The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-18
TROLLEY co.
 WINS A POINT
 IN STAMFORD
Town Meeting Rescinds Former Ac-
 ton on East Broadway.
MATTER NOW IN HANDS
 OF THE SELECTNLEN
Triangular Struggle Between the TroI- ley Interests and Residents of East Broadway and JudsOn
 Place Gets War CT.
Especial to The Farmer)

East Broadway that only the initiated were able to discern the real animus
 of the contentious. The residents of East Broadway who don't want any trolley tracks on that street and much less two as proposed by the Connecti- cut company fought the trolley com pany and also the residents of Judson
 Place who are opposed to any tracks
 on that street.
 The meeting was opened by Town ! Clerk Lowell, who chose Elliot W. Peck as chairman. He proved fully competent to handle the complicated situation. Frederick $. Beardsley as the first speaker and he outlined the situation. He is a resident of Judson Place. After giving the history of the trolley tracks on East Broadway he told of the special act of the last Leg islature which gives the trolley com pany the right to lay tracks on Judson Place and Elm street unless the town agrees to allow double tracks on East Broadway before Dec. 1 of this year. MT. Beardsley said that the Connecti- cut company had agreed to lay wood blocks between the rails, install cement
 curb and gutters, catch-basfns and also to pave the street with biolithic pavement. After MT. Beardsley's state ment the meeting resolved itself into a general roasting match in which the l residents of East Broadway and Jud- son place alternated attacks upon each other with an united attack upon the Connecticut company.
 States Attorney Stiles Judson pro posed that the meeting adjourn for one week to give time for a committee to wait the officials or the New Haven road and resuscitate the proposed road through the meadows for which the town had already appropriated S, 500. Robert Brandt called attention to the fact that there are ''new comers'' in the town and famed the class line suggestion into a flame. He said he hoped that the residents of HolIister
 Heights and other outlying sections would not be such 'tcheap guys as to
 sell themselves to the trolley company.
 He said that he had hear I'd that ennis
 saries of the Connecticut company had
 been at work on the outskirts and he
 hoped that they would hold them
 selves against the. temptations to which
 they had been subjected and vote
 against the trolley at every oppor-
 tunity. His talk evidently did the
 East Broadway people little good, for
 several voters from the outskirts who
 were willing to. refrain from voting
 and let the warning interests at the Center fight it out amongst themselves
 suddenly changed their plans and vot-
 ed to change curb lines on East Broad way, which really meant that the troll ley company should have the right to double track that street. Dr G F. LEWIS was n6aTd at length as against the removal of the present curb lines.
 An amusing feature of the meeting was the attitude of the Bassett broth CTS of Hollister Heights One is a con- | ductOr on the trolley and the other is l the ubiquitous and energetic constable 1 who has made so much trouble for the
 neglectfu1 motorists passing through | the town. The trolley man wore his
 uniform and made no bones of his at l titude on the matter His brother 1 wanted a little better service on Bar l mum avenue and said he thought the 1 trolley company should begin to do something for the town before asking | any favors.
 l The resembling of the former action | Of the voters in 8 town meeting held in 1 1912 was necessary to allow the widen 1 ing of the street This was fought by l the residents of East Broadway The
 residents of Judson Place were not 1 willing to relieve their neighbors on | the north to the extent of having | tracks on that thoroughfare In vain 1 1t was asserted that, the company nev- i CT intended to use Judson Place and | that the proposition was a subterfuge l to arouse an antagontsm which would clear the way East Broadway Me1gS B. Russell a newspaperman re- | siding on Elm street, offered a reoIu- | tion resembling the action of the for 1 111er town meet1ngSfX1ng curb lines on East Broadway. An fnterminable dis
 cuesion which tired out those who had
 worked hard all day followed. Grand Juror Ivan Morehoefse was the most active spokesman for this faction liv- l ing on East Broadway and he accused | the residents of Judson Place of bad l faith The main issue was kept in | sight by that faction, that the widen | ing of East Broadway really meant l two tracks for the tro1leys. On this | basis the vote was ordered by ballot 1 The result was 116 yeas and 112 nays. | First Selectman Rollin B. Curtis called 1 attention to the act which granted the i trolley company the right to double | track East Broadway if the town did
 not allow tracks on Judson Place and | Elm street before Dec. 1. This act | dceS not confer the power of the final l upon the se1ectmen. It was evident l that the great mass of the big crowd | did not understand this, for most of l them went home before the seIectmen l held their hearing which was adver- l tieed to follow the town meeting. The 1 vote, however, gave a fair idea of the
 sentiment of the town concerning the
 matter.
 The hearing of the se1ectmen which
 came immediately after the town
 meeting was attended by less than
 half of those who had been at the town | meeting They were advocates or the i new road scheme aTmost to a man. | First Selectman Curtis said that he I did not care to hear from those who l favored two tracks on East Broad way. He wanted to hear the opposi- ton. He was wise, for the voters from the outlying districts had gone home to
 recover from the foul air and intense heat of the town hall. MT. Brandt made an appeal to compel the select
 men to accept the action of the hear ing as, final and decide the matter as
 those present indicated. He failed, for
 First Se1ectman Gurus said that the se1ectmen would undoubtedly be guid- ed to a great degree by the action of
 that hearing The vote when taken
 was viva voce and there were few dis