The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-18
NEWTOWN

l Newtown, April 1s-The furniture of
 P S. Carey of New York, who bought 1 the John Hurley property, arrived in | town by auto truck today. Besides the parents there are four children, | three sons and one daughter, in the
 family. who will make a welcome ad- l dit1on to the population of Sandy | Hook
 John l.. Sanford is convalescing from
 an attack of tonsi1itis which kept him
 from business a few days this week. | There will be a requiem mass in St.
 Roses, Saturday morning at o'clock,
 for the late William C.. Corbett.
 Mrs. Daniel McNamara of Sandy
 New York, today. Her children went
 last week.
 President D. c. Peck and c. B. Tay-
 Tor of the Savings Bank returned last
 night from a business trip in the in-
 terests of the institution.
 Merchant L. c. Morris has joined the
 ranks Of autoists directly by the pur- l chase of a new Pope-Hartford four
 cylinder, five passenger car, through l the agency of Allan Joyce.
 Wm. H.. Wake1ee sold this week an Overland touring car to H Carlton
 Hubben of the borough.
 Arthur Beard, the leader of the
 Sandy Hook band, was in Bridgeport
 Thursday on business. Charles Beard 1 and wife made it the occasion for a
 pleasure trip the same day.
 The borough caucus as per charter was held last night at the Brick build ing. There were two notable innova-
 tions: There was an attendance of for
 ty voters and the nominations were
 made by ballot, as the charter pre-
 scribes. Dr. F. J. Gale was made
 chairman, and c. F. Beardsley, clerk of the caucus by ballot The first
 surprise was the nomination of Char les G. Peck as warden, and his cleo l4sz I,x t1oo n Q instructing the clerk to cast one bal lot for him. w. B. Glover was teller The nominee for warden was the choice of the Hillside Club, and it IS
 understood that his position on the
 water contract is for a reasonable re-
 ductton in the price of $3O annually
 for each hydrant large and small, as
 provided for in the old contract which expired by time limitation July l. 1912, and has never been renewed. The
 price will undoubtedly be lowered at the borough meeting May 6. But at present the state of affairs Is such that in case of fire the ofTfclals of the Water Company could refuse the fire fighters the use of the water, as the company owns the hydrants.
 It is not thought that the Water Com
 pany would do such a thing in the
 event of a conf1a grafton. If the wa ter system was owned by the borough,
 parsimony would not have prevented a DJlT1flCaG1On or the waters OI 4dOhLO11 pond the supply of the reservoir, dur ing the past six months when the char acter of the water furnished the pa irons of the Water Company has been
 bad. Also we would not be in this
 state of insecurity in case of 8, fire. Owning the water and the hydrants, our firemen would see to 1t that the hydrants would at all times be eff cient While the new nominee for
 warden has not progressed to that stage that he will endorse public ownership of this public utility, his friends say he is in favor of a reason able price for the protection of water
 in fighting fire, and will not stand for the rates of the old contract. The burgesses nominated are Eli B. Beers, F. J. Gale A. B. Bla.keman, Wm. J.
 Beecher and Cornelius B. Taylor. The first three nominees for burgesses are not officers of the Water Company; neither is the warden. So a majority of the legislative officers of the bor- ough vii stand by the warden, thus insuring the borough O fair and square deal in any business relations dele
 gated to them by the borough meeting, or placed on them as public duty by the charter. The rest of the ticket
 are mostly all renominations, and are; Bailiff, P. H. Cannon; fire inspectors w. A. Leonard, H. M. Tieman, P. H.
 Cannon; street inspectors, F. J. Pitz-
 schler, A. P. Smith, Thomas Carlson; pound keeper, W. B. Glover; assessors
 L. c. Morris, A. F. Smith; board of re- lief. R. H. Beers, Frank Wright; tax collector, P. H. Cannon; registrar and | clerk, c. F. Beardsley; auditors, A. J.
 Smith, Walter w. Finch. The meet ing was harmonious, but the public | apathy has departed in the affairs of
 Newtown borough and a real public sentiment is developing.
 Newtown, April IS. Editor Farmer: Sir-At the present
 session of the General Assembly the l Housatonic Water Power Company,
 one Of the contributing causes of de-
 New York, New Haven and Hartford
 Railroad Company, introduced an
 amendment to their franchise to dam
 the Housatonic river at Little York,
 about three miles above Sandy Hook, granted in 1899, which asks for new location two and a half miles down | the stream, and the further privilege | of an increase in height from 30 to 45 | feet. The exact spot of location is be- | tween the railroad bridge and Ben 1 nett's bridge known the Shingle Or l Bar. This dam will flood 2 1-2 miles of
 river front and roadway owned by the
 town of Southbury, and about 300 acres | of valuable land and two farm houses | and buildings on the Newtown side of | the stream. At a recent legislative | hearing a. delegation went from this vicinity in opposition, but it was a
 useless errand. As proof of the fact l that the railroad can control legisla- ton it is pointed out that the company
 last fall surveyed the spot, made the | soundings, and acquainted the prop 1 erty holders of their intentions to
 build the dam here three months be- l fore the Legislature met. With the
 granting of this privilege every avail
 able water power on the Iousatonic l +4 IA ATH.e o1T1 1 line will be owned by the grant mon
 opoly which is laying hold of every natural resource of the state forever. ] And the people of Connecticut are let 1 ting them do it without one cent for l the franchises, and lettering them | selves and their descendants without