The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-13
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 that reply in full detail is difficult and seems hardly worth while. There are the personal filings at myself for instance. He says voted for myself at an unnamed salary as if desire for peeunfary gain moved me to seek the position, that I claim to have no spe- cia1 knowledge of the work to be done commission have paid bills not author ized as required by the bylaws took the superintendency as tempor- ary expedient to tide over an ener- gency. Certainly the prospective emol- uments did not entice me, as I under stand the acting superintendent has received B a. day for his services. and am not hunting jobs for such com pensation. While I claim no particu- lar skill in landscape work, have done more or less in that line all my life in improving property of my own: In this position, however, I do not originate lout merely execute carrying out ideas approved by the commission As to paying bills without full author ization, I plead guilty in one instance The bylaws require that all bills Tor supplies shall have the approval of majority of the commission The bill referred to was for saw and another Implement or two, and was $2.50 in amount. The bill was sent in by the secretary. had been approved by the auditor and, as the articles had been purchased three or four months before. made requisition for it's payment That. Mr. Burr should go to the at torney general about such a trivial i'm cident shows his mental ca1ibre. It is further shown by his criticism or Delaney for hiring a boy to do his work last winter while he Delaney) was, as MT. Burr puts it, incapaci- tated. Why didn't he say that MT. broken leg and that he broke it while engaged in his work here. The care taker probably got the best help avail- able and MT. Burr runs to the attorney general to know if the disabled man had authority to hire a substitute. He talks about peanut politics in the commission but apparently doesn't realize that in this article he is dis closing peanut like order of men tality.''
 MT Rockwell was asked about the laying out of ball ground in the park which MT Burr severely con demned and which Charles Burr Todd. Redding's historian and one of the early promoters of the park. consid- cred as nothing less than a desecra- tion.
 q knew nothing about that,'' replied MT. Rockwell. until it was under way. The proposition came from the Rogers & Feet recreation colony here. and when MT. Delaney laid the matter be- fore Messrs. Burr and Keith they told him to go ahead. Now MT. Burr re- pudiates it in horror and tries to place the blame elsewhere which strikes me as not being quite honest. Personally I see no harm in having a ball ground in the park, although my choice of 8 location for it would not be the pres ent one. The final say on the subject is with the commission. Probably if MT. Burr's suggestion for the placing of mems toilet near the main en- trance had been. carried out he would have repudiated that also. He is a great stickler for legal precision and regularity in the doing of things, and yet without any sanction from the secure a. man for caretaker, and as I understand it MT. Parker did engage a man named Brucker for the job.
 
 likewise without due authority. ordered Delaney to vacate the caretaker's didn't go and MT. Burr'S schemes hay ing come to naught he raises a howl in the newspapers and threatens to read his Criticisms that the park was being devastated, and that only com pliance with his notions and bossism could save it. Do you see any of this mutflation and negligence he talks about?''
 The correspondent didn't Every thing about the grounds was spick and span, furnishing an excellent example of spring cleaning. The work upon which MT. Rockwell was then engaged was at the knoll above the monument where a few rude slabs of stone mark the last resting place of some of Gem for q space about 100 feet square was being forked over preliminary to smoothing minor Irregularities and seeding down to provide a greensward. This is in accordance with the Parker plans. and changes made at the pool near the main entrance also conform to these plans. The lines of the pools banks have been made slightly irreg- ular and some boulders placed along to aid in giving a picturesque effect. The bandstand has been newly paint ed and ground bone will be freely used to stimulate the grass growth. MT. Rockwell said his idea was to make the place pleasant and attractive for the public, and that he did not share the sentiment that ball playing within the park limits was incompatible with the historic dignity of the place.
 In regard to MT. Burrs accusing in- timation that Delaney sometimes ac- cepted tips from visitors. MT. Rockwell said he hadn't considered the matter of importance enough to inquire into. eff he has, he continued, ''it wouldn't te as bad as the practice of tip talk ing said to exist on the part of higher State officials, our Senators or Repre- sentatives. for example. They may bs wrongly accused in this respect, and s0 perhaps is Delaney
 The next meeting of the Park Com mission will be held on Thursday of rext week. It promises to be inter esting.