Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-16
Iished. and many semi-aauatic shtrao- fiouz

uons,
 Then came consideration of the building of a highway from Pleasant View to WsekaPaug. Attorney Arthur B. Crafts made a long plea in favor of the project He referred to the rapid growth and future prospects of Pleasant View and asked that appro- pr1atton be made rather as an invest ment than as an obligation to the tax payers of Pleasant View. He said thirty new buildings had been erected there during the year that will prob ably be taxed to bring 8 revenue to the town of about s700 The town is asked to build the highway from
 Pleasant View to Weekapaug at an
 expense of about s5,000. This sum
 could be hired at per cent. a year, and yield a good profit to the town
 as an investment. He had no doubt
 but this new highway would result in
 the erection of cottages all along the
 line, es the highway would be parallel
 with the trolley road. He predicted
 that within five years every dollar laid
 out by the town would be repaid and
 without the present taxpaying prop
 erty paying out one cent for the i'm provement, but that 1t would all come from the new taxpayers The lots
 there are not now accessible, bllt
 would be made so by the new high
 way. He stated that the taxpayers of
 Pleasure View were not receiving any
 school benefits or police protection, but
 they were entitled to some municipal
 recognition, though there was already 1 a supply of city water. the best in the world, and electric light and trolley %ha could dream of even nine years ago. MT. Crofts said that the highway des- tgnated on maps Is Atlantic avenue. was laid out years ago and that now the town was asked to make this highway a reality. The people at | Pleasant View wanted a road thirty feet wide, so that there would be am i pie room for automobile traffic. and did not want it done by halves. but by whole With this highway and the at- | fractions to be offered by the Norwich & Westerly Traction company will at tract at least 1000 daily to Pleasant l View and just few of these will i like the place so well that they will | buy lots and build cottages and add | to the grand list of the town, After referring in glowing terms to the nat l ural and safe beach, he urged the tax
 payers present to do the right thing and not on such an economic basis that 1t will be folly.
 Samuel Fl, Davis made a motion that | tha sum of s6,000. or so much thereof as may be necessary, be apportioned l fer the repair of Atlantic avenue from
 Pleasant View to Weekapaug, under | the direction of the town council with
 recommendation that the road be at
 least g feet in width.
 Capt. William F. Saunders, a Iarus l property owner at Pleasant View, was l opposed to the motion as made bv | MT. Davis. He said if the road was 1 to be P feet in width the cost would
 be between $10.O0O and s15,OO0. He wanted to have the road built right
 so that later on the road would be in | condition for the modern tar dress ing He offered a substitute motion | that a committee of three be appoint , ed to investigate the whole matter. and to ascertain if the abuttfng own CTS win do the grading and prepare l the road for gravel and report to a future meeting of the freemen of 1 Westerly.
 MT. Crofts spoke in opposition, and ! claimed that the town council was ! better qualified to act than any spe- | cial committee. Then followed g. long
 discussion in which Messrs. Crofts and
 Saunders were Joined by Thomas H. | Peabody, John W. Sweeney and Milo 1 M Clarke. When Mir. Saunders real l ized that his proposition was not fa-
 yored. he suggested that the asked