The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-25
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 Rsaa4ns.. Sept. sB-rne Bedding Protective League. which has been dormant for4seVera1 months, held a reaninatfon meeting at the town house last Saturday afternoon. About 30 attended. nearly. all of the summer resident class. & c. Shaw was called to the cfrair which he relinq uished to Daniel c Beard, the Leagues presi- dent, upon the 1atters arrival What to do next was the subject of con saderaGbon. and Prof. John Ward Stim- son led off by proposing a new plan of committee organization. It was his Idea that the working forces of the League should be divided into groups or committees along the lines of their professional training or special capa- city. Thus there should be a literary committee comprised of the authors, and committees representing the oth-. CT arts such as painting, architecture, music and the drama. There should also be a committee of those skilled in landscape gardening, road building, forestry, game preservation and scien- tiffc agriculture. Prof. Stimson emu merated twelve of these groups and said that among their other activities each night undertake to arrange one public entertainment yearly, thereby
 
 year. It was his belief that under the system he advocated the League'sH intellectual and technical resources could be utilized to the best advan- tage.
 The plan found some support but did not command general assent At torney Shaw said that while it was theoretically an ideal plan he feared that. it would be one inpracticab1e as a working system. More confidence would be felt in it had it's practical working merits ever been demon strated. In his opinion it would be better for the League to proceed af- ter the well tried and successful methods of village improvement so- cieties There was plenty of work to field of endeavor the varied talent the League was so fortunate as to possess could find full scope for useful effort. The discussion proceeded along the two lines described, MT. Shaw's being the conservative and Prof. Stinson's was taken on the direct issue, dis position of the whole matter being made by the adoption of a motion au- thor1zins President Beard to appoint a Committee of five who should re- port to a future meeting recoTnmen- dations for a general policy or plan of action MT. Beard has since made tentative selection of the following named gentlemen the committee: ID. s. Sanford, John w. Stimson, pr. w c. DeIning, Michael A. Mikelsen and p. A Pinkney. c. H. Plump l secretary of the League, will act as the committees secretary.
 Taking into account the fact that under the system adopted by vote of the last town meeting none of the taxes collected on the last grand list figure in the financial exhibit to be l made in f17a forfhoominrr aunua1 ro- port of the towns financial showing | for the past year is not such bad one. Last year the receipts included | upwards of S7,O0O in newly collected taxes and there was a balance in the treasury of SS,94O at the close of the l fiscal year. During the past year the i selectmen borrowed $3.5OO and paid k2,10O of the indebtedness. The pres ent treasury balance Is $2,343. The | tax receipts comprised about $500 | collected by Attorney Shaw through pressure methods. Selectmen's orders eaIed for total disbursements of about | $13.500 and school expenditures were something over $7,O0O. Payments by the State. on account of the sch ooI | fund, anI allowances for tuition and f transportation expenses of High school pupils and the income from the Hill Academy fund made the net cost of | the schoo a little over $5,00O. Some of the items of general expenditure were: Interest, $1,O5S: State roads, 41469 of which the State repays three-fourths; town roads, S4,215; bridges and sluices, $1,573; paupers 89Ss; salaries, s1,2O2; county and State tax. s269.
 The principal outlay for bridges was for the construction of the new arch bridge across the Aspetuck river near the N. F. Hoggson place. This cost altogether S1.O5O, but private contri- buttons of s475 made the net cost to the town s575.
 Present indications are that the main pond in Pleasant Valley, the elimination of which was portended by plans of the Bridgeport Hydraulic Co.,, will be preserved. Agents of the company were in the valley last Sat-. H-day to see Stephen and B. P. San ford in relation to purchasing the former and other property rights re- quIred for the control they will ob- tain over the Aspetuck river and it's near surroundings and while no actual progress was made in that direction he visitors did say that it had beeRl .