Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-24
THE SCOTT ROAD
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town highways of Waterbury is now In better condition than Nelson Todd ever saw 1t before, and as one joker said. MT Todd knew the road before 1t was made" For several years the road was as good as closed because 1t was almost Impossible to get over it with q team. and the walking was s0 bad pedestrians gave 1t a wide berth and took to the woods, where they had pretty decent footpath. The few residents who still live out there kept on appealing to the officials without avail until this year, when Mayor Thoms decided to do sorne- thing for them. A few weeks ago William k. Houghton, foreman on the street department. and q Demo- crat reporter, went over the road clear out to the town boundary at Prospect and reported the situation as they found 1t.
 The Clarks and others who had been trying to get it fixed thought they were modest in their estimates of cost, $2,000, but Mir Houghton took hold of the job and succeeded in get ting 1t into excellent shape for S750. This includes the cutting of the brush on both sides of the street for a distance of over mile. Of course the road Is not worked to its full width. It Is what is known as one track road, provided with thank-you- mans. gull!es, gutters and suffi- cient number of turn outs to enable teams to pass each other without causing any inconvenience. A re- porter went over the road yesterday afternoon and he scarcely could be- lieve 1t was the same place that he had explored such short time ago when 1t was difficult to get line on where the street was. Now a car- riage can spin along it without a jolt and if Prospect would put its hand to it's heart and do something with the street where Waterbury left off, the highway all the way from John Reeds to Prospect center would make beautiful drive, and the old folks who are rounding out their lives in that region would see an au- tomobile whiz by once in while to mar the monotony of the wood team and ox-cart.
 The people are very much pleased at the, changed condition of the street. Nelson Todd, who was born out there in 1881, and lived theres ever since. took stroll down the road the other day and the footing was so good he kept right on until he reach ed the ball grounds. MT Todd said yesterday that he never expected to be able to walk over the street again, for he believed that the city had abandoned 1t and that when he breathed his last his bones would have to be rattled over the stones, like those of a stranger whom nobody owned.
 The most interesting character in the district Is Mrs Sarah Rosaline Scott, widow of the late Edward M. Scott, who celebrated her eightieth birthday last June, but you'd never think so. For one of her years she is, wonderfully we'll preserved. Her maiden name was Sarah Rosaiie Todd. Her grandfather. Bethura Todd, native of North Haven, nov ed to the. Scott road 125 years ago and built the red house across the way from where Mrs Scott now re- sides. The family has lived there ever since. She had three brothers, but they died years ago. Her husband was joiner, a Naugatuck man. He died 20 years ago. With the excep- tion of two years spent in the city when her husband was working for William Perkins. Mrs Scott has lived all the time on the Scott road. Her memory is good and she can still point out the location of the pathway that led from her fathers house to the East Farms school. distance of about a mile, and can relate interest," ing "reminiscences of the sport they used to have afternoons when the Benhams, Hotchkisses, Munsons, Dut- tons, Shermans, Austins and the rest of the boys and girls used to get to- gether at hops In those days Wa terbury was small hamlet and the farmers of that district disposed of their produce in New Haven. Mrs Scott's eldest brothers name was Bennett; the next was Richard, a beautiful boy, who died when quite young, and the family thought so much of him they named the next son Richard, too, but God called him also and finally Bennett followed him and then Mir Scott went, leaving the old home lonely, and it's single occupant, disconsolate, although having enough of the things of this world to last her as long as God spares her.
 Mrs Scott owns besides her houses and barns. 107 acres of ground, and appears to be very comfortable. "A relative, Mir Dutton of New Haven, stops with her and the man who tills the farm occupies the old homestead, which is painted red, while the one in which Mrs Scott lives in is dressed in white and makes very pretty pie ture in the center of green lot sur rounded by number of fruit and shade trees. The old lady invoked the blessing of God upon the city fathers for fixing the street so that the physician of the soul and that of the body may be able to call upon her whenever she needs them.