The Newtown bee., 1900-11-30
LOOKING ON TEE BRIGHT EIDE OF THE
 PICTURE.

Little by little the great rubber trust is vacating the town. As the machinery
 is shipped to the company's Passaic fac
 sories. the workmen, such as are desira-
 ble, are invited to go with the business.
 And thus the payroll ia gradually being
 reduced. Only . small per cent of the
 50 or 60 men who have left the place up
 to this time, continue in the employ of
 the trust. Some of them have gone to
 other companies in the same business,
 and others have found different kinds of
 occupation, in Bridgeport and other cities nearby.
 The upper factory, in which the re. claiming process was carried on, has been closed several weeks. The work of pack ing, moving, and closicg up at the main factory may not be completed for weeks to come.
 Meanwhile the business and social changes in the community, incidental to this exodus, are going on with deepening interest. Families are forced to leave the only homes they have ever known the Bocial circle is broken; friends are separated; marriage is postponed, or hastened; children are taken and the parents left; houses are deserted, sold, or rented; and some in their declining years and themselves lonely and desolate. It is time ef sadness and perplexity with many, no doubt, though there may be littls or no actual suferirg in store for any perhaps. This is . great country, business in general is good, and those who-are sober, reliable, and willing to work will soon find employment, homes, new relations, and easily adjust ihem- selves, to the changed conditions.
 '1 Those who remain will perhaps suffer most. Every removal means the reduc- tion of trade, and the cutting down of business in general. The pews in the churches being vacated their means of support will also be withdrawn. Tho schools will become smaller, and if pos- sible there will be less concern for public education. As rule, the less people in 6 place the more difficult 1t is to promote any sort of enterprise for the popular benefit. There is an element of enthusi- asm in numbers. There is no denying the fact that . sense of loneliness is growing upon us. It has, indeed, been creeping over us for several years. Some of us have realized that 1t was inevitable, and must come. Natural retributfon has at last paid us . visit. We have Killed | ho lof what shall we do now?
 But, there is another and brighter side to this experience. Bad as 1t seems, 1t is not all evil. Indeed, in the long run 1t | may be all for the best, for those who go and those who stay. Most of the fam flies which move to cities and larger towns will in all probability find them selves in better conditions of life. The children will e1joy better and larger school privileges; the young men and young women may, if they choose, enter into higher and wider social circles, such as will afford them many advantages to be desired: greater opportunities for promotion and success in the business world; and many means of self-improve- ment. Who can doubt that 1t is better to reside in we'll governed city where law and order prevail, and sin is rebuked, and vice and crime promptly punished, than in Q lawlese, degraded community, in which corruption wins more than honestyP
 And 30 the exodus in itself may prove to be . manifold pleasing to everyone who has any desire to improve his situa- tion and prospects; while the effect which will gradually come upon the whole town by one means or another, may mark the beginning of new era in its history.-[O. o. Wright.