The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-28
LOTS OF TALK ON FAIRFIELD ||:: AVENUE !
 PAVING CONDITION
But Streets and Sidewalks Com mittee Adjourns Without Getting Anything
 Under Way

talk. and then adjournment. Those
 were the net results of last nights
 meeting of. the Streets and Sidewalks
 committee, which meeting was for the tpurpose of taking up the Fairfield ave- tnue muddie: The meeting. however,
 was not altogether useless Members Eof the committee had an opportunity
 to learn some of the sentiments Of the property owners and business men of the city and these sentiments were ex- pressed in very direct and pointed manner. AS the hearing proceeded
 the arguments .pro and con waxed warmer and it was amid a blaze and burst of indignant protest against further delay that Chairman ,D6hieI E. Walker called the meeting adjourn. led. at 10:30 o'clock
 City. Clerk Boucher spoke about .tbull coming the Aldermen into receding from. their former action. = about
 technical spbterfuges, about .'edu-- tcatinG the public as to how worthless their laws ere when it comes to in- terference with corpora tions.Y .s.
 James M. Atlas, proprietor of the Atlas Hotel. then asked, Then this
 has 1t. MT. Chatham s:;T Before he .s.s Eot an answer which was son< the lips Of Clerk Boucher, he continued: I'm ! mot as marrow minded as. some of the others around here. Just becauSe if happens to be corporation which we are up aeainsts,isn t 4uy reason why ourselves for the bare .po6sihilitye Of eetting satisfaction from the corbora- ton. T don't belteve in brow rbeatS Ing a corporation any more fhan I do q person and especially where 1t will avaA nothing. A few patty dollars fI< &sa 1 to rconcedfnks < somef1lipG which viii bring far EreAter rreturns in other fthings. We can come here and hoIler all night but that will never accom- paish anything. All you've. been do- ling is te give us the same hope ever the Lords sake do apmething.'s 2. Audrey M. Cooner. vieesrreeident and general manegex of the Rowland Co.,, took . hand in the dtecusefon. He refharked In answer; tc C7erks Bou- cbsrs criticism of the lawH and rights company, that the board Of Aldermen foriginAlly gave the strolley company it's franchise and created the laws in the charter to govern the company. Mr. Boucher's reply was to the efIect that the conditions have greatly tchanged since the combany was sraitt- l ed ts franc1iss to operate electric There sseened to be q disposition on: the part 0f a, nna16ritY preGent to dis approxe o1 Mayor W11aout sQfopoSitfon | to withdraw the ctiyss 1Gtton from ! the courts. Erent tue ten f06t centers trolley compeny having offered to prominent sbaieinees men ssnl' at sthe meet FinE which took the form r hear-
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 of. FSiffisid Ano fspre3entsd rns s seSerai NsnS ERrOperty owners, and otherA Mayor fsWilBOn and Sthese 0ther city ofiicla1e; wore on hand: City Aftofuey Ps1ll-. [Man, City Engineer Terry, 1or1nef City Attorney Thomas M., Cnllinan. Assist- fP4vinE and Sewer Commission. and AFern4en John Fl. Lyddy and Robert O. DefAofest. 6upt. Charles H Chap man of the Connecticut Co. was, in
 Aldsrman walker called. the. meet A4A8s u O10ef o.4l 5O ClGEk. lCl0fk Boucher read the message of Mayor Wilson. After that Chairman Walker asked if there were any. .citizens who desired to be heard. Karl Cyrus rhe druggist at the corner of Court1aHd and; Fairfield avenue said he was very Emuch opposed to the pfoposition Of the Fmayor. He didn't want to sneak. as an obstructi0nist but he didflt think tthe property owners should be made
 to suffer the consequence of a nar-
 rover sidewalk, which meant that the few remaining trees would. have to be cut dowh He didn't see why this should be done simply for the trolley company which has. received so much confederation in the past. He said that the number of people who travel led on the sidewalks, especially at 6 o'clock at night and at noon was large
 and that the sidewalks on this avenue
 were already too narrow. Mir. Cyrus was decidedly opposed to ten foot
 centers. believing that they are not
 necessary.
 Attorney C1itus H. Kfng appeared for.
 several. property owners who had in-
 terests on Fairfield avenue He said
 that his clients were mot opposed to
 ten foot. ,centers or the heenarrowinE of
 the sidewalk providing the es trolley
 company in addition to standing the expenses of. cutting the curbs shorter
 also concede to lay grooved rails He.
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