Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-07-29

Trolley COmpanyeIsn's Tah
ing Any Orders Fr0m
Him.

The biggest scrap that ever tousz
place between the trolley company ais.
the city in the days when democraii|x
administrations went up against fhosI
who wanted to give the company absts
lutte control of the public ways. was &
tame affair compared with the ro.S
now on between the company and fi58
powers that be and he.WUuIdabe q auiS
man who could tell this afternoon
which side will be in the ascendanEz
when the smoke of the battle clear
away. The cause of the crash is q did
ference over the grade OF the rails nnE
being laid on East Main street. ne4i
the entrance to Hamilton park. which
according to the engineer stick UN
about a foot and a half above the eN
tablished grade of the street and make
things so that one would have to ts.Fn +
a Somersa1lt or descend fight Of
stairs to get into the park if the stree
has to be brought to the grade of tlIs
rails. The foreman was not takin
any orders from little fellow like Ems
gineer Cairns and kept right along wi te
the work regardless of all that had beelz
said. Mayor Elton is cruising al1QAK
in his yacht and Alderman Blakeslt
is actingA mayor. The engineer brouet
the matter to the attention OF
Blakeslee, who tried to get meetl
Of the commissioners of public wof
but as Commissioners Wade. Holinf8
and Brown could not be located tl
had to be abandoned and toi. the iaine
being tie trolley had the whip haf
ard the engine6r went up and d0NH
the lire defiant, but still NOT ia a %
|sition to do anything. Finally q sQi
of truce was arrived at through Nl9
ager SewelI and Commissioners Iaa
son and the aldermen win be askGQ
stsaighten out the snarl next 1lonUaE
night. Some of the city officials ate
very sore over the way the company
is acting and claim that they took
unfair advantage OF the gratuitieE
they received from the aldermen re
garding approval Of plans for eKfen
sion to the service. Nobody, not even
the companies agents, denies thaE
they changed the grade Of Baldwin
street to suit their own purpose 9Na
so long as they did this without en-
body saying them nay 1t Is but natuTf
| al that they should not heslRafe VI
perform a similar feat in the eaetaasz
section of the city. The trolley cofN
pany is right. It is not hfls3S8
Oh any Oh EuG CITY DAt Sakt1c AAN'AAt *afA$
mayor down so long as it has 1ne&
| jority of the aldermen at its baciEtailfS
those fellows who are standing t
front of 1t viii find out that thex ha1
better step to one side. Why 1T
| only the other day that the foreman p QH
East Main street told Mayor Hlton' tfK
go to hi because he had the lmps
dence to take him to task about thH
blocking OF East Main street. at NRQi@
cott street Probably the xnan 6idn N
know that the gentleman Whnm bs
was addressing wsas the Chief naei
trate of the municipality but An an
| case he blurted 1t out. thereby show ip
| that he was not afraid OF the best ok
| them. To be sure. his honor dddn'
go and neither did the foreman desiS
from pursuing the even tenor 0f hi5
way with the work of constructing hls
switch. SO atwas a case OF quits. Won
der how Mr. Cairns and the board q
public works will make 0nt3