The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-23
A GOOD TOWN
WINDSOR HAS WAVE OF
GOOD IMPROVEMENT
Wants a Supply of Mountain
Water With Greeley-Sewer
Being Built-Electric
Lights Coming

Can Windsor get in with Greeley
on the new soft water proposition,
and will Greeley carry out its in
tended plans at all? These are two
of the main questions being asked
by Windsor people just now. The
people of that town are keen after
such supply of water, and realize
that unless they can make deal
with Greeley to carry their supply in
the Greeley pipes they are forever
shut out. Hence Windsor people
are again watching the coming
special election in Greeley with fully
as much interest as the Greeley
people themselves.
A great wave of municipal i'm
provement has swept over the little
city to the west. Work is being
rushed rapidly on the finest sewer
system in the county, the cost of the
first part of it being about sl5, 900.
This is doing pretty we'll for town
of that size, although lively one.
Windsor is pretty lively place
these days, with the several hundred
extra men from the sugar factory
making it headquarters. The fact
that Windsor is the west end of a
great railroad system, the east end
of which is at Eaton, does not seem
to have hurt the town at all. Prob
ably it has not yet done it any good,
either. But it will some day when
the little new town of Severance gets
a start and either Eaton or Winsdor
will do the wholesale business for
the Severance merchants.
While most of the Windsor people
are fairly progressive, G. A. 1ancy
seems to be the pusher just now.
He has just completed a two-story
brick block on Main street there, the
upstairs of which is being used as an
annex to the American House. BY
the way. this is pretty good house,
but is not large enough for the big
hotel trade that visits Windsor
For that reason the merchants there
are looking for some angel with lots
of money to come in and put up a
good hotel building.
Windsor has from time to time
been bothered with 'bootleggers, y
and heroic efforts are being made to
secure a lid that will stay on the
trouble. They are succeeding fairly
we'll, at times, but when there is d
break in the cover it is bad one.
However, there is no reason why a
man should not refuse to drink the
villainous stuff if he does not want
it, and so long as there is a bad case
of thirst some enterprising liquor
dealer will find way around ordl'
nance and law to Quench 1t.
Windsor has an electric light bee
in its bonnet and that bee should be
allowed to buzz all it wants to.
Better lighting for the city is badly
needed. The people who live there
all the time do not notice 1t SO
much, but stranger can become lost
if he ventures half block from the
main street after dark. The street
leading to the depot is especially dis
agreeable. There is not light from
the store on the corner of Main street
until the depot is reached, and all
there will be found there is the dim
lipht from kerosene lamp that
shines over the lake, and cannot be
seen at all from the direction OF the
town.
There is just one more kick, and
that is not at all on the town, but
on the G.. g. S. railroad. 1t Is the
depot. This is not one-third large
enough. "A few evenings ago it was
noticed that there were about twenty
or twenty-ti five passengers waiting Tor
the evening train for Greeley. The
air was too chilly outside to walt
there, so the two dozen persons
crowded into the stutfy little walt
ing room. 1t was practically dark
in there and so crowded that one
could scarcely move.
With a new depot, new hotel ana
and n new electric light plant Wind
sor would now be all right.
Henry Jacoby and Miss Lena Dan