The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-11
HILL TRANSFERS
$4OO TO SELF
Counsel Says Treasurer Had no
Right to do it---Ech0 of Short
age in Accounts Of Redding
Town

Redding, May 11-That Town Treas
srer Hill, In transferring to himself
$500 of town funds by way Of reim-
bursement for an alleged over-pay-
ment to make good q shortage, acted
without legal warrant, was the opin-
ion expressed by Attorney S. G. Shaw
when consulted about the matter by
First Se1ectman Sanford. In fact, Mr..
Shaw says that in doing what he did
the treasurer laid himself open to the
charge of technical ENLIGHTENMENT, al
though not embezzlement in the full
and criminal significance of the term
The next move on the part of the
town will be an effort to recover the
money or at least to seek judicial de-
termination of the disputed RESPONSE
bilfty for the existing shortage, as
such responsibility lies between Mr..
Hill and ex-Collector Gorham. What
ing this result Mr.. Shaw was not inn
mediately prepared to say, but took
the subject under consideration and
will definitely advise the selectmen at
an early date.
The final word has at last come
from Highway Commissioner Macdon-
aid regarding the construction pro-
gram for the Ridge road. At the
upper part there are to be a total of
1850 feet of telford in two sections
separated by a dirt section of $50 feet.
North from the Ridge school house
and north from Greenbaum & Klein's
store there will also be stretches of
telford, each 800 feet in length. so that
the $500 feet to be built altogether
win consist of alternate strips of good
and inferior. Why such a plan should
have been decided upon there seems
TO be no possible explanation because,
save for the stretch near the school
house. the sections for which a stone
base Is ordered need that style of con-
struction no more than the others.
Possibly the design of Mr.. Macdonald
is to provide an object lesson in road
building, one that will enable him to
point to the telford in the patchwork
series and proclaim, Behold here an
example of what a main line road
should be- Then as his auto strikes
the rufs and mire of an Intervening
patch he will utter. BETTING COM
ment to the effect that there is now
encountered a striking and horrible
example of what road sshould not
be. Unless some such object was the
governing influence with the commits
sioner mere whims and vagaries and
not a single and consistent purpose
must have determined the plans. Ger
tainly he has not made good his as
surance to Representative Bradley
that the local officials should have all
the telford they wanted. Neither is
the lack of funds an explanation, as
the Job will not take half the appro-
priation now standing to the towns
credit.
A distinguished party of New York
capitalists and business magnates
spen. Sunday at Sunset Hill as the
guests of Commodore Luttgen, making
also an inspection of Wiantenuck. the
summer estate of Representative L.
D. Peck In the party were Herbert
II. Vreeland, former president of the
Hedley. vice president and general
manager of the Interborough Railway
Co: Richard r. Rogers and J. L.
Quackenbush.f counsel for the Inter-
borough: E. J. Gaynor, the same COM
pany's controller; Alfred Skitt, gem
eral manager of the New York Ele-
waited; w. o. Wood, capitalist, and w.
Leon Peppermint, assistant to Presi-
dent Theodore W. Shonts of the Inter
borough. All the visitors were de-
lighted with the Sunset Hill country
They came particularly to look over
the former Eddy place on the north
slope of the hill just over the Redding
line which Mr. Pepperman recently
bought from a man named Johnson
who has charge of Commodore Lutt-
gems boats. Mr.. Pepperman will
c-7ct a bungalow on the place and
also stables and house for his hired
man. Several years ago Miss J. L.
Glider bought the property for Eliza
beth Maybury, the broker In thea
trical productions, but as the latter