The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-24
TWO DEALS OF
 THE CITY BEAUTIFU

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 T~H1s IS AN age of progress and invention A There many useful and beautlful things which every family would desire to own The HOME BEAUTIFUL is as Slmportant, ana more important than the CITY BEAUTIFUL.
 The ordinary family is strictly limited Tn what it can expend to be up-to date, and artlstle Most families can own some nice and desirable things; things useful as well as things lux1lr- iots Comparatively few families can own EVERYTHING that is useful, or beautiful, or both.
 It is not different with city, The city is an aggregation of all the people. There are some things each home acquires for itself There are other things which al homes combine. to buy in common.
 The expenditures of a city should bear some relation to the expenditures of all the homes that make up the city
 A city which is composed mainly of rich and handsome homes, can afford things which a city made up principally of the homes of peo- pie of moderate income cannot afford to own
 Frequently difference of opinion will arise among the members of the same house. hold, to what improvement or luxury should be added to the home, and the members of the family will plead variolIsly for an automobile, q new heating apparatus, a player piano, to have the dwelling painted or vice versa.
 The younger and more inexperienced mem bers of the family may be arrayed in favor of using the surplus family income to acquire.
 
 more frequently be found upon the side of some necessary thing
 The same condition exists in a city, which! contains families of varying degrees of wealth and certain kinds of property that is not taxed in the same degree as other property.
 The wealthier families, those who are Iav- ish in their own expenditure who seldom feel the pinch of want, who have plenty of money and who are accustomed to 1uxuries will often be- found, when civic expenditures are consid- in the single household. They will favor lavish ex- penditure, and luxurious things over NEGEs- SARY things.
 The palmer families, those Of less income, who have to make each dollar of the family in come go as far as it will, and whose all per- haps, is embraced in the dwelling with it's fur nift1re, will usually favor moderate expendi- lures. and the acquirement of things which will HELP THE PEOPLE TO LIVE BETTER AND CHEAPER
 Thus, upon one side there will be d de- mand for beautiful and costly buildings, expenr siTh boulevards ma gnificent monuments, and tha very latest fads, whatever they may be.
 Upon the other side there will be demanded expenditure for municipal ice plants, or invest ments to build water gas or electric isght plants of the home.
 But neither of these groups in the munich pal family will usually favor buying everything in the same year. Nobody ordinarily would ueSlfS d1l the or L1 auS6I LII things to be purchased at one time.
 But Mayor Wilson, and the interests who stand behind Mayor Wilson, have for more than two years advocated in Bridgeport the purchase of all sorts of luxu1ies, everyone of which would be very nice to own. The trouble with these propositions has been that there have been too many of them that they have been too costly, and that the families of Bridgeport cannot afford to spend much for them
 Also fl is true that the majority of Bridge port families would prefer-if the city is to go into debt for $i0,O00, ,O0O-to do it for things which would be useful rather than for things which would be ornamental.
 Mayor Wilson recently proposed asbond is sue to build boulevard to Black Rock which would be a nice thing to do. It would be a spIen- did addition to the eity's drives, and there is not automobiles, or horse in town who would not enjoy a drive along the water front over spacious roads
 On the other hand the peopIe-who have voted down the Black Rock Boulevard for years have voted for the construction Of an ice plant which would not be beautiful, but whicI would be USEFUL, and would make the mones of every family in Bridgeport go further thar 1t does now.
 There are few in Bridgeport who woule not like to see a Boulevard run from Seaside Park to the handsome and costly summer homes at Black Rock. But there are few peo pie in Bridgeport who would be willing to ac qiire such luxury before acquiring ic.