The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-16
MONEY FOR STATE ROAD ALLOTTED TO
 NORTH MAIN ST.
Stratford Citizens in Largely At tended Town Meeting Decide
 Question
Special to The Farmer,

Stratford, May 16-By vote of e2o to 143 the citizens Of stratford last night voted to spend the appropria- ton of $s,soo for Improvements o, the state roads of the town on North Main street rather than upon Broad street. It was only after a spirited discussion Of the merits of the case that the citi- zens finally decided to take a vote on the matter with the result as stated
 The meeting at which the matter of the highway appropriation was thresh- ca out was by far the largest town meeting held in Stratford in months Every inch of floor space in the hall was taken and men were standing on the window stills, in all the ante-roon1s and even out on the sidewalk in front of the building
 There were many advocates of the Broad street proposition and fully s4s many advocates of the North Main street proposition who spoke in the meeting. Excellent arguments were presented to the meeting by both sides and it was only because the North Main street residents managed to show that they had put up patient ly with abominab1e conditions in their section of the town for several years past, that they got the appropriation, when the matter was put to a vote.
 
 great deal more traffic Is accommo- dated on North Main street than upon Broad street and when they stated that the new highway commissioner had agreed to carry the road work through to completion if it was started on North Main street, many decided that 1t would be best to vote to begin work on the street with the $8. 800 which has been appropriated rather than to wait for the street to be fixed up out of the 5000, GOO. trunk line ap- propriation which is now before rne legislature
 As is usually the case in a Strat- ford town meeting there was the cus- tonary discourteousness on the part of some of the citizens present who tried to prevent a man from speaking by hooting, stamping their feet, etc, simply because his views on the sub ject under discussion did not agree with their views on the matter When some of the North Main street sym pathizers started these tactics last night and tried to boot down F. B. Conine when he was simply stating his views on the matter and showing why the money should be spent on Broad St., Judge Charles H. Peck, who was chairman of the meeting, said that if the men did not come to order and stop stamping their feet on the floor the authorities would put them out of the hall. The funny part of it was that two of the StratfoFd constables and many of the best known citizens of the town who should be the last ones to stoop to such small boy tac- tics, were the ones who were stamp ing their heels the hardest and the ones who seemed the most unwilling to stop making the disturbance.
 Among the speakers who lined up on either one side or the other on the appropriation matter were Thomas McQuillan, Fred Van De Bogart, Rich ard Stanton, Walter Hubbell, Willian Bassett, F. E. Conine, Fred Starr Beardsley,s Elliott Peck and many others
 The citizens unanimously voted to establish a curb line in front of Will liam B Tutt1e's place at the corner of Main and Church streets.