Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-02
KELLY TALKS COAL
Says The Remedy at Present Is
 The Wood Supply.
ADVISES CoALMEN TO CUTwooD

Kelly Does Not Want to Talk About
 Who Is Responsible for the High Price of Coal-He Says, However, There is No Need of Worrying While
 Wood is Plenty Speaking on the
 Price of Milk, He Says Price Will Not Go Up at His Store Until No-
 vembcr.
 Thomas Kelly, the baker, talked with
 a Democrat reporter to-day over the wire from his country residence in
 Middlebury, on the borders of Quassa- paug lake. MT Kelly had good deal
 to say about coal wood, milk and
 bread, but for some reason or other
 the conversation was brought to m abrupt termination when the reporter
 asked him who was responsible for
 the condition of the country at the l present time. Before reaching that point MT Kelly said that the advance6 l in the price of milk will not go into | effect in his stores until November l.. and that so far as the scarcity of coal I is concerned there was no need to be alarmed, because the country around | Waterbury is well supplied with wood that needs cutting. He said that he had been yielding Lne axe himself the past few days and expects to have enough fuel in his yard inside of an-
 other week to keep himself and family warm for the winter.
 In answer to a question as to what people would do who had no wood to
 cut, MT Kelly replied that it was up to
 the coal dealers to supply all the wood | fhnir prc,x xya m and ha fhpu
 do it at reasonable prices He thought all the coal men should get together and purchase large tracts of timber land on condition that the contract
 shall expire as soon as the strike is
 over and coal comes down to it's nor
 nial price. If they do this," he said,
 there will be plenty of work for eV- erybOdy heWing 1t down and hauling it into town, and we'll have one of the busiest and most prosperous seasons Waterbury has known ill your time or mine. When 1 was a moulder at the Farrel Foundry and Machine Go thirty years ago or more some of the largest castings that ever left the plant were turned out from metal heated with wood. Why can't the same be done now? As 1 have said, it is the duty. of the coal men to see that there is nD scarcity of wood in the market and wish you would say in the Democrat tonight that if the coal dealers are afraid to try this I stand prepared to put $1 ,OO0 into company for the busi- ness of buying timber land and deliv- ering wood all over Waterbury. I know this can be done to advantage and if the occasion calls for such an undertaking I'm ready to go into it any day. There is no danger of a panic while the shops are running full time. and I hope no one will get scared be- cause coal is scarce. This thing will be righted by and by. and after it is all over we will wonder why we al- lowed ourselves to get worried over it. l can toast my shins just as well be- fore a wood fire as I can in front of coal. My father used to say that wood made the most cheerful fire a family ever gathered about and think he was right"
 Kelly in quired the reporter, fare you going to vote the republican ticket this fall? They have US ln the last ditch now and don't you think 1t tune we struck back while there is a kick in us?''
 This puzzled the baker and the e2- porter thought he saw him blush at the end of the line. Anyway something happened and the conversation ended 14.ere.
 The town is in quahdary to know what to do about wood. There is little heard about coal, for the article ap- pears to be out of the reach of all Su- perintendent Doran and H. w. Atwood are out looking up wood supplies to- day and unless they succeed in getting it those who look to the town for fuel will be In shocking condition. The republican politicians are not saying much about the question, but those who are suffering are doing whole lot of thinking, so that unless things change between now and the opening of the campaign the first stump speak CT that mounts the rostrum in Water bury will get frightful tongue lash- ing. The people will not throw ang coal or wood at him, but they will be apt to give him a piece of their mind. The situation is getting serious and how the party that is responsible for it can face the people at the fall election h,r.1 f<x ,Io,.c