Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-22
PAR SEWELL'S LETTER
sels Received by Hans Rasmussen
 at 4 O'clock Yesterday.

N bf the Democrat by Mir Sewell regard Ing trolley matters created big sen ovation in Brooklyn and Town Plot and after reading them the leaders l got together and commenced asking
 each other what there was back of
 them. MT Rasmussen has not report
 ed the receipt of any such communi- cation as General Manager Sewell ! had referred to and the question cv- erybody wanted decided was which was prevaricating? While the excite i ment was at it's height the door was opened and MT Rasmussen entered I with copy of the Democrat in one hand and Mir Sewells letter in the other. After little investigation 1t was shown that the letter was mailed at the local office at 10:30 o'clock, a. m., February 20. This was after the rural mail man for Town Plot had
 left, so that it did not reach Mir Ras- mussen until o'clock yesterday after noon.
 1 This put a different face upon the < whole matter and after satisfying ,I themselves that both the interview ,I and communication referred to were ] genuine it was decided to give the pc I titioners' side of the question to-day.
 work which was delegated to Mf 9 Rasmussen.
 ' "One would think said Mir Ras- J mussen by the remarks of MT Sewcll j, in the paper yesterday, that the letter l referred to had been in my hands for | several weeks, while as "a matter of ! fact I had the Democrat almost as
 soon as the letter. Tn order that the
 public may not be misled as to what Il Mir Sewell does say in his letter desire to have it made public"
 \ The communication is as follows: I Waterbury, Conn, Feb 10, 1906. I MT Hans Rasmussen, City:
 Dear Sir-I am in receipt of yours of the 16th relative to extension of 4 tracks to Town Plot from Bank street. \ have had copies of your letter sent to different members of our executive ] committee, and hope to hear from
 them in few days as to what action
 they will take on your proposition to \ furnish the right of way over route
 that the grades will not exceed 8 per \ cent. My personal opinion is that if your association will secure the right
 of way with maximum grade as above l stated, that the Town Plot trolley line will be built within a reasonable time after such right of way and grades I have been secured. Very truly,
 Connecticut Railway X Lighting Co, J. E. SEWELL, Gen Mgr. Continuing Mir Rasmussen said that
 the Town Plot people never agreed to ;al, ,.;rv <>fx fp,. tho by way of James street. What they l did say was that they could show an eight per cent. grade and this has been done. One other route talked of some time ago they did agree to furnish the company right of way from q
 point near the residence of Mir Adams
 to the town line, but the company
 wouldn't accept it. After this the
 other matter was taken up and we
 were told that if we could show an
 eight per cent. grade there the road
 would be built. This is all we pro
 posed to do after the original proposi-
 tion fell through. The idea of asking
 farmers to come in and buy city prop
 erty for trolley routes is prepOsterous
 and Mir Sewell knows that we never
 thought of such thing. Everything
 we were willing to do has been put
 on paper and forwarded to Mir Sewell
 and If he can show that we ever said
 word about furnishing right of
 way except between the points men
 tioned. then I shall have no more 10
 say. We don't want anybody't0 think
 that we grudge our nelghbors
 all the good things they can get from
 the city government and the trolley,
 but being a part of the community
 we feel that we should not be lost
 sight of altogether. Somebody in your
 own paper gave an outline of what has been done in other parts of the
 town in the matter of street making
 and notwithstanding the taunts thas
 body should think so. except they want to take the ground that we have no rights which the city government or anybody else Is bound to respect"
 Discussing the question further Mir Rasmussen said that this is no one
 man movement hut a united effort on the part of the whole people of Brook lyn and Town Plot to get something done fin that part of Waterbury and give it chance to grow. He reiter- ated the statement made by him on
 Monday night that while he has no objection to the trolley for the ac- commodation of people in neighborlng towns. he believes that we owe our first duty to ourselves and in cOnsc- auence the home man and his family | should not be left to travel unreason- ! ably long distances over poor roads l to get to his work while vast sums of l money is being expended for the ac- |