The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-06
Lively Discussion
 Features NeWt0Wn
 Borough Meeting
Water Go. and Officials Criti- cised For Failure of Supply In Recent Fire.
NEWIOWN
Real Estate Changes of, Note In the ToWn-SmaH Vote is. Registered.
Especial to the Farmer.)

f ough election took place yesterday morning from g to Il a. m. Thirty tba llots were cast out of an electorate 1 of 90 voters of which eight were l,blanks. As the personnel of the as sembIage prec1uded the possibility of ignorance, the election officers decid- 1 ed the eight were silent protests against the 22 who voted the sole tick l ct on the ballot, for the eight votes did not count in opposit ton. The old bor- ough board was thus unanimously re- elected for another year.
 But the borough business meeting which followed was not devoid of ex- fcitement Only one member of the Water company officers, Burgess A. T. Nettleton, was present and he had a strenuous time explaining the cul- pability of the water company or bor- lough officers for the failure of the water supply in the recent disastrous fire in the Morris block, which un necessarily destroyed $20,000 worth of property. The past assailants of the company were not the usual ob jectcrs Ito the water contract, but F.. E.. Ab-s bolt, one of the strongest supporters Eof the water company hitherto, was moved to attack the company officials declaring the Morris fire and it's out come should be acharact erfzed as Acrim :. fnally culpable. This aroused MT. NettIeton who yehemently resented
 
 company or borough officials might be culpabIy negligent but the other was too harsh a termn and asked MT. Ab-s bolt to withdraw it.
 SupeTintendent W. B. Glover, it was said, turned off one of the gates on the main and went off without telling anybody about it, so there was de- lay of three quar ters of an hour before the pressure vas restored on the day of the fire. The superintendent was not present but his friends would not let him be the sole scapegoat, and so came up for review before Mir. Abbott said he was sorry It was shown by other speakers that the hydrants as well as the mains on our streets were the sole property of the water company and the bor- o1gh paid sso year for effective ser vice at these hydrants in case of fire and the only reason the borough off, lcials and the officers of the water company were not criminally liable permitting loss of life at the fire. By this time everybody was wrought up | and all remedial measures and discus sion were ordered dropped by the 1Shaf1r man, sRev. James HNsGeorgen The meeting. then passed unaniuousIy a resolution requiring the borough clerk I to have printed 100 copies Of the char fer and amendments thereto under his seal and mall one copy to each taxpayer. s|.ss
 The laying of the borough tax was next in order. and the chaotic condi- | ton of the borough officials, reports as to probable income and outgo for next year were such that the meet ing voted to lay a two and three Ifenths mill tax same as last year and E let it go at that. notwith thstanding the grand levy of the town. shows an in crease in the taxable property of the town lying in the borough of some $SO,00o and the extra three mills might be left off with safety.
 The others vl1o attend the borough meetings are interested only in nlak- ling the Main street a. Great White Way while the other residents on the silent side streets must continue 1 to step from their door-sills into mud l up to their knees and grope their way lbys the lights of their lanterns. and l do without hydrants and water. But 1.-the tax collector meets them annual 1 1y just the same. while 15. Main street voters put 1t over on them year in l and year out, so lax is the sense of jscfvic duty among the great majority Iof' boroughites.
 REAL ESTATE CHANGES The handsome and. slightly mansion northerIy slope of Mile Hill and known las ~HilI Crest, '' was sold Monday te
 Walter Jones, a capitalist of Brooklyn I N. He will take possession imme-
 diately. and will personally superin- 3Etends the improvements he proposes te make on his property. It is under Istood the price received for the prop erty was more than the appr raisa, made in the probate court. Real Els ltate Agent A. W Reynolds negotiated sl the sale. F
 Mortimer Smith of Mount Pleasant I has purchased from Lauren B. Skid more a. 25 acre farm on the hills south of Sugar street, which he will use fol
 cornfeIds.
 NEWsY. ITEMS.
 MT. and Mrs. W. B. Glover and fam lily notored to Ridgefield Sunday and
 called on Miss Alice Benedict.
 The senior department of the Sandy Hook graded school is closed this
 week sor the annual spring vacation to perliit it's pupils to- assist at home in gardening and house cleaning. Mrs. John McAu1iffe and daughte el of Bridgeport who have been visiting MT. E. s. Lowell Queen street, return ed Monday night
 Messrs. H. M. Greenman. Harmon F. Peck and E. S. Lowell, with teams moving the debris from the Morris block ruins this week The stuf made good road filling for the town.
 Herbert Robinson has removed te the Clark tenement on Bethel road. l Miss Molly Reiser and MT Frank F. FinnelI of Bridgeport, were guests | this week of MT. and Mrs. James l Egan.
 It is rumored- that Trinity bells will peal out soon in joyous acclaim when the beloved rector will take unto him. self a wife from among Newtown's fair maidens.
 The twenty first May festival ibegar in Cincinnati and will continue | throughout the week. The British steamer Sahara, from 1 Rosario for Boston is reported to be I aground in the De La Plata River nea1