The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-27
Bedding Citizens
 Suggest A Committee
Name It After Approving Su-
 pervisor System For Town Roads.
Special to The Farmer.)

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 Bedding, Sept 27.-Some twenty rep resentative citizens met on Thursday evening by invitation of Commodore Luttgen at his residence on Sunset HIH to consider questions of public Welfare and more particularly the road question All who gave n+aex ps9esston to the personnel of the committee who'll the continuance of the. supervision sys- tenn which had it's first work out To- ca1fy during ten months of the past year. Not one advocated a return to either of the old methods-that of the repairing of the roads by the select men or the letting out of the work by contract. The only decisive action taken by the meeting was the norni- nation of a committee of five who should be empowered to hire a, road supervisor for the coming year. This action was wholly advisory in it's ma ture as the town meeting alone has authority to decide what method of caring for the roads shall be pursued next year and in case it decides for supervisor will also determine the method of his appointment If such an appointment Is decided upon by the town meeting the making of it will doubtless be delegated to a special committee chosen by ballot as was done last year.
 With these conditions fully under stood the conference concluded that a
 
 and chose as it's members C. H. Plump, William B. Claff1in Sanford H. Os- born, J. B. Sanford and E. A. Pink ney It may be the mood of the town meeting to have larger or a smaller committee and to accept or reject the recommendation of the conference as to the personnel of he committee who'll ly or in part
 The sentiment of the conference was that the results of the past years ex- pertinent marked distinct advance and that a return to the old ways would. be most unfortunate for the town. There was also expressed a be- lief that this view Of the situation was that of the public in general. Through what had been accomplished under Supervisor Bloomer's direction the roads, considered as a whole, were in better shape than they had been in years MT. Pinkney said that the Georgetown section had been compar- ative1y neglected and the upper west side section unduly favored, but this was a detail which constituted no real argument against the superiority of the supervisor system, and he was heartily in favor of it's continuance because a summing up showed a gen era1 improvement.
 Se1ectman Zalmon Reed thought that better results would be reached by more cooperation between the super visor and the seIectmen and mentioned instance in which, had he been con- suited, he could have aided MT. Bloom CT with information as to where ground could have been conveniently had for a certain job. Every one coin cided with this idea and no one sug- gested that cooperation requires at least two, whereas the outgoing board of selectmen assumed at the start a hostile attitude towards the present supervisor and kept up the attitude until persuaded to a, different policy by the disapprovaI of the original policy voiced at the special town meeting last spring. It is quite difficult for one party to cooperate when the other party persists in sIapping the party of the first part in the face.
 In the general discussion at the con- ference Comm odore Luttgen, speaking from the knowledge he had acquired during his two years term as town treasurer, said that there were oppor- tunities for Improvement in the de- tails of the towns business methods l He had special reference to the vouch- | CTS required by the se1ectmen, those vouchers being often faulty because 1 incomplete. For example, in the mat | ter of road work, there would be a | lump charge for team and men and 1