Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-21
WHAT SEWELL SAYS
About That Trolley Line to Brook lyn and Town Plot and
 Robbins Street.

The fight between the residents of Town Plot and people from the other side of tlIe hill is the most stubborn ever conducted ill Waterbury, and 1t the present time there is not q man ill town outside these districts who has the courage to express an opinion on the relative merits of the two ques- tions at issue. The most you can get out of even ready takers is that tlie Robbins street trolley should not he held up and that no time should be lost ill extending the service into Town Plot.
 : don't see what those people over on Town Plot mean," remarked Gen. eral Manager Sewell of the Connecti- cut Railway and lighting company to a Democrat reporter. How do you suppose they expect to help their case by having the Robbins street project held up? When the time comes that one part of the town wants to dictate what all the other sections shall have then we shall have reached a stage when no more trolley service will be. needed. MT Young told the commit tee that as soon as they could show that the trolley could be taken onto Highland avenue on an eight per cent. grade the company would build the road. provided the right of way was secured, as the committee claimed they were prepared to do. Now I have gone them one better than that and assured them that if they can get up there at nine per cent. grade and give us the right of way the road will be built just as soon as they come to us with the thing in shape so that we can go to work on It. MT Rasmus- sen has all this on paper above my signature. Why doesn't he trot that out and let the people see it? I gave him our proposition in writing and asked him to submit what the people were ready to do in a tangible way, but he hasn't done it. More than that they thought that we could do better with the Sperrys for right of way through their property and I told them to go ahead and secure rights of way up to that point and then we would step in. Have they done this? Not so that you could notice it. So far as I know we have nothing from them but propositions setting forth >what we are willing to do provided they put us in position to go ahead, but they don't seem to be making a move in that direction. They tell us that the Robbins street trolley cannot be settled until after they get what they want. Perhaps that is so. but assuming 1t to be true it does not mean that MT Rasmussen is gaining any ground. The Robbins street mat ter is separate thing altogether from the Town Plot matter and I can't see why anybody thinks he is furthering the interests of Town Plot by throw ing obstacles in the way of the other. But that is more than I intended to say on the question. If you want 10 know inst what l actually did say in my letter. to Mir Rasmussen. ask him to let you see 1t and then inquire what has been done towards getting the right of way and putting the company in position to take hold of the pro- ject."
 Mir Sewell said that he didn't think there would be any trouble whatever in getting the line built through the Brooklyn district onto Town Plot pro- vided the committee can do half what it says. Come now. Mir Rasmussen. here Is what looks like a fair offer. and no time should be lost In giving the public an opportunity to see whether the company means what 1t says or not.