The Newtown bee., 1905-06-02

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 Absolutely Pure
 MS ~ SUBS7Y7UE Ject, come the trolley lines. When a trolley line is run through a cOmmuni- ty, especially at distance from 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 a more local bearing it is only necessary to state that even now plans are being evolved which when worked out will mean the con- struction of a through trunk trolley line from Bridgeport to Danbury, with 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 NOrwalks, 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, with all the advantages that went with such an innovation, yet for the annihila tion 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 8 few years when more generally installed and it's myriad uses 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 sav- ing a 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 partner with the third and in O i'm io1 CfnvN d. 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 lY successful navigation of the air by Enthusiastic experimen ters have riSked their lives in proving that the air is navigable and now victory perches on their banner. Only recent ly 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 safe estimate, no:farmer 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 a hundred miles an hour if he chooses. no use for roads then. He will be floating along in serene content in his freight air ship, either going to or re- tI1rninr from m9rRQf Or he will be out for sail in his light ail landau, accompanied by his family.
 Under present conditions the farmer rises at 4 a. m., on market day in order to start early for town. If he returns in time to retire at 9 p. m., he is ex tremely fortunate. Such 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 OF horses, etc, and allowance for his own time. With the advent of the ail ship all this will change. Orders vii be received at leisure by telephone an( the produce will be loaded on the ai car as convenient, the car being taken under it's own power to any part O. the farm to get what may be wanted At or 8. m., the start may be mad, | one to the city, 10 or Is miles distant
 At 10 a. m., one is home again read, to perform any duties about the farn that may be necessary. Trips to mar
 ket will usually be made each morn ing. The expense will be small ant
 the profits of course very large, as ev erything taken to town reaches th
 consumer in it's freshest and criSpes
 state and sells, as matter-Of-courSe | at the highest rate. There are goo,
 times ahead for the farmer. The flu | ture is pregnant with big possibilities
 exceeding those so faintly outline
 here. But bearing in mind the abov facts, 1t needs no Solomon to figur
 out that my estimate of 300 per cen
 increase in the value of rural real es | tate in the next 10 years is not onl | logical and feasible, but sure, bein
 based in no sense on any element C
 chance or uncertainty.
 Mrs c. J. Beck has returned fror
 Danbury, where she has been stayin
 for the past five weeks.
 Mrs A: H: Ferry has entertaine
 Arthur T. Nettleton, the popula
 treasurer of the Newtown Savina
 bank, had a narrow escape from fat;
 injury, Sunday. While crossing tt
 road after church he went back of th
 team of D. G. Beers. MT Nettleto
 turned to speak to Robert Clark whe
 MT Beers horse backed suddenl
 throwing MT Nettleton to the groun
 and under the carriage. He manage
 to crawl out and escaped with sligl
 bruises about the head.