Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-02-09
OUTLINING THE ROUTE.
Surveyors for New York Central
 Were About Town To-Day.

4 bus filled with surveyors for the New York Central railroad passed down Bank street at noon to-day. ell route for the Brooklyn district, where they commenced outlining the route for the proposed new railroad. Local real estate dealers look upon this road and the changes incident to the new union station as of great importance to Wa terbury. They claim that it is bound 10 give real estate'a big boom, but the wisest among them don't pretend to know which section of the town will profit most by it. It was said to-day that few progressive citizens are planning to get hold of the land run ning from Brown street to Phoenix avenue with view to constructing q cross street between these points anu opening up frontages on both sides oh property which is now practically hemmed in, but with suitable street would be just right both for business and residential purposes. Another project which has been talked of be, fore and is now coming to the surface again is the opening of street from Bank street to Chatfield street and thence to South Main street. coming out little below the church of Our Lady of Lourdes. It is also said that this scheme includes cutting from south Main street to South Elm street and from there to Franklin and Mill streets. These things may not come right away. but with the natural growth of the city and the increasing demand for business blocks in the i'm mediate vicinity of the center, it is not unreasonable to believe that inside of the next ten years every piece of vacant land convenient to Exchange place will be reached and a building erected on it.
 Things are coming our way.' said enc of the real estate dealers to-day, and it is about time. For the past fifteen or twenty years owners of real estate had pretty hard sledding and n.any of them went under. The de- mand for suitable rents now is such that you can select your tenants and charge reasonable price for stores and tenements with reasonable assur- ance of not being beaten out of it. After this bank tax is removed and a revision of the tariff agreed to and passed, I see no reason why we cannot borrow money and buy material at fig tres which will enable LIS to build more houses and let them cheaper. The cost of material has been a great draw back to building not only ill Waterbury but all over the country. and if relief does not come during the present ad- ministration, mark my word for it you'll see a clean sweep at the White House at the next general election"
 While there is lot of truth in this. it tells but half the story. It deals only with real estate, but what about the cost of living in other ways? It takes practically all an ordinary man can earn to feed, clothe and educate his family. and while this state of things continues it is hard to see how the common people can hope to lay aside anything for the purchase of a lot to say nothing about putting a house on it. People are not whit more extravaSapt now than ever. but everything costs more and as there is not corresponding advance in the wage scale. it is easy to see the source of the trouble, much more so. it would seem than it Is to remove it.