Connecticut western news., 1909-02-18
CANAAN, CONN, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY IS, 1909

heated, and other conditions that exist here are improper aud will have to be remedied. They cannot be remedied unless we heat the building in a differ. ent manner than we are now doing. It is not very often that the ladies start out on such an enterprise and try to do something for the town at no expense to the taxpayers. think it would be very unklnd of us to vote it down when, within a year, we will be compelled to do something here and the town will have to foot the whole bill. Had we not better take advantage of this offer and do what the ladies have asked us to do, and what you all know IS needed and will sooner or later have to be done? I do not think the ladies will take the matter up again if they are snubbed. It will be very unwise to pass this thing by. I know the town is in debt for roads, schoolhouse and other improve. ments, but they were needed, and this is a poor time and poor place to draw the line against this proposition which has been made to the people of this town. do not believe it will cost any more to heat this room or this building than it does now. It is not now properly heat. ed, and has been the canse of many people taking severe colds"
 J. B. Reed-Mr. Pelrce suggests that the people who are opposed to this are snubbing the ladies. do not like to snub them any more than he does, but we are looking at it on business basis. The town has not one dollar to put into this enterprise. We have borrowed $500"
 J. Henry Roraback-Thls is a matter not to be passed upon too hastily either one way or the other. There seems to be great deal of merit in what the ladies propose. do not believe MT. Reed, MT. Fuller, or anybody else wants to turn this proposition down if it means just what it says it does. Ii this heater can bo installed for the money the ladies are willing to raise. and the hall heated without greater expense than at present, 1 do not believe We want to refuse that offer. If, on the other hand, it entails tsarlng the hall to pieces and spending $l ,000, that is another proposition. If it is going to cost $500 more for heating than with the present method, that prop, osition should be considered. It seems | to me we are all at sea. The ladies have made proposition as to what they are willing to do; the gentlemen on the other side say it cannot be done. We should not turn down q proposition of 1 this kind that is not going to cost any thing without knowing what we are do- ing. Neither do we want to spend $500 or $1, ,000 year more than we are now spending. Therefore, move that a com- mittee of three, consisting of Horace Holt, A. J. Wigglesworth and George S. Fuller, be appointed, to make a careful examination and report at an adjourned mseting one week from today"
 MT. Fuller emphatically declined to serve, and the name of John Van Deu- sen was suggested in his stead.
 J. H. Lansing-"This matter has been referred to as a great kindness on the part of the ladies. You have heard of people being killed by kindness. It is wrong to give m m a present of any thing that entails an expense he cannot afford to pay. We have no hall to put Q heater in. The structural condition of the building does not warrant it. While we would like the heater we cannot af- ford to have 1t, as 1t wlll entail an eX- pense where the kindness would te d.t rlment to us."
 George s. Fuller-"It we just Ill a cheap heater, we will do poor job that we will curse ourselves for as long as we live. We will have to spend lot of money getting the building ready for the heater. E. R. Lorrain says this hall cannot be prepared for heating for less than $l ,000. You can't do it for S400, i When you talk about putting a $40O heater ill this barn and heating this room, it Is absolutely impossible. I do not care what heater man says he can dc 1t. There are cracks around the win lows that you can throw a cat through. You might as we'll put a furnace ill the side of Cooper Hill, and try to heat the whole town of North Canaan with it."
 J. Henry Misunderstanding what MT. Fuller says, courtesy de: mands that we treat this matter in the proper manner. If we are wrong, let us find it out; if the ladies are wrong, let us be able to tell them 90 in some way beside the rambling opinion of someone here; then we oau have a report that states facts and figures and we oan eat the matter intelligently."
 J. B. Reed-"These men who are here to-day have left their work to come here and settle this matter. It mas been before us for weeks, and five men, three selectmen and two men on the advisory committee, have examined this matter