Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-10

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 Daytime-More About Trolley Fares, Mystic Road and Pawcatuck Patrol-
 man.
 At the special town meeting in Bor-
 ongh hall Monday evening, after the
 passage of the resolutions rattfytng the action of former meeting, which opposed the proposed increase Tn trolley fares, Benjamin H. Hewitt of the Mystic section said he was glad to see so many of his fellow towns men present, especially as the three matters to be considered were of inn portance, but the most important of
 them all was the protest against an a matter in which every man, woman and child in the town was interested. Previous to the last meeting MT. Hew- 1 itt said that he'had filed his personal objection to the increase with the in- that on the morning after the meeting he received communication that was mailed the day before, that his peti- ton had been granted and that the
 proposed schedule had been suspended 1 for 120 days. and that public hearing will be given before any increase in fares is made. MT. Hewitt said al- though there was some tnformality In the call, still the votes passed were legal. but he favored validating the | | matter. He said the town ought to 1 go into the contest carefully and with I skill in order to win.
 Groton Mass Meeting.
 Mir Hewitt said the town of Groton was alive to the situation, but was chary of a town meeting, as such I meetings are held in the daytime there. l It was feared that the employees of the | Plant estate and the Morton F. Plant ! fF~fnrnSfa xxynIIJd nQnk fha pnnaftn0 and vote the proposition down. Therefore, l Charles T. Crandall Is to call a mass meeting of the town of Groton, to be | held in Mystic, where the chances were
 better for the opposition of the pro posed increase in trolley fares. MT. Hewitt then invited the voters of I Stonington to attend that meeting. He
 said that if skilfully contested there | would be more success in the opposi- | tion, and there would be stop to the will teach the officials of the trolley company not to try to run the com- pany with the policy of "the public be damned" MT. Hewitt was the only
 speaker on the trolley subject.
 Cement Road Extension.
 | Before the passage of the vote ap- l propriating $7,000 for the extension of 1 terminal to the Mystic river bridge, l John F. Moves, member of the town 1 highway commission, explained the l proposition in detail based on com munications with State Highway Com l missioner Bennett The length of the proposed cement extension is 1890 feet and that the cost of construction would | be $10,000. Of this sum, the town would advance $7,000 and the trolley | company's share of the work would be
 $3,o0o. The trolley officials had been
 advised of the plan, so that they might 1 enter into the proposition if they de- | sired. If this present plan falls 1t ] will probably be from five to eight years before the work is done by the state, and that would mean a road IS half. | Allotment Uncertain.
 l Several communications from the state highway commissioner were read
 and commented upon by MT. Moves. 1 The work would be done under state gressed the town would pay S5 per cent. of the cost monthly. In this case l where the town advances the money and continues extension of work com of the cost. which is deducted from the allotment to the town that is to be made from the legislative appropria- ton of 1917. Should the appropriation for state aid work be $1,000,000, Ston- ington's allotment would be $6,000. \ l that the figures quoted provided for a | new road from curb to curb, letter from Commissioner Bennett of the lat est date specified plainly that the state
 would only build road IS feet in
 width and that the state would main tain 8 road IS feet wide
 l States Road Limit.
 Warden Cornelius Crandan said that l there was no doubt as to the intent of l the state commissioner when he wrote I that the state would only build and
 maintain a road IS feet wide. The l road from the present terminal of the new road to the drawbridge had an 1 average width of 40 feet, and therefore 1 the town would bear more than half the cost, from curb to curb, if the states part of the road would be only I IS feet in width.
 MT. Moves replied that in case the state constructs only an IS foot wide
 road. and the town the balance. the ! state will refund $6,000 to the town, provided the allotment from the next appropriation for state aid warrants the payment of that amount.
 There was some little commotion on l this point and Dr. Edwin R.. Whitford ] asked how wide a road was contem- plated in the plan under discussion. Curb to Curb Road. Mir. Moves answered, from curb to curb. and the total cost will be $1O,- coo. the towns proportion being $7,000 and the trolley company's $S,000. He added that the cost of maintenance of 1 a mile of cement road was about $50 a year and that the present cost of main- l tenance of the section of road to be rebuilt was about $500 a year.
 Roswell K. Burrows stated that even l if the town paid $7,0O0 for it's share nS the cost paying interest on the borrowed money, that there would be still a saving to the town of $350 over the present conditions
 Dr. James W. Weeks asked if the
 present cost of maintenance of the section of road in question was $500 year.
 MT. Moves said the amount was be- | wonderful night scenes are depicted as