The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-15
HUDSON TERRACE.

hay was just about ready to be cut and will prove quite a. loss to the own CTS.
 HUDSON TERRACE
 stratford, Conn.,. July 18th, 1913.
 Editor of The Farmer. sir:-All aboard for Judson Terrace. No need for surprise no ground for suspicious, while yet in the crude, it exists and it remains to be seen whether it's life be long or short, as decided by the taxpayers of this town.
 Few here, know of Judson Terrace, and it is well they should acquaint themselves for if the present pur- poses. as aided and abetted by these very taxpayers in recent town meet ing carry, it -Q be at material cost to the conn., -nity, outlay in establishing one of the most Nidiotic conceptions of any individual or class of them in any community.
 Judson terrace, as proposed, is a pla- teau surmounting the bluff that ter inmates the proposed road through the Booth-Hill properties, in Putney- This bluff is about 15O feet from the trol- ley tracks the purpose for which the roads comes to any life being to con meet trolley with the main road, that is ashort cut for pedestrians. Through a section of land, most of it ledge rocks with an open trench for drain, with sewer for the accommodation of
  with a forest of scrub oaks, pines and weeds at the lower end, with a grade of eight per cent. some of our repre- senta tive property owners as well as a compliment of summer residents and school children, conceived the purpose for. building such a thoroughfare and signed an extensive petition for such ends.
 If it had been engineered by rep resentation of taxpayers from the western or southern section of town and presented for consideration, there would have been instantaneous clamor for s'polfce' and the states attorney, doubtless would have unbended enough to implore the probate court. Judge Peck. for a commission to inquire in to the sanity of these applicants. How wise or appropos such action would have been need not be divulged at this time but that the petitioners would be given leave to withdraw, with explo- sive ha. has, ad lib, is a certainty
 Facts, the woods are full of them and all one has to do is really to strike the trail through either the Booth or Hill properties toward Jud- son terrace to conclude that for win ter use, for a toboggan, yes. for any earthly service avenue for the public. never, winter or summer Expert opinion on the cost of con str11ction, and in that particular we 
 plans for serviceab1e and properly made highway, 50 feet wide, fn his plans has put the cost at not less than $14,ooo nor more than $16,OOO There is an eight per cent. grade to contend with, assuming that the Jud- son terrace is to be eliminated, rocks that would compare in condition With the !nvariable finds on Manhattan Isl and in excavations, sewers to be con sidered as existing and not to be el1n- ated. property damages, cost Of 1n- functions and Allegations.
 The purpose of this disclosure. is not f,Irthering the ends of any one indi- vidua1. any resident of Putney as against the taxpayer but rather to make plain if possible to the hundreds that do not know of the conditions or inc situation what they have been called upon to stand for and what if is proposed to extract from the pockets of the taxpayers for as wild 8 wildcat scheme in road construction as was ever worked.
 Needs for some public conVen1eEces to and from the trolley? Let that De granted; next where to meet the re- ouirements Through disputed private property, over farm land. sewer ways and ditches. through wildwood and scrub and after grades and rocks to a precipice for cost of retaining wallss of steps, wood or cement? Not at all economic or wise, not at all.
 4 telescope or guide is not needed to discover two very logical as we'll as inexpensive ways compared with