New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-12
NO POLITICAL SCRAPE.
"Hold-Up' of Stanford BARRIERS
RidicuIed an NeSg-HaUen.


ford over the fees which the commission mas
been gathering in from BARRIERS who have al
lowed their licenses to run out and have not re-
newed them within the thirty days allowed us
law, has reached the point where 1t is lnt.
mated that politics are behind the atfituoe Oh
the Stamford authorities.
The suggestion has been met with MAJ "e
malls by those interested, under any circuiii7
stances it must be done. The only renaaFhaDie
thing about the incident is that the o'aiiiioia
authorities should have taken any staho oh ~
at ALL as similar arrests for not opeyihs lne
law in regard to renewal of licenses nave pee"
made without question in other iocalitles IA
Stamford the Barber Commission asked the
court to collect So for these failures TO renew
and Judge Young and Prosecuting ATTORNEY
Carter instead of doing this, severely arraigned
the commission.
Mr. Carter is quoted as saying that 1t was
robbery to make a barber pay the Incense Zee
of a first year man. instead OF the 81 renewal,
and that the commission was charging just On
too much in each case. Colhiiiissio
Schneider. of this city is quoted as uHs
that he had the assurance Of Attorney 1elefat
William A King that such a charge was legal
and General King comes to the enalS mar
with the statement that Mr.. Schneider must DC
dreaming. as. if the latter had such an opinion
from him, 1t would De IN WIltilss oiA0 -
opinion had been asked or rendered
Now the matter has gone so far that hints
are being made of a deep political imorosho
behind this innocent misunderstanding. 1t Is
being said that as Prosecuting Attorney Carter
of Stamford. is in Samuel Fessenden's once IN
that city, the episode must be taken as a move
on the part of Fairfield County TO get INTO the
Sd District Congress fight. Republicans VINO are
familiar with the situation are not IN the least
disturbed about this hint. Mr. Fessendeh hlu
woman duty in pushing through Senator Bran
dagee's nomination in the legislative hepupican
caucus. but his friends are great deal amused
by the suggestion that he is hitting Mr.. King
through the BARRIERS. 1t looks to these Repuo-
Icsns more like bit of summer fiction" than
ANYTHING else If things political were not so
ouiet lust now elsewhere than in the 80 DIS
trict this mild comedy would not have been en-
acted
NO TRACKS ON sTATE-ST.
Bv the terms of the understanding which the
cit1, of Ne1v-Faven and the Consolidated Road
have reached with regard to the railroad cut
in this city the important public improvement
is likely TO be made of removing the streeteaf
tracks from Safest 1t is stated that Presi-
dent Meller has agreed to this change, and that
the State St tracks will be taken UP and laid IN
the a'cut" alongside the six steam road tracks,
- SAN-N-NNo
thoroughfare of the centre of the city, OF the
crowded condition incident on trolley occupa-
ton.
Safest. so far as the electric road trackage
from ChapeI-st to the old depot has been con-
cerned, has been used by the street railroad al
most entirely a connection with the railroad
station from the downtown centre Of the city
Very little business has been picked up from
Chapel-st to the station, except where the
Water-st line joins state-st. at right angles at
the railroad yards. By the plans of the road
the Safest. line will be run directly
through the cut into the new station. and
some kind of arrangement will be made at
the new station whereby fares will be paid in
advance of entering the cars This will give TO
the city a rapid transit connection between the
station and the centre, which will be vast
improvement over the present method.
AS the plans of the railroad mature and are
announced it is becoming more and more evident
that New Haven is soon TO have of the
most up to date and convenient station and
line arrangements of any city along the line
of the road. AS stated to-day in The Tribune,
the negotiations between the city and the road
have been SO tactfuIy managed by the city Off
Gals that Newt Haven will emerge scot free, as
far as cost goes, from the entire undertaking.
Even this could not have been done had it not
been for the attitude of President Mellen,
which, throughout the vexatious controversy,
has been one of anxiety to meet the city half
way. In a report given out by Mayor Studley,
a member of the city commission, It is stated:
The main contention made by the city's COM
missioners was that the railroad company should
improve the grades which the company sought
to have established for the several bridges over
the cut" The commission wanted substan-
TALLY 3 per cent grade wherever possible, and
in some instances they have succeeded in seeur-
haiti ,l1r +1o,, rT1l-o
whole, the grades accepted by the COM
mission are better than those which were pro-
posed by any plan so far advanced and they
are an improvement on the present grades
speaking of the average of the grades over the
cut" The commission feels that the plans as
agreed upon, as whole, the best the city
can get and that the railroad coronauy Is req
sonable in saving that from the necessities Of
the conditions prevailing, the plans the best
that the company can give and carry out its sys-
tenn of improvements
The railroad company's plans contemplated
shutting up Union-st. from Fair-st to Court-st.
The citys commission felt that in return for
this the city should receive some compensation
and proposed that either the railroad company
should deed to the city the old depot property, |
which was given to the company years ago by
the city, or that the railroad company should
continue Crown-st. through from State-st to
there, or that the railroad should open UP some
other street in place of Union St. that the
railroad company should take up the trolley
tracks in State-st in order TO relieve the con-
gestion there, The railroad company answered, |
through MT MelIen, That II had purchased the
properties on both sides of Union-st.. paying
literally for the same, for the purpose of re-
moving any objection to the closing of that
street which owners of adjacent property might
have. and that because of such realty purchases
the business of Union-st would be wiped out
by the removal of these properties and the
traffic thereon would be comparatively insignia
cant, The matter finally resulted in agree
ment by the railroad company to take up and !
remove its trolley car tracks from State-st.
The statement of Mayor studley, which is
the first official utterance on the projected plans