Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-07
ABOVE AND BELOW.
Corporations Driving the People Into
 the Tall Timbers.

the Tall Timbers.
 The outing held by the board of pub- lie works yesterday means great deal to the people of Waterbury. It was the prenmSnafy step to approving the trolley company's application for double tracking portions of nearly all the principal streets in the city. In the opinion of most people who have been heard on the question the idea is all right, but the company should be obliged to pay something for the priv lege. It cannot be charged that their charter gives them the right to do all they want to. They have no charter rights to lay double tracks and 1t might be just as well to be candid about this matter and admit that the sO-called tllrnouts are nothing but doubletracking. The public appears to favor the 0ouble-tIacking, that Is, provided such course is absolutely necessary, but even then they claim that the company. ought to pay some thing for the privilege. The streets should be paved from curb to curb wherever double tracks are laid and made wider where they are too narrow for two tracks and leave room for 8 tCnAA dL 0ALACA SlACs Nl0 O1 LLAO AACA1f- bers of the board of public works said yesterday that in his opinion the busi- ness of hitching horses in front of stores and offices had seen It's finish i'll Waterbury, but it is doubtful if store keepers ands others want. to see such an order passed yet a. while. Such course would work a great hardship to large numbers of people. To be sure, if ha Q RNrs ley,s but the city officials should bear in mind that any plan which would deprive people Of stopping wagon at any part of the public ways would be serious inconvenience to every body butcher, the doctor. the dry goods clerks and others who find it necessary to make occasional stops here and there, to say nothing of others, would be greatly handicapped by such a con- dition of affairs and, if possible, pro- vision should be made that both the trolley and teams of every decription can do business on the streets without hindering each other.
 Another matter uppermost ina the public mind just now is the question of fares. Many claim that some ar- Ad41SC11AOhG S1IOulO OS 0IdNC WHCTGOy Waterbury people can ride to Nauga- tuck and return for ten cents. Tn oth- CT words. that the fare to and from Naugatuck on the trolley cars be reduced from ten cents to five cents each way. This would be- benefit to Waterbury in more ways than one. It would save ten cents day to working people who use it regularly and TVfNIIld O Sr hv~4y, shoppers here from Naugatuck. Be- sides, 1t would enable families to take a ride on the South Main street trol- ley evenings without having to spend more than they could afford. Several years ago George B. Terry said at a trolley hearing before the aldermen that the Naugatuck line was not pay ing, still he was of the opinion that in the near future the fare would be re- duced to five cents. Why not make merchants and the patrons of the road would welcome it, too.
 After the trolley company and the Southern New England Telephone Go get the plans they now have before the city government approved there will scarcely be room for two cats to dance on the surface of the streets or below them that will not be occupied by these corporations. and the birds will nave to fly high in order to. steer clear of the4s companies property over ground. Between poles erected in the streets for trolley, electric light, teIe- phone and telegraph service, every available space will be utilized over ground and the under ground conduits i will puzzle the wits of MT Cairns to find room for his water mains, sewer pipes and storm water drains without colliding with the property of the United Gas Improvement Go, the Southern New England Telephone Go or the Connecticut Railway and Light ing Go. Tn addition to taking up space. these things add to the cost of
 maintaining the streets, and if the pri- vate corporations pay nothing toward this additional expense 1t must be plain to all that the whole burden will fall upon the shoulders of the rate payers so that looking at 1t from a purely business standpoint it is the duty of the city to get something be.
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