Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-29
Segar Mill Property in Westerly
Not Yet Leased But Suits in Grla Case Death of Peter Livingstone Workmen Combine to Secure Reduced Trolley Fare to Stonngton-Sur- prise Party for Geo. H. Spicer-SmaIl Fire.

There were rumors during the past week that the mill buildings in Main street owned by the Messrs. Segar, had been leased and would be oper- ated by a concern engaged in the man. ufacture of woven goods.
 William Segar, one of the proprie- tors. stated that the mills had not been leased. but that they. probably would be within short while. He said that the gentlemen who were here during the week to look into the local eondi- t1onS. were perfectly satisfied with tbe mill property and location, and with the rental price of the mill, the own CTS having offered the property on a basis of three per cent. profit. The la Dor, power and other essential points were examined. The projectors were informed that the average pay of weavers was SIS week. or more than they could pay, that the labor market was very close and that the cost of power was much greater than within twenty miles of New York city, and, after examination. the projectors went away, with prospects unfavorable to locating in Westerly. MT. Segar said, however. that these prospective mill men hads been invited to return to Westerly and that there was yet hope of their locating here and adding to the industries of the town.
 Mir. Segar said he had heard, as everybody else in town had, that the Segars drove the Solway people from the town by reason of excessive rental and that the exorbitant rental charge was the cause for the vacancy of the mill buildings.
 The Solway mills people were about to locate in Pawcatuck, when the Se- gars induced them to locate in West erly, and the people of the town had ah af thfc thwfvfuur fr1HfcfJ-y for seyen years. Their business grew and the local plant was inadequate. so the company erected an extensive plant elsewhere and decided not to continue a branch in Westerly, prefer ring to do all their business in their own plant, and under one direction, as 6 matter of business. The Segars made every possible inducement for the Solways to remain, said MT. Segar, and this idle taHR about the matter has ceased to be troublesome.
 Afr. Segar said there was no one sn Westerly more anxious to have the town grow in industrial importance than the Segars, and naturally there is none more desirous to have the mill property occupied than the owners. 
 Granite workers In Westerly are in. terested in the general increase in the business in all sections of the coun- try, the local granite men are getting a full share of the increased business. The recent contract received by the Booth Brothers to furnish 100000 cu- bio feet of cut Maine granite to be used in the construction of the termi- nal station of the Chicago & North western Railroad Co.,, in Chicago means the employment of 500 men for nearly fifteen months. The granite will be quarried and dressed at the Booth plants in Maine.
 Judge Albert R. StiIman, recently reappointed magistrate of the town court of Stonington. has paid no at tention to the petition of protest and reappointed Frank IT. Hinclxley of Mystic prosecuting attorney. He also appointed William A. Wilcox of Paw eatuck assistant prosecutor, Edward A.
 ter of Stonington clerk, and Fred
 l.. Burdick of Pawcatuck pro-
 oa officer. The selection of dep-
 1dge to fill the vacancy occasion
 the death of Eben P. Couch, ia
 the Connecticut legislature L.
 airbrother of Stonington has been auinated for the office.