Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-13
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WOCK m tue OullQln& llQe Ill WaCer- bury is bright and If the right kind of labor can be had. things will be booming here in another week or so. The strike of the local carpenters and joiners Is on as tight as ever and there is no likelihood that 1t will be settled this spring, either. The boss es are firm and the men show no signs of yielding. A great many of the more tskillful men have found splen- did jobs in other towns and will not come back. here anyway, but 1t Is thought that if the differences were adjusted many of the old hands who are living away from home would take the first opportunity to come back and live with their families. The employers claim that several of the men have gone back to their jobs and that suitable men have been secured from other places so that nobody is suffering for want of desirable help. If something is not done pretty soon to add to the number of ttenements there will be trouble, although own CTS of blocks say that there is no scar city of rents provided people are will ing to pay the price, which in the owners judgment cannot be less, con sidering the advance in taxes and other expenses, all of which render it absolutely necessary to get more than formerly out of the tenants. What ever the cause may be, it is certain that the time has come when tenants will not be quite as indifferent about the rate of taxation and the price of water as too many of them have been in the past. People don't build houses for sport and when the cost of main tenance goes up as 1t has been doing in Waterbury, landlords have to make the tenants carry share of the added burden. Suitable rents in de- sirable places are high and they all ways will be from now on, for Wa terbury has grown so2large within the past few years that nearly every available place is wanted by people who are employed in the immediate vicinity of the center and for some reason or other, notwithstanding the trolley extensions, there appears to be a disposition on the part of people on the outside to move towards the crowded districts, and while this feeling exists 1t is easy to see that rents located near the center will be crawling upward right along. A man who moved in from the outside last fall told reporter today he Is paying $9 month more for the place he now occupies, but even at that he can live cheaper He saves more than half of 1t on trolley fare and the difference in the price of such things as he wants for his family more than makes up the balance Besides that he Is not subjected to the annoyance he had to contend with while he was in a district where he had practically no protection from people who have no respect for the rights of their neighbors. He thought that the an noyances people are. put to in defend ing their property where there is no police protection has a great deal to do in det1ring prudent citizens from taking up residences In the outlying sections of the city and results in making rents higher than they ought to be on the inside while they are so low on the outside that property owners have an uphill job to make ends meet.
 There is n great deal of truth in this and if the authorities could be made to look at things from that standpoint some of the big protects wffch. ,are now uppermost in their minds would give way to more urgent needs. The people of Waterbury want better DO lice protection. No doubt they are get ting all they can have with the number of men at the command of the depart ment of safety, but it would seem that the time has come when additions should be made to the regular force before doing anything else. Good order is essential to the prosperity of any community and no matter how well disposed people may be this cannot be assured without proper police surveil- lance. Business men as well as prl- vater citizens are harlshipped on ac- count of the conduct of armies of youngsters who. while doing nothing that might be termed criminal. render neighborhoods undesirable either for trade or residence purposes. and as a consequence prospective customers and residents give them wide berth, and from time to time others grow tired of the worry and seek more cOngenial quarters. In many instances owners of property are simply tolerated where they live and manage to keep out of trouble by shutting their eyes to all kinds of abuses. Private citizens are Ioath to make policemen Ofthemsclves, and besides 1t is not fair to force them to the unpleasant duty of protecting themselves and their property while they are paying the city for such ser vice. Waterbury needs ten or fifteen more policemen and provision should be made to employ them even though something else goes on the waiting