Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-11
BUSY TOWN PLOTTERS
Largely Attended Meeting Endorsed At-
 torney J. N. Lynch For Senator.

At meeting of the Town Plot I'm
 provement society last night James
 M. Lynch was unanimously endorsed
 as the choice. of the organization for
 senator from the sixteenth district.
 Before the motion was put Chairman
 Hall paid handsome compliment to
 MT Lynch, saying among other things
 that Town Plot owes him great deal
 and that 1t would be for the interest
 of the sixteenth senatorial district to
 send him to Hartford. The matter
 of ward lines between the third and
 fourth voting districts was also dis
 cussed and was finally referred to a
 committee for investigation and re-
 port. There appears to be some con-
 fusion regarding the exact location
 of the boundaries and the society
 would like to have them fixed and
 determined so that every man will
 know where he belongs. The need
 of gas on the hill was introduced and
 it was voted that James Tyack be ap- pointed committee to wait upon the
 United Gas Improvement Co and have
 a talk with them about an extenison
 Of the service from D. J. Mahaney's residence westerly as far as there is demand for it.
 The ice question was aired and it seemed to be the unanimous opinion of the meeting that the time is ripe
 for municipal ice plant. Patrick
 McNamara had been looking up the cause of the advance in price to con- sumers and found that it was prompt ed solely to make the most of the opportunity to reap a rich harvest out of the people. The Hellmann Brewing Go, he said, is not charging the Waterbury Ice corporation any more for the stock now than they got when the article was retailed at much lower figure, so that one need not be frenzied finance fiend in order to perceive why the cost of the article had been pushed practically beyond the reach of the common peo- pie. MT McNamara and others thought it rather strange to see the city government stand by while all this is going on without making protest against it or taking steps to guard against continuation of the scheme by making a move towards harvesting ice and selling it to the poor at least at a price which they can afford to pay. Andrew J. Brod- erick suggested that a vote be passed requesting the aldermen to petition the general assembly to amend the charter so as to authorize the city of Waterbury to engage in the ice business, but after further considera- tion it was decided not to take any definite action for the present, but 1t will come up again.
 It was voted to extend an invita- tion to the Brooklyn members of the board of aldermen and the depart ment of public works to attend all meetings of the club and especially the session to be held on August 24. There is feeling among the mem- bers that Alderman Walker is indif- ferent, If not hostile, to certain pub- lic improvements which the residents of that district want and they wouN like very much to meet the alderman and have heart to heart talk with him regarding the needs of that part of the town. Mir Walker is like mcct 1sh0i 6iCdt hOu, ue IS uOt 6XLTemGly popular in his own immediate neigh oorhood, but it is thought that after he club fellows get hold of him they will give him few pointers which will show the error of his way.
 John Henderson, Michael Mahon, Charles Tyack, Andrew Frederick md others called attention to the need of better mail service west of ,he Naugatuck. Mir Henderson said that there is only one box in that 'egion from which collections are made for the early morning mails, md that is located near Walkers irug store, all right for people who i've ip that neighborhood, but not for hose who don't reside within a mile or more from that point. It was also said that during the collections in he evening the mail man skips sev- eral boxes. The matter will be brought to the attention of Post master Guernsey.