The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-14
PUBLIC OPINION
THE TOWN FARM,

Editor of The Farmer, Sir:
| Not one-t tenth Of one per cent. of the
consequence of the parks, neither will
| any future one come because of any
parks. The season covers only three
| months for those who walk. The
| create use is for the owners of auto
mobiles and horses. The buying Of
Fairweather Island was very COM
mendable move The appropriation to
| keep up the parks is it should be,
I the issuing of interest bearing mort
cages should be left till the 100000 are
| here. The present political nanipula-
| tors are totally incompetent to think
| out what would suit the 100000.
Bridgeport lies on a sloping water
| shed, from the shore to the Terry
| Farm one and one-half miles North
| and one-hundred feet above low wa
! ter. Every farmer in this county
knows that six-foot sewer from low
water up Main st to North Ave-
| would take all sewerage that now en-
tels the harbor and would carry it
when three million people were here,
! and the law OF gravity would do the
work. It has the stamp of ignorance to
propose to expeld five million dollars
for pumping machinery and an an
nua1 expense of $500, 900 to pump the
sewerage a half mile. 1t doesn't seem
possible that Bridgeport has any men
of such cursed ignorance as to advo-
cate such a thing. This language
doesn't do the subject justice.
AS to the State street bridge, L will
build two traffic tubes, a trolley car,
wagon way and foot walk in each.
the travel in each all one way, from
Broad St, at Gilbert to East Main St
This will appeal to every person who
has to cross the ha,rbor-the City to
build one and the trolley Company the
other A vote to mortgage the city
for this can be carried. It will hit
the 100, 900; also. the prospective 800,
900. 1t will pay the interest from the
day it IS in use 1t can be built in a
year. AS to crossing the harbor in
any other way,I quote old Wander
bits remark to Westinghouse, viz. ST
have no time or patience to talk to
Vanderbilt swallow that remark AS
to the Aim shouse, the farm contains
a. hundred acres The public want to
know whose axe is to be ground to buy
more land, and what do you want to
move the town, farm for? Is it be-
cause you are afraid the powder
houses and cartridge factories will ex-
plode ana exterminate the paupers?
Let me tell the jusgler you cannot sell
that farm and take the money and re-
place it. The Water Company will
not let you put that farm anywhere
on the water shed that covers the di-
vide to their supply. The present
sewerage is satisfactory. $4,000 viii
build a concrete house 100 feet square
This gives 10000 square feet of cellar
10000 square feet of first floor, max
ing an interior square of forty feet in
the second floor; for light and venti1a-
ton gives $500 square feet of floor.
There would be $50 1fneaI feet of sides
for windows on the second floor.
made in Bridgeport is a good slo-
gan; but when the teaching Board and
the other board have to go QUIT of town
for competent directors, it looks
though that kind of stock were not
made here When you go TO Now York
N. z, for a policeman, where police
officials are associated with murder
ers and grafters. to come here to in
stall the practice of New York City, it
is hard case. Why not go to Aus
tralia for a full complement of Eng
land Ticket of Leave men to run
the city? Send an order to Scotland
Yard for a detail of police? I never
saw any reason to find fault with the
police administration we have had.
Now a word as to the High School
building. Should any plan be made
or accepted in which heating is done
by fIreI burned inside of the building
an injunction will be served on such
a proposal. The people who pay for
it and send pupils all know as much
as the factory owners who heat their
ia ctories with no interior fires
There certainly should be built a
bridge and soon a four track and
eight-foot sidewalks swing draw bridge
that will carry 80 to 100 ton locomo-
tives at Arctic ST.