The Newtown bee., 1901-07-26
FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
BROOKFIELD.
SIGMA ON THE SIDEWALK.

BRooKFIELD.
 SIGMA ON THE SIDEWALK.
 In the cosmogony of the world, be- fore our globe became an oblate sphe- roid, or flattened at the poles, in con- sequence of it's rapid and constant whirling on it's axis, it's equatorial belt flew at the rate of more than a thous- and miles per hour and it's centrifugal force was so great that it's polar dia- meter became shortened during it's plastic condition about dozen geo. graphical leagues. This brought It's polar surface one half that distance nearer to the central core of the plan ct, than any other portion of the tenn perate and tOrrid zones and conse- quently all streams of running water on the surface would naturally and in- evitably seek the equatorial regions and flow southerly in the Northern hemisphere and in the opposite direc- tion in the Southern.
 Ages before Columbus was born or any Norsemen or Vikings of old Scan- dinavia had discovered or visited Ice land or the American continent or any of it's adjacent islands, waters of Hud- son bay and perhaps the overflow of the Great Lakes forming the St Law renee outlet to the sea, ran down the, valleys of the Hudson and HOuSatOnic rivers, having the Catskills and Palis- ades range on it's right bank and Lov- CTS Leap projection in southwestern New England, northeast of the Brook field border on the left bank of the great water course to the ocean.
 In after ages the superficial con- formation of the earth had become so modified ho af ifc To flow northward, like thes McKensie and the great Yukon rivers and the more tranquil current of our own Still river, courSing toward the north star and the inflOwing streams of Hudson bay which all empty into the A tlantic near the 6Oth degree of North latitude just beyond the northeastern limit of the U. s. A.
 Now Brooktield sands on dry ground on the right bank of the Hou- satonic river, with it's boundary limits respectively 50 and 65 miles in an air line from the cupola of the City hall of the great metropolis of the new world, access and egress to and from more than 20 times daily, Sundays ex, cepted. It occupies the foothills and valleys on line between the White Mountains of New Hampshire and the Blue Ridge Range of the Middle Att lantic States. The highest peaks of either range, though covered with snow in the sunshine, are rarely visi- ble to the naked eye, except perhaps from the giddy heights of our new sidewalk, so long in construction, and yet only completed where it is finish ed, but when the spectator sufficiently shifts his horizon or uses long dis tance telescope from a balloon eleva- tion in clear weather, their outlines of figure and form distinctly appear, with or without their sparkling crowns of snow.
 The sidewalk conceived and con- structed by the Village Improvement society was begun in the 4O2d year after the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus and his gang of adventures of the Latin race from the Mediterranean states. Nothing like it before was ever seen in these parts until this enterprise was under l taken. Seven long years, at intervals, have been employed in it's cOnstruc- tiOn thus far. How much longer will be required to complete the enterprise, heaven only knows, but seldom reveals such cOnundrumS for us. Its present completed length is about three-fifths of a mile or more, exactly 311O feet and four inches, with an average width of five feet, shrinking in spots to accommodate rocks and trees from three to 13 inches, but always giving passage room for those who kindly wait while they tread the new path way.
 | It contains l5, $50 square feet of sur face measurement, laid in mixture of asphaltum, sand and gravel or con- crete rubble with blue stone or gran | ite pavement at street crossings and l driveways, with oval central rise from one to one and half inch elevation above the edges of the walk to prevent puddles and wash of pathway accord ing to its ascent or depression in con- formiUy with the surface ground and rock or swamp near which it runs.
 Should profile perspective of the walk be taken as it winds and wanders around rocks or trees,' up and down, in the vain search for some one, or per haps for all of the cardinal points of the compass in the sky, or perhaps for the ideal straight and narrow path'' that looks upward and onward beyond "this vale of tears" and thus avoid the allurementS of the "primrOse road that leads to the everlasting bonfire J
 BeantOwn is found to be situated on the earth'S surface just seven miles from the Brookfield Bungalow, whose enterprising proprietor has already jOurneyed two and half times around our planet and when out of his bunga- low is sometimes seen in Beantown on the hill overlooking the new Court house and County jail. This bunga- low man, at his sole expense, paved with stone the new sidewalk confront ing his Brookfeld property, and the premises of the heirs at law of the late Henry B. Hawley and of Mrs J Julia SkidmOre(w whose front yard gate opens on the acme of the sidewalk)have fol- lowed MT Houseman's example asking no odds or funds from the treasury of the said Improvement society. "Let your light so shine,' etc.
 l Your scribe has been assured that up to this time the total sum expend- ed for this improvement of the village sidewalk will not greatly exceed 5000, not dime of which has been collected or imposed as tax on the people. This amount, however, does not in- clude the expenses of the missionaries l employed in the outlying districts of ] the town where sidewalk extension has been projected, especially on the northerly side of Stone Arch street and Broadway in lrOnWOrkS, also Rail- road way to St Joe's church in Dublin precinct But Danbury avenue must wait until East and West IronwOrks school districts are consolidated into an academy or select school for that