The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-27
Some Questions that the Electors Wish
 Mayor Lee to Answer


 uance of the city harbor line gives to the New Haven Railroad Com pany the right to fill in and to use for railroad purposes some Il acres of harbor?
 Is it not true that the discontin- uance of the same line gives to the Locomobile Company of America the right to fill in some 25 acres of harbor opposite Seaside Park?
 Has not the president of the Park Board announced that this will be an injury to- Seaside Park and that the Council must pass legislation to prevent the injury occurring?, Is not the territory which the Locomobile Company may fill in substantially the same granted to them in 1905 by the General As sembly in the bill for which you voted, not understanding, as you afterward said. what it meant?
 Is the grant to the Locomobile Company practically of the same territory which the Legislature had given in 1905, but took away in 1907, upon the representation of leading citizens of Bridgeport that great injury would be done to Seaside Park if the gift should not be re- pealedt?
 What injury could the Locomo- bile Company do to Seaside Park under the law of 1905 that they cannot do to it now by filling in the harbor turned over to them by your repeal of the city line? Was the LocomobiIe Company of America represented at all ofa theA public hearings, in favor of the repeal of the city line. and did the president of the company name one of the committees that afterward attempted to adjudicate in favor of such repeal?
 Do you know who drafted the Little Joker legislation which com pels Bridgeport hereafter to pay damages when harbor lines are laid?
 Do you know how the original draft of the Little Joker got among the charter amendments in your office? Do you know how it happened that after you had described the Little Joker as a "clerical error" it ap- peared in Hartford, in the same form in which it existed in your office and became a law, without any effort of yours to prevent?
 Do you believe that the electric light investigation should be dis continued?
 How do you account for the fact that the electric light company which supplies only S7,00O people of Springfield with electric light is taxed upon valuation of $1 1,40O,- coo, while the electric light com pany which supplies 100000 people in Bridgeport is only taxed upon little more than s30O,00O on the list of 1908?
 Is all the tax equalization you 2, have accomplished like this equali- zation?
 Or do you claim that the property of the electric light monopoly is only worth ssO0,OoO in Bridgeport?
  Congress street bridge not given to the lowest bidder?
 Why was the contract with the high bidder drawn so that the clause requiring the bridge to be on Nov. cannot be en-. forced?
 Why has the paving of Main street between Golden Hill street and Fairfield avenue been put over for another year?
 Is it to give the New Haven rail- road a chance to make another fight for ten foot centers?
 Why did you permit the electric light monopoly to tear up Main street without a permit from the Common Council?
 Why did you give permission to the Connecticut Company to lay their tracks on ten foot centers on Main street at Golden Hill, when you had no lawful right to give the permission and the Council had de- aied it