The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-10
SOME MORE CUT VIEWS.
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city-S interests. In other places they would be glad to get it where it is. and the change which is proposed by the railroad is not great I believe that even the grade difference which IS pro- posed by the road can be altered to some extent. The railroad will proba- bly, submit to some concessions in the height of the bridge over Chapel street, and, when this is accomplished, the whole thing will be settled satisfactor- fly. l notice they propose to take over the land in the cut, and they feel that 1t would be valuable asset to the city think if you stop to consider what it would cost to i'll the cut, and to build Foundations upon which buildings must go occupying the cut you will see that the land would be of very little value comparatively, and no such sum could be realized upon it as would reimburse the city to the extent of s10O,00O.
 Again, understand that this propos- ftion carries the station below the pres ent location-Somewher down towards Sargent's factory. Of course all this being in the air we do not know where the station may be located. I have oc- casion to take the o'clock train from time to time. and do not want to go one block beyond the present station. A railroad is convenience. It is also something of nuisance; so is the cleo tric light; so is the telephone that calls you up at dinner time, but we want all these things, and you might just as well put the telephone out of the town But when you put the railroad out of the town, the value of the land which it is proposed to take over is so much less because the town follows the sta- tion wherever 1t may go. If you put 1t over towards East Haven, the town would build over there. This has been shown in great many places.
 There Is one other matter that I want to call attention to. This plan proposes the shutting up of the cut through which the Northampton track now runs, and I am. here, not only on my account, but on account of the Win chester Repeating Arms company. I am told if they shut this shop up, that another cut will be opened in the course of time somewhere near Mt. Carmel, which will run across to the Quinnipiac freight yards. We are now a mile and a half from tideWater and somebody thinks, have heard it said, that we will be better off when we have to go fourteen miles to tidewater than we are now, when we have to go only a mile and a half-that it will really cost nothing more, and that the Winchester Repeating Arms company will be just as safe when they have to haul their coal and other freight around sfourteen miles as they are now with a haul now of a mile and half Possibly that might be true to-day. We might have the promise of the railroad to-day that our freight charges would not be increased, but how about tomorrow, or ten years from now when some new president of this road might feel that the Winchester Repeating Arms com pany was getting it's freight hauled fourteen miles on the basis of the price paid for a mile and a half? Do you think we are safer to have that cut closed up than we would be to have it left open? dorAot and 1t is difficult 55p ulsa'zs fifa Believe it.
 The whole proposition seems to me absurd. You take the land lying be- tween our place and Hamden, and there is no better land for malufactur- ing purposes. It lies at grade the full length of the railroad. l have seen a factory built over on the north side of the town, well above grade, and great price paid to get a track from it to the railroad, in fact, the plant must have been very expensive just because it was so far above grade
 If you are going to have people in our part of the town, you must have means of emp1oymett, and if you do not they cannot live there, as they cannot do truck gardening out there. If you cut off the railroad, or if you put it four teen miles from tidewater by railroad, 'oyou are not liable to have any thing built there. You are not liable to have Tthe population increase.
 na All these things seem to me to point s Out the fact of the necessity for the Y continuance of this Northampton rut. I know it is not pleasant. I have sat next to the road-say within twenty five yards-for thirty-four years and done business there. For a long time l lived on the corner of Church and Grove streets, and heard the trains go through the cut It is true it would be nicer if we all lived in Woodbridge, but we can't all live there and do business. It is one of the necessary evils that goes along with the city and it must stay with it and follow it.
 May say one word more? I have url- derstood that it was part of the plan of the railroad some time in the future Ito carry the Northampton track some- where across near Mt. Carmel over to the Hartford tacks, or to the freight yards on the Quinnipiac river, but even in that event we feel that the cut as 1t now exists ought to be left open as a factor of safety, and we hope that you will all stand by us to that end
 Judge Lynde Harrison unqualifiedly disapproved of continuing the use of the cut. He characterized the cut as a nuisance and declared that it was, on the whole, a damage to the business interests of New Haven and that it would be a benefit to the city's busi- ness interests to eliminate the cut. He said he believed it would be worth the cost.
 Judge Harrison disagreed with ex- Mayor Driscoll, who stated at last weeks meeting that he believed that the city could not appropriate money toward the railroad improvement under an amendment to the state constitu-