Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-07

Lafayette Rudd, intimate friends be- fore and after, had a lively tilt at the recent meeting of the court of common council of the city of New London. MT. O'Leary is resident and property owner on Montauk avenue and Mir Rudd IS superintendent of a division of the Shore Line Electric Street Rail- way company. and is ever on the alert to guard the interests of the interests. MT. O'Leary is a practical believer in the city beautiful as the upkeep of his residence shows, and in addition he purchased a larger corner lot opposite that was used in part as a public dumping ground, filled it in and con- structed an up-to- date granolithic walk in keeping with that in front of his residence.
 The car barn is located in Montauk avenue and it is about the only place on the avenue that is without side walk. The conditions are so bad that pedestrians on that side of the street are very much inconvenienced. AS all the property owners on the avenue have built sidewalks he could not un- derstand why the electric road prop erty should be the exception.
 When MT. O'Leary called the condi- ton to the attention of the council and in addition told of the inconvenience to the public by the company blocking the walk with standing cars, going al- most to the limit of declaring the con- ditions equivalent to a public nuis- ance that should be abated, MT Rudd came to the rescue of the trolley com pany. He said that MT. O'Leary had erected a $12,0O house on a fifteen cent lot. built a. granolithic walk and expected the trolley company to do the impractical. To build a granolithic walk between the tracks leading to the car barn would be the height of folly, as it's life would end before the laying of the walk finished r Rudd denied that the sidewalk, or rather the site of the sidewalk, was ever blocked by standing cars. MT. OLeary accused MT. Rudd of guard constituency in the Fifth ward and that when MT. Rudd said that the walk was not blocked by cars he ~sa talking through his hat. MT. OLeary declared that he said nothing UT gran 0lithic walk between the rails, but he knew that a walk or vitrified brick would be practical and serve the pur- pose so far as the public was con- cerned.
 After the court of common council adjourned and when the two friendly aldermen took a trolley trip homeWard, MT OLeary had the pleasure of calling the attention of MT. Rudd to a car that was blocking the walk in front of the car barn. The car was there but he said he could not see it. To which Mr. OLeary replied thus: Say, Rudd, I've heard you speak in praise of Shakes peare and I'll call your attention to one of his lines: None are so blind as those who will not see.'''
 The time was when the original premontery at WinthroP neck was a popular rendezvous, especially lu tte good old summer time and when beach resorts and trolley car accommoda- tions were unknown. On Sundays especially nearly everybody in the city made it a point to visit the place sense it was the public park of the city When the New London Northern Railroad company built the big pier, the head of which covered the Island of Rocks, the popularity of the place waned, for more than half of the great bank of earth was taken away and utilized as filling for the big pier. Since then Winthrop Neck ceased to be the recreation ground for the young the trysting place for lovers and the resting place for those who visited there for the purpose of rest. With the coming of that big pier the point became more of a. residential section and what was part of the pleasure ground became settled with substan- tial dw cling houses.
 Now work has been commenced on the big state pier which is almost parallel to the other big pier. The state has acquired nearly all the bal anee of the promontory and it is quite probable that the best of the huge bank Of gravel and stone. that portion that was left after the building of the now Central Vermont pier, will be used for the filling in part of the new state pier. This is a trifls coineidental and is a mark of sure progress, There was reference this week in a local newspaper to the big bank over on the neck where lovers delighted to spoon and so on, but the big bank referred to was only a part of the big bank that is here spoken of as g, reminder of the physical condition of %iHthreB's Neck half a ceHtuRy age.
 Between the two periods, and be- tween the location of the Central Yer mont and the state piers, was le- cated ship yard of considerable size where John Forsyth built big BaFges fer the Thames Tow Beat company, all traces of which have leRg since passed away. There are perhaps men living who can remember the big rope walk that was once operated on Winthrop's $ Point but that was so long ago. that the date thereof the depenent knoweth not.
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