The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-09
Watermen Riddle Pretense that Removal of Nauga- tuck Dock and Dredg- ing is Concession to
 City.
Land 'Given" for Public Park May Be Resumed By Railroad at Pleasure It Is Bounded By Rail roads, Screening Locomo- tives and Trolley Tracks on One Side and By Sewer Stench on the Other.

Intense indignation is expressed
 throughout the city today as the true
 extent of the surrender of the city to the New Haven Railroad Company be- gins to be realized. And this feeling of anger and modification on the part of citizens is not confined to the oys- ter growers, or to the officers and members of associations who appeared in objection to the giving up of eleven acres of harhor.
 Another powerful class of citizens are bitterly angry with the settlement of the car barn proposal. There was talk this morning of a mass meeting to protest against permitting the ex- avenue or into Congress street. And the men who were urging this course were all Of them Republicans and some of them have been regarded as close to Mayor Lee.
 It is said that Senator Moses w. Manwaring, who served on the special committee to consider means of in- gress and egreeS to the car barns IS among those who are heartily disgust ed with the adjustment that has been reached with the railroad, although it is not likely that he will care to pub lic1y discuss his views.
 The anger in Republican official cir cles arises quite as much from the
  dized the success of his party in the fall elections as from a sincere sorrow that the city has suffered by the set clement.
 resolution he will, from the Republt- can standpoint, have signed away the few existing shreds Of public conf dence in his administration.
 Said a. Repu blican this morning, who holds an official place in the admins ,tEatiosa:> ssIff the -Mayor had been less vociferous in his campaign against the car barn plans it would be better for us new. But his whole fight against the railroad has been conducted with a brass band .'The situation would be better" continued the speaker, eff the Mayor had not made such free statements or his views, nor agitated his opposition to the car barn plans so extensive ly."
 Watermen continue to ridicule those portions of the s'concessions" which relate to the removal of the Naugatuck wharf and the agreement to dredge the flats beneath the dock and to a depun of IS feet from South avenue south to the site of the Naugatuck wharf The fact was long ago published that the steamers of the New England Nav1sa- tion Company are to lie at the Pe- quonnock dock, and that the plans of the railroad for the convenience Of US traffic require the removal or tne
 As to the dredging, only by taking the material from one side of their proposed bulkheads. say watermen. can the railroad get cheap material for filling in the other side
 Neither is the temporary donation of a park thought to be very valuable. | The proposed park is the strip of land extending from Stratford avenue be tween the railroad tracks and the wa ter front. It will be bounded, as one citizen expresses it, in the rear by locomotives and trolley car | tracks. and in front by sewer stench- | Moreover the railroad has the privil- | ege of taking back the gift whenever it | chooses.