The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-05
CUTS AND INCREASES BY THE RELIEF BOARD
Net Reduction Thereby of Red- ding'S Grand List Less
 Than $1,5OO.
nery Bros. Store Much Less Than Reported = UnWonted Activity at Gilbert X Bennett Shops.

SnODS.
 Bedding, March 5-The total of re- ductions granted by the Board of Re lief is $2,345, of which amount all was to resident property owners except $20O. As compared with hast year the assessors made additions in the case | of 59 residents and 19 non-resfd ents, the former amounting to $23,8S5 and the latter to $8,104 Twenty-three of the residents appeared before the re- lief board with appeals for reductions 1 and ten of these applications were the subject of favorable action although in no instance was the reduction all lowed much the addition inn posed by the assessors Perhaps more of the non-residents would have sought relief had they been informed of the increases. but as the present law does not require them to submit a list of their property they were not
 notified of the raises. The non-resi- dent who obtained a reduction of $20O is Mrs J. Arthur Sherwood of EaS- ton, owner of the property used as a telephone exchange. It was listed at $1,90O, an increase of $20O from last year whereas the much larger houses and more extensive farm buildings of Mrs. Mary Osborn close by was ens tered at the same figure. To the re- lief board the disparity seemed too pronounced to be overlooked. As a partial offset to the reductions the board revised some of the lists up ward by the inclusion of pianos which
 had been omitted, the gain from this source being $7O0. One increase was made on. real estate, this being $500 on the property of Miss Nellie Bar tram Tn detail the reductions were as follows: Patrick Green estate, $200; Mrs M. L.. Jones' $175; Christian Loveley, $90: Mrs. Lyon. $500; Ptilo Lyon, $400 divided equally between
 buildings and hand; Katherine Dudley. $10O; Ella A. Read, $2SO; George A. Sanford estate, $100; Jesse L. Sanford. $100; Albert Williams. s4o0. The members of the board are W. c. San ford, Robert Rider and Marshall D. Sanford and they are to be credited with having done their work carefully and conscienti iously.
 Considering the violence of Sunday s storm and the attendant freshet sur prisingly little damage was done in
 caused by the flooding of the lower l part of the Connery Bros. store in Georgetown The loss there was not l $5,000 as has been published, butt only from $500 to $500. The flooding re- l suited from the overflow of an adja- cent brook and the def1ection by a l snow bank of the surface current l against the rear of the store building. I The loss would have been much great CT but for the early discovery of the I incoming rush of water by one of the l clerks who went to the store at the | request of a man who wanted a pair I of rubber boots. With the help of l others they shovelled up a snow bar 1 rier that served to arrest the inflow The water had then poured freely into I the cellar and attained depth on the first floor reaching nearly to the elves. Although the streams
 throughout the town rose to record I height the ice in the ponds did not l break up. Had dit done so destruction of bridge would doubtless have re
 suited. The road through the Glen was made impossible by an overflow
 Of water and deposit of, ice cakes 1frorn the Saugatuck river. Much. o1
 the roadway over Sunset Hill was 3
 foot under water owing to the clog ging of the big iron pipes which serve
 as drainage conduitS.
 Accompanied by Secretary Plump od
 the Protective League A. F. Brincker-
 hoff appeared before the Town Schoo
 committee last Friday with plans fou
 beaItifyingE the ground of the foun I.public schools. MT. Brinckerhon, who is a landscape architect and has his
 summer home at the former Johr ) Koltz place on the west side, had talk , en the trouble to visit each of the | posed improvements which provide walks and the planting of shrubbery trees and flowers. He said the cos : would be trifling as most of the worl 3 could be done Joy the pupils Int
 committee were appr e0iative of his eff
 forts and found only one draJwbacl to full endorsement of the scheme 2 this objection being the planners fail } ufe to reserve enough open space fol 3 ball playing. They felt that it woul6 never do to curtai1 the facilities fol the education Of the rising generation in the great American game. The 7 plans are to be amended so as to rna.k' due provision in this respect and wdl then be adopted.
 What course to pursue in regard t.
 those who have failed to pay thei
 personal tax was discussed at lengtl
 by the seaectmen at their meeting ol
 Saturday. Several have infornall.
 asked for abatement of the tax b.
 reason of inability to pay and whil
 these applications were not grante'
 the board is in favor of granting
 reasonable extension of time In tn
 case of two or three Georgetown resi- |, ] dents who have proclaimed an 1nten tfon of not paying Collector Duncal
 was instructed to take sumInaG-
 measures, which means arrest ant prosecuti on in the event of continues i, refusal. Like action was decided up 2 on in the case OF tWo GeoA Soeo"l
 parties who had failed to renew thef
 pool table licenses unless they padt
 the tax due within a week
 , Here is more gall and bitterness fo former Congressman B. J. Hill. Tn premises of the Gilbert & Bennett Co
 in Georgetown was one of the place , where, in the fall of 1912, he deliver ed a. scare speech in which the em pIoyed were warned that in the even of Democratic success and a 1owerei
 l taT-iff a. ruinous blight would fall ol
 l their particular industry and upon tn
 | country's industries generally. In tn
 l case of the Gilbert &. Bennett shop