The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-09
BEDDING FONDLY CONTEMPLATES LAND SCHEME OF VAST MAGNITUDE
THE AIM TO PROVIDE AN ELYSIUM TO WHICH
 THE TRULY CULTURED WILL FLOCK.
incidentally There's Wealth in it for Present Land Own ers-Welcome Highbrows, Avaunt Highballs No Trolley Hotel Factory, But Only Rural Beauty and Repose

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 MT. Tomlinson next draws a gloomy picture if outside speculators. actuated by greed, acquire large tracts of the land and dispose of it indiscriminately to all corners. The preventive remedy lies with the present proprtetors who should get together and command the situation. Exclusiveness can be pre- served by having one person act as sole agent and incidentally pass on the desirability of all applicants. Then MT. Tomlinson proceeds to unfold in detail the business asrecte of his scheme. First of all 1t contemnlates a capi- talist as the boss contractor or in theatrical parlance as the Angel He is to do. at his own expense, all the preliminary work of development and exploitation. the cost of this being esti-
 mated at from s50.0O0 to $75 000.f The
 land owners, the other subscribing parties to the agreement or contract, will not be called upon for cent. MT. 1Tomlinson suggests that these sub- Fscribers exclude from the plan their homes and such portions of the farm as they may wish to continue to culti- vate although they may include every thing if so disposed. The allotted por- ton, including the woodland, should be divided into two sections of equal value and a price placed upon it, this price being double per acre the present price per acre of the farm as a whole. There shoul1 then be executed contract by which the capitalist receives an option at this price for five years upon one half the portion allotted or set aside. The owner may sell his reserved half at any time within the five years but must give the boss contractor the first chance to buy. The owner shall have the use of all the allotted portion until it is sold To facilitate the general purposes of the plan the assenting land owners are to form 8 corporation to which all contracts shall be assign ed. which shall always be under the control of the people of Bedding and shall go on forever.
 Can the ttangep' in the case be found? MT. Tonlinson thinks he can. The proposed contract will impose up- on him a whole lot of obligations. To begin with he must have surveyed and mapped the allotment tracts, make provisions for the necessary roads and do other preliminary work looking for ward to a vast and harmonious plan of future Improvements. It is esti- mated that this preliminary work will take a year after which time the buy CTS will come thronging forward and the golden tide begin to flow in. Part of the proposed preliminary work is the taking of about 5000 photographic views from which 1000 are to be select ed for reproduction in a volume com prising also explanatory and descrip- tive text. This is designed to be a sumptuous work of at least thousand pages and to include a history of the region, detailed description of it's beauties and full recital of the plan. 1t would be necessary to have paint ingS made of the larger prospects as they may be adequately photographed. The volume while intended primarily for advertising purposes is expected al- so to be salable at a profit.
 To carry out the conservation and improvement features of the scheme provision is made for the creation of q trust administered by nine directors a majority of them to be residents of Reddfng and three of whom shall be appointed by the corporation, three by the selectmen. and three by the boss contractor. Their chief financial re- sources will come from trust fund derived through the diversion to it of 25 per cent of all the money received by the capita1ist packer from land sales. MT. Tomlinson estimates that this fund will soon yield yearly in- come of from $15.000 to $20,000 He would have the trustees acquire by purchase. donation or long lease all the water courses and the bordering land
  ever for the common benefit: Where ever practicable dams should be con and lakelets formed. Thus each valley would have closely strung chain of lake capable of utiIization as a source of water supply for the resi- dents.
 These water courses should always be accessible to the farmers cattle and open for fishing to every resident and his guests but all others should be ex- cluded. At the same time MT. Tomlin- son would have no hunting in the pro- posed elysium except for the destruc- tion of predatory animals It is also proposed that the trust acquire by purchase or otherwise all the woodland and waste land possible outside the home sites. the major portion to be left in it's natural condition. changes being made only with the consent of class landscape engineer acting in con cert with an advisory committee of the cultured and artistic residents.
 The trust should give to all contigu- ous landowners the right to all fallen trees and the right to cut standing timber, although under salutary re- strlct1ons. All the residents and their resident guests would have free access and enjoyment of all trust lands and forests with free right to gather nuts berries and flowers. but all others should be excluded. The trust is fur Lher expected to use it's power and in- Huence to preserve the quaint appear ance or the farms with their pictures que stone fences. the old trees, the old hasnloned gardens. the ancient grave yaros. some good modern roads should De built. but MT. Tomlinson regards the old country highways, steep, rough ana rocky as they are, the narrow lanes the rough wooden bridges and the ancient houses far more beautiful than any so-called modern improve ments, adding that the entire aim of the trust should be to preserve forever the atmosphere and flavor of the old rural New England. From a search in all the old records, town. CO., and state histories. biographies and grave yards he would collect every bit of history attaching to the region and locate every spot of historic interest to be held as common heritage. There should be gathered and preserved in museum and otherwise characteristic old furniture, china, vehicles and other memorials of old Bedding life.
 Here are a few of Mr. Tomlinson's other ideas: Limit the quantity of land sold to any one purchaser to ten acres except under extraordinary circunn- stances; grade prices so as to virtually oner a premium to men of genius with limited means and make up for this concession by causing the cultured rich to pay heavily: 8 stipulation in the deeds that no hotel, still or factory be permitted. that no electric or other railroad be built and that no place be