Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-23
THE NOODBURY TRO EY
Surprises Sprung at Laa Hear
 ing in Hartford.

Mistake-Baker Thom$ Gives
 His Views of the Prop had.
 The advocates of 8 tr Ad be. tween Woodbury and W v had an inning in Hartford and tried to convince the pd nat be that such a road would b t ben. eft to the towns mentie l that nothing should be done nt the company from proceed h the work as soon as possible Wood bury and Waterbury com e cor poration back of the proje some what surprised at the oI thar developed against theil anC scarcely know what to $ Ut MI Whittemore's position on .stion MT Whittemore was repro led by Judge. Root. The company abou POO petitions including alma hll thu principal residents of Wood V, bu after the hearing got started found that many of them signed Femon strance against the plan sub ted b, the company which calls fol rout, along the highway. The otheA etitio1 wanted to have them keep u En pri vate property, but it seems tYt tht signers to this document didn' Rlnder stand what they were doing wlNn the, appended their signatures to tN docu ment and some of them, notablyf1 S. Atwood and Dr Bristol calh for ward to say so. What they supposed they were signing was a remonRranc against the company putting Nils il the travelled part of the higl ant a request that the line be kep 1.-the side of the street. It seems neg lected to read the petition yer, common mistake with man eopl who like to accommodate eVV bod, who comes along with an appNatio1 for anything.
 Thomas Kelly of this city vi on of the speakers MT KellXa yer, much in favor of the road a1 nsid CTS it something everybody VI S al interest in Waterbury sho hel along. To representative q E pa per Mir Kelly said to-day that oul bring lots of patronage here Mid dlebury, Woodbury, Hotel 7ille Southbury, South Britain the places.
 MT Kelly was asked what h had that any great number 0 opl 1 from those towns would come e t trade if they had trolley servid bye and above what drops in now.
 ''The best way l know of i'd $ho, 1 you how that would work" h ai(
 IS to call your attention to the II Abe of people who come to WaterburI o d their shopping since we got the Nile down the road compared to wha hse | to come prior to that time. Nau E1c is better equipped for trading pu bse than any of the places I have hle attention to and yet large mum C I its citizens prefer to come to te, bury to do their buying. What so have we to doubt that the same lin would not be true between herS n 1 WOodbury if they could get hero m l return on the trolley? And ther1 Rl other reasons. I think if you Id
 up you will find that at least 90 s loads of hay come to Waterbury E t rounds of the year from Canada other places and not less than 4OV loads of potatoes. There is en land in the district I'm talking d with Litchfield included to grow
 the hay and potatoes Waterbury n 1 and which at the present time an( ] years past is yielding little else 1 huck1eberries and skunk cabbage
 we had trolley service through | towns there would be no trouble iI
 curing good labor because in orde | work there it would not be necessar
 live out of Waterbury if one did
 want to. For my own part should | glad to be in a position to SOW
 acres of potatoes this year if I cd get help, but I can't. Why, if I
 ceeded in getting the seed in ground there is no likelihood whatdS
 that could employ men enougbN
 keep the bugs off the stalks and
 crop would be a total loss. The
 thing might be said with referend
 hay and other crops that Connec
 is capable of producing and we
 be out Of the box we are in to-day
 something is done towards woi
 the farms all through the outlying
 tricts of the city. I'm surprised G
 representative of Waterbury at HN
 ford have not been in support of fl
 trolley matter"
 Discussing the question further, i
 Kelly claimed that if the business m
 of Waterbury want to increase tn
 patronage he knows of no better W
 of doing it than by helping out 1
 proposed trolley road to Woodbu
 In an off-hand way he felt justified
 making the statement that if the TO
 was in operation it would bring 1O,(
 new shoppers into Waterbury bes
 furnishing golden opportunity for
 working people and their families to
 joy an outing at a small expense.