The Newtown bee., 1905-06-02

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 Absolutely Pure
 MS NO SUBS717E Ject, come the trolley lines. z When a trolley line is run through a communi
 ty, especially at 8 distance from a steam railway property values respond
 promptly and the effect is permanent.
 They are augmented thousands of dol
 lars for every mile the road penetrates
 In comparatively short time an i'm.
 mense spiders web of trolley lines will cover the landscape of our state. To give this matter more local bearing now plans are being evolved which when worked out will mean the con. struction of through trunk trolley line from Bridgeport to Danbury,
 with a branch thrown off at Upper Stepney running to NewtOwn and on to New Milford. Through express and sleeping cars will eventually be run regularly on these lines. Another
 branch from the Newtown line will run east across the Housatonic river, through Southbury, connecting with the Woodbury & Waterbury traction line. Another line will run from the Orwalks, through Easton to Bethel. These are only two among hundreds of instances that might be mentioned.
 A second and still more important factor is the telephone, which is des- tined to be universal in it's application. Great as was the Improvement when the free rural delivery system brought the daily visit of the mail carrier through the hitherto unexplored wilds of many parts of the interior, Withz4ll the advantages that went with an innovation, yet for the annihila tioil Of distance, for the quick and satisfac- tory transaction of business at long range, for thousand and one things easily suggesting themselves to any one, the telephone stands without a peer and in few years when more generally installed and it's myriad uses demonstrated it will be the means of saving the farmers of the state thou sands and thousands of dollars in wear and tear on horses, wagons and equip ment. Orders for produce will be sent from the city over the wire, thus say ing long trip for this purpose. But in it's relation to improved farm values the telephone will prove especially useful and stand in distinct class all it's own as an auxiliary and automatic working partner with the third and in all respects, from financial stand point, the greatest factor of the three which stand pre-eminent as the three good genii of the owner of farm prop erty.
 This third factor is the commercial 1Y successful navigation of the air by vehicles. Enthusiastic experimen ters have risked their lives in proving that the air is navigable and now victory Perches on their banner. Only recent ly 8 western inventor demonstrated that his machine could go against the wind as easily as before it, fly up straight or at tangent, dive and as. cend and in fact go through any evolu- tiOns the operator willed. This meant a big stride forward. In 10 years. probably less but 10 is a safe estimate. nosfarmer will seek the passage of a bill through the legislature at Hart ford compelling automobiles to be kept off country roads, as was done at the present session. At that time the auto ''crank," if he still exists, can take his life in his hands at the rate of a hundred miles an hour if he chooses. The farmer won't care. He will have no use for roads then. He will be floating along in serene content in his freight air ship, either going to or re- he will be out for sail in his light air landau, accompanied by his family.
 Under present conditions the farmer rises at a. m., on market day in order to start early for town. If he returns in time to retire at g p. m., he is ex- tremely fortunate. Such a trip is usu- ally undertaken but once week if the city is 12 or more miles distant. The profits are largely consumed by repairs to wagons and equipment, wear on horses, etc, and allowance for his own time. With the advent of the air ship all this will change. Orders will be received at leisure by telephone and the produce will be loaded on the air car as convenient, the car being taken under it's own power to any part of the farm to get what may be wanted. At ' or 8. m., the start may be made and half hours easy flight will bring one to the city, 10 or Is miles distant. At 10 a. m., one is home again ready to perform any duties about the farm that may be necessary. Trips to mar ket will usually be made each morn- ing. The expense will be small and the profits of course very large, as ev- erything taken to town reaches the consumer in it's freshest and crispest state and sells, as matter-of-course, at the highest rate. There are good times ahead for the farmer. The fu- ture is pregnant with big possibilities, exceeding those so faintly outlined here. But bearing in mind the above facts, 1t needs no Solomon to figure out that my estimate of 300 per cent increase in the value of rural real es- tate in the next 10 years is not only logical and feasible, but sure, being based in no sense on any element of chance or uncertainty.
 Mrs c. J. Beck has returned from