be as inac- curate to describe the result as the an- nexation of Waterbury to Hartford as 1t would be to designate it the annexa- tion of Hartford by Waterbury. When a brave man and a fair woman go to the altar and promise to love and cherish each, other till death do em part, the proceeding is union. a marriage, and 1t cannot be said that either of them an ,nexes the other But, in the expression of unbridled ecstacy, language is not used with scientific precision and the Times" may well be pardoned, in its choice of words, for exercising a poetic license which it would not think of em- ploying in the cold-blooded treatment of the currency question.
 But if, in the fruition of the fondest hopes of our neighbor. a union of Waterbury and Hartford should be effected under the compromise name of either, Waterford or Hartbury, each party to the contract would round out the other and the result would be the ideal municipality of America. Wa terbury could go to Hartford for pleas ure and Hartford could come to Water bury to trade. Hartford has the larger number of ancestors but Waterbury has the more hustlers. Hartford has been growing the longer, but Waterbury the faster. Hartford has a gilded dome; Wa terbury has copper bottom. Hartford is the political capital of the state, while Waterbury is it's industrial capital. The stream on which Hartford is located is the more snavigable and the river on which Waterbury is situated is the more beautiful; while together the Connecti- cut and the sNaugatuck supply every thing needful in the line of river art. Waterbury has no such insane retreat as Hartford has, while Hartford is the pronIetor of no such establishments as are vsituated in Waterbury. Hartford insurance policies and Waterbury clocks
 and watches have marched abreast in following the equator. While Water
 bury has the fewer newspapers, Hart ford has no Republican" While
 Greater Hartford has no Lake Quassa- paug Greater Waterbury has no chutes. While Hartford's streets are the muddier and nastier on occasion
 Waterbury's are the dustier in season. Waterbury has no New Britain among | it's suburbs, while Hartford has no Waterville in it's outlying districts. Waterbury has no puperior polo and | football teams while Hartford has the better baseball nine
 If there's anything that is lacking in the inventory of Hartford's assets. the deficiency is supplied by Waterbury, | and if Waterbury needs anything to
 round it out, Hartford can fill the va cancies If the municipal union which | the Times loosely but joyously calls annexation can be effected how mag nificent will the product Waterbury Republican.