The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-28
HAMDEN VOTES OTHER WAY
COOPER LINE HELD UP ONCE E
 MOREBUT NOT FOREVER.

Another Meeting Called Five Minutes | After Yesterdays CIosed-Lots of Glow Was 73 to IS Agninst the Appropria- ton of $500.
 | Hamden may not be the liveliest place l on the face of the earth, btu 1t is rap | idly gaining reputation. Hamden is 1 in the throes. The question is whether 1 Cooper Lane shall be repaired.
 It's a long story, but perhaps it's worth while telling. In June, at reg | ular town meeting, it was voted almost 1 unanimously that Cooper Lane was not worth repairing at an expense of $500, | which was asked. Then, in July, there | was another regular town meeting, and | the $500 appropriation was voted unan- | imously, with not murmur on the | other side. Yesterdays meeting was | called to rescind the action of the meet | ing of July 21, and that action was re- scinded by vote of 73 to 7S. Within 1 five minutes after the meeting ad- | journed a petition, properly signed, as 1 required by law, was in the hands or | the selectmen, asking them to call an- | other special town meeting within two weeks, in the hope that the rescind1ng ] of the vote of the July meeting by to- | days meeting may in turn be rescinded
 by vote at the next meeting, now asked for And if that should happen, for the vote Is close then there may | a1N ,nf
 another vote, until doomsday comes along and the various rescinding ele- ments decide to rescind in body ana l declare the whole thing resclnded. When that happens everybody in Ham,
 den will be glad and rejoice greatly. Until 1t does happen Hamden is bound | to be in a broil.
 | Nobody claims that Cooper Lane IS perfect, but from an outside view 1t IS | probably as near so as most country
 roads, where the wagon springs occa- | sionally snap and the driver drops
 couple of outright cusses, mostly aim
 ed at the fiery steeds dragging the
 chariot It doesn't make much differ
 ence whether the load be jug of cider l of years ago, or a load of ensilage. The
 nags get fed as usual when they fin ally get home; and next morning It
 rains again. Then they call another town meeting. So it goes.
 | Yesterdays meeting lasted an hour
 and a half and was interesting from start to finish. John o. Shares was moderator and Town Clerk Cooper tried
 to keep tally. The shops didn't shut l down, because the whole population
 has been losing half day once a month or so, yet there was fair at | tendance. It would hardly do to print
 all that was said on both sides; in fact the speakers would probably repudiate
 most of 1t after a nights sleep They didn't hesitate to express their views
 and there was no mincing. For the
 appropriation for the Cooper Lane inn | provement there were eloquent ad- i dresses, most picturesque and glowing by Messrs. Michael Farrell, Robert O'Connell William H. Hindinger and
 others. Henry Futile led the opposi-
 ton and did it well, as the vote shows
 But this doesn't settle the question by a long shot. There's more trouble ahead much more. Hamden needs l studying. It's whole inside workings 1 don't show up In a flash, or several | flashes. Just wait watch and observe There's plenty more on the way.