Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-18
BAKER KELLY IN TOWN.
Talked on Doctors Bills, Fire
 Houses, High Meats.

He Is Pleased at Mayor Kilduff's Ac-
 tion in Vetoing the Fire House Reso-
 lution-Advises People to Use Fresh
 Eggs Until Beef Comes Back to
 Earth Again.
 Thomas Kelly, the baker, dropped into town to-day from his farm Ill Middlebury and talked freely with few friends in Exchange place regard ing smallpox, farming and municipal affairs We quote few remarks from the baker as follows:
 T don't care to discuss the smallpox situation. But l might say that I'm not surprised to learn that there is trouble between the city officials and the doctors over the price which they should receive for their services. This question should have been settled at the beginning and then there could have been no misunderstanding. If l put man to work without some un- derstanding regarding wages there is sure to be dissatisfaction on pay day. With regard to vaccination, I would say that if it be q safeguard against smallpox the state should make 1t compulsory. but if 1t is being done for fashions sake it should be stopped right off. 1 believe in it because the doctors say it is q good thing, but I think it is a bad plan to have whole family vaccinated at the same time. I had q terrible arm myself, but if it helps to keep smallpox away from my family and others with whom I come in contact l shall feel amply repaid for what have suffered with it. But l submit that the state should pass up- on the question.
 There were more blows bought and used this spring than there have been in many years. Land that never be- fore yielded anything but scrub and skunk cabbages is being poughed and I look forward for an abundant crop of all kinds of farm produce in Water bury and surrounding towns.
 The expense of living at the present time is high, but I hope to see the price of some things come down this fall. Meat and sugar are controlled by trusts, and yet sugar dropped five cents hundred during the past week and meat went up a cent I account
 
 because we are becoming great meat eaters. When I was a boarder in Brooklyn years ago We had meat but once day. If q boarding house keep CT should try to conduct house on that plan to-day nobody would stay long in her place. Besides this the population of the country has in- creased recently at the rate of 22 per cent, while the increase in beef is but II per cent and the cattle that are be- ing slaughtered in Chicago to-day av- craze only 1,007 pounds as against l,ll7 pounds in the past This is due to the great demand which calls if into the market earlier than usual Sugar is coming down This is ex- plained by the fact that we are pro- ducing it in enormous quantities. In 1880 our sugar product amounted to but little over SS.000 tons, while in 1901 1t reached 417,0OO tons.
 T haven't heard of anything. that Mayor Kilduff did in years that pleased me better than his action in vetoing the recommendation of the board of aldermen authorizing the erection of fire house in Brooklyn at an estimated expense of S2O.OOO | regarded that as one of the most fool lsh things that the city government has talked of in years. There are more cubic feet in the engine house We nave there now than there are in the mousse near City hall park III New York city. and cannot understand why anyone should think of building another, If might be all we'll enough to % ahead ana put up handsome fire house n Brooklyn if we had nothing else to do With our money, but, everybodt knows that this is not the case. They tell us We are not paying the money because the city is borrowing it and paving in- terest This policy has left many man without home and has been the means of sinking municipalities so deep into debt that the small rate pav- CTS had to go to the wall and the manufacturers and business men felt it, too. We can't afford to spend all our money in taxes. If they had n horse in that house we have in Brook lyn that would be all would be needed there for the next ten or fifteen years. and the money they want to put into building a new house and equipping it could be used for something else I hope to see Mayor Kilduff sustained in the position lie has taken in this fire house question.
 Say" said the baker turn ing to Democrat reporter. came near being killed yes terday~ on the way to Middlebury My horse went down i'll culvert and was thrown ten feet in the air tel ephoned to MT Kelley about 1t. If you see him will you tell him that I wasn't hurt but the horseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee oee hurt, but the horse is lai dup. I don't intend to sue the city
 '"rhere'll be barrelfuls of eggs every place this year and the dealers can af- ford to sell them at a price which will put them within reach of all. So that people who think meat too expensive can fall back on eggs. The doctors say that there is as much nutriment in fresh egg as Ill q pound of meat. If this be true q man is folish to pay 9 or 30 cents for steak while he can get dozen fresh eggs for half that price,
 At this juncture the baker got his eye on the city clock and seeing the hands pointing towards the noon hour, ee Ia, .l~ ~t.,T 41,nf