The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-08-31

croaches too much on the village Of Pleas.
nntdnfs for the reason that It oompels
tine citizens Of that place to go TO poll
ing place which is too far distant from
their homes TO vote. Also that the inter-
ests material TO the Developments Of Pleas
antdale and South Portland Heights are
inimical. We also think that n the
boundary Of our western ward division
had been drawn so as to have included
the scamman nsighborhood, so called,
and had left Pleasantdale intact and nm
broken. u would have subserved the in
terest Of these sections much better.
There has been too much politics In the
business and IL the lines had been drawn
with an eye 90 the interest Of the respeo-
tive sections. having In view their pres
snt population and prospective develop
ment, the two districts of South Port
land Heights and Pieasantdale would not
have thus encroached upon each other. "
HON. MELVILLE b. FULLER.
ut struck me that there were few
changes which it might be well TO make
My idea would be that the railroad down
here would be permanent and well de-
fined boundary between wards six and
seven.'
''Do you think 1t fair to divide city
SO that one ward has SEQ voters and an
other $50 as nm original starterf"
He replied smilingly: 81 am net divid-
ing the city,"
DIR. ]. w. LOWELL.
~ think the proposed division Of the
city into wards works great injustice
TO this part Of the city. We are getting
not half our representation. Why Look a.
IL. the ward am in has 800 voters and
We can have but ons representative In the
council and yet. here Is another ward laid
out so as to include only i5J voters. This
is contrary TO the spirit OF the charter
and think unfair to tbs voters nf this
section of the city,"
A. A. COLE.
ST seems to me that the committee Of
aldermen after working six months on
this very important matter might have
made a division more in harmony with
the spirit Of the charter. 1t looks as II
one ward was what we might call a shoe
string war'i' as IL contains according to
the statistics given leo voters and down
hers in the most compact and populous
section we have two wards one of which
has 800 voters and the other go. This
does not look right to me-
HENRY WILLARD.
ssrnt,o ,s,..>..ro - usrf..A .hx-1- 49,. -
south side OF Cottage road ought to go in
with ward one, taking in Andrew
Sawyer and Albion Burbank's places,
and thence down Sawyer street to Star
birds new house, thence to Summit street
to Pickett street on a straight line, leav-
ing the Good Templar's hall on the left
and up Pickett to corner of Fort road.
We ought to have those lines and this
would give us voting strength of only
about 225 OF $780,"
GEORGE Y. HENLY.
81 think that the division as made by
the aldermen is unjust, that 1t is vir-
tuai Acknowledgement of the voters of
wards two and three, that the placing of
800 voters in ward two and the placing Of
go in ward three and Of only $50 in
ward five Is in direct violation OF that
section of the charter which calls for an
equal distribution of the votsrs. In fact
this creation of veritabls shoe string
district Is hare faced gerry mander'
inspired no doubt for personal and politi-
cal considerations which CERTAINLY should
have cut no figure in this the crucial