Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-03-16
No. f In Which Sch1Uartz Tells
of His Troubles While Purchas-
ing Rght-of-W Way from Farmers,
and Especially 1Uith Pap" an Un-
lUashed Antique, and His Bone
head Son

.tN year. and that we are forced to
,r,n-c our capacity to take care of
.. presented ourselves in the at
I.tUlr of having to do this. That we
.. d. compelled by conditions to spend
.Jst sums t. enlarge our plant. we
..,rC driven to it and in reality we
.,lc unwilling purchasers of the strip
land needed.
After had presented the matter in
iiS way To the first farmer | visited, |
.a, pOintcdly informed that ne had
D., land for sale.
Nov, the land was in his wife S
name--a little forty-acre farmland
the poorest kind of place All We
needed of it was a strip of twenty feet
along d gully to give us room for fill,
and the ground was so poor along
there that grass would hardly grow on
il.
Il offered them three times the real
value, and ] knew they needed the
money.
after a little while the man was
willing to sell, but the woman would
not listen to it,
Il argued the case with her, and
told her as I told them all. that the
I'VE can take any property for the
operation of our trains, through con-
dcmnation proceedings. but we only
resort to the courts when everything
else has failed
so ] explained to the woman how
we would proceed if she did not sell it
to us. and how it would be to her profit
TO accept the figure | made her rather
than drive US to that extremity.
she was little wcczcn, shrunkcn
creature and saw she had a horror
of going to the court, still she would
not bulge an inch.
'Sho did not try to drive a bargain.
The price gave her. no concern. She
simply would not sell, and her reason
was the purely feminine ono of just
because
she Shea tears and became hys-
tcrical.
81 would soll anywhere else on the
farm except right there she cried.
we could not use a strip anywhere
else on the farm. We had to have the
twenty feet at the gully to widen our
fill. | tried to make her understand it
that way, but she was absolutely inn
movable.
1T puzzled me why she was willing
to part with 4 strip any other place.
but was SO unreasonable unyielding ar
the very spot We actually had to have.
The man did all he could for me,
but We made no headway with the wo-
man.
At length, he led me out behind the
log barn and made shamcfaCed con-
fession.
I'm ashamed of her, mister: | am.
for sure, he said, with a sort Of weak
eyed lowllness. It's just durn
cranky idce OF hcr'r. They amt eny
sense IL it. You know they's two old
| apple trees on that strip That's the
reason, IT'S them. They amt much
account. Her IA planted 'em there the
| day him and her ma was married
| They was two children. You know-my
wife and the one that died. They wus
raised under thcn trees.
Her IA ust to SAY he had four i'm
| his family Ann and SADIE and the
RAINBOW and the Pmpin tree And
mister if that woman has any sewing
or work of that kind to- do. when the
days are warm, y1ull always find her
right out there undcr that riplin-trec
| 'lain't the apples, mister; its cause
| of her VA. hone you won't tell eny
| one. mister; I'd hate for if to git out
| It 'ud kind - diseracr us. You see
you'd cut 'cm down. That's what wor-
lies her mister
OF assumed hin, wand CIV, rothiny
also aseurod huo tbat ,,o wonId
| d,on ,hn ,,,ttr, ,o,. tho ,rosoot ,ud
| rive her limo ia ,t.ne,,,n win ho,
| feolinos ! ,eft u.i,h tho u,n,nst oo,
tempt for mat shriyeIed husband whc