The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-13
IS BURR TRYING TO KEEP MUSS
 STIRRED UP?
Allegation of Rockwell is Plainly
 to This Effect.
Putnam Park Tempest Will Not Down-DeIaney Still on Job
 as Caretaker.
Special to the Farmer.)

Bedding, April 13.-s'AIr. Burr seems bound to keep a muss stirred up Al though president of the commission he cannot command a majority of the members and failing to get his own way in everything and particularly in : his desire to get rid of Caretaker De- saaney he walls and shrieks in the newspapers. do not charge him with actual falsifying but he certainly does } not tell the whole truth and he dis : torts facts in a. way which amounts to misrepresentation. His conduct IS E petty, ungentlemanly and discourteous to his associates"
 of Ridgedeld, the new superintendent ! of Putnam Park. Your correspondent found him at the park Monday after noon overseeing some improvement { work, and invited his attention to a two column article published in last Saturdays Danbury News oyer tnS ne westport. MT. Rockwell went over the slip and made a running fire Of : ticIe is the latest of several from Mr. , Burr, all criticiZing the conduct and condition of affairs at the park In 8. personal letter to MT Rockwell MT Burr says that it is the first of se- ries of like manifestos or fulminat1ons which announcement indicates that the himself with war paint and purposes making things as unpleasant as he can for the new superintendent, and of course for the caretaker likewise Referring to this MT. Rockwell said it reminded him of the fable about the fly which alighted on the ox's horn and was solicitous about the harm it might be doing there The point made by the superintendent was that MT. Burr was more pestiferous than fornid-
 The wrangle in the Putnam Park Commission began at the organiza- tIon meeting last July with Delaney Q a central flRJ1TR of the cOntrO- versy- MT. Parker, a landscape arch dtect of Hartford and former member comprehensive plan for continued de veIopment work at the park. This plan comprised recommendation for changes in some of the features com pleted or under way. and advised that the caretaker be supplanted by man better skilled in landscape work The conflict. Isaac N. Bartram of Sharon, who in 1887 first urged upon the Leg hslature the acquisition and preserva- tion by the State of the grounds where General Israel Putnam and his forces passed the winter of 1778-9, and who has since been conspicuously identified promptly came to MT. De1aney's de- fence The latter had been in MT. before being made caretaker at the rark through MT. Bartram's influence. w. H. Hill of this town. lined up with the sharon man on Delaneys side. and so did Fiber A. Hodge of Danbury. On the other side were Mr. Burr, Charles D. Keith Of Bridgeport, and Charles W. Pickett of New Haven MT. Rockwell was not present at this meeting but at subsequent meeting came out as a supporter of Delaney with whom he had had no previous acquaintance. MT. Rockwell took this stand through being convinced by talks with residents of this town and Bethel that Delaney had done useful and faithful service in the past and was perfectly competent to carry out the to a test of strength between the two fancy side won out by a vote of four to two. MT. Pickett was not present at this meeting. President Burr and MT. Keith being the minority mem bers. Clearing this explanatory pass age we return to MT. Rockwell and his comments.
 s'Mr. Burr states" he went on, e.tI1at the Parker plans are jeopardized by what has happened, leaving any one to infer if they chose that these plans have been cast aside and that I am fndulgfng in harmful landscape vagar- fes in go as you please style. Now wish to emphasize as strongly as pos sible the fact that my sole guide in what I am doing and intend to do is the plan presented by MT. Parker and endorsed by the commission. shall have no other guide unless by vote of the commission. MT. Burr covers so much ground in his article, so much of it relating to trivial matters and