New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
SeIeCImen Arrange for Building
Road in WcStWoOd Park.
SOCIALISTS TAKE ISSUE WITH CLERK
Will Furnish Work For Unemployed
-Bird-Sto Wedding-Socialists
Explain Why Rent For Town Hall
Was Not Paid-Bricfs.

- Complying with ordes issued by the
annual town meeting First Selectman
johnson is today making arrangements
for the construction of a highway in
Westwood Park and this morning he
announced that there is a slikelih God
that the work will be started next
week, weather conditions permitting.
MI. johnson wants the road built as
soon as possible and If there is not
TOO much frost in the ground he in
tends to have a start made on the job
next Monday.
While the selectmen in the budget
presented to town meeting estimated
that the road would cost about 81, 500,
IT IS believed that a passway suitable
4 Tor travel can be constructed at less
expense and it is unlikely that the Sc
lectmen will exceed $1,000 in their
disbursements for the work.
When the town voted in favor of
the road, the Westwood park repre-
sentat1ves declared that they were not
seeking a boulevard or any expensive
highway. They simply wanted q
means of entering and leaving the
district for teams and if the town
would provide some passable road
they would be satisfied.
The selectmen propose to do the
work as cheaply as possible but they
expect that there will be big inn
provement In condition of the pass
way when they have finished and they
expect the residents of the locality
affected by the change will be sat-
fled. Tile to be used In the construc
ton OF culverts for the new highway
has arrived and the weather is now
the only possible hindrance to begin
ming the job.
The highway project will provide
work for number of the unemployed
IN town. The selectmen plan to give
preference to men who have been out
of work during tn winter and those
families have depended on the town
for support. There are a number
who come under this classification
and they will be given an opportunity
to relieve the town of caring for their
wives and children at least while the
work is in progress.
Birthstone Wedding
Charles Frederick Bird of Hartford
and Miss Mildred Candid Stone Of
Maple street were united in maria ge
last evening at the rectory of the
Church of Our Saviour, Rev. r. H.
Burton officiating The couple was
attended by Miss Nina Stone a sister
of the bride, and Roger B. Freeman
the latter serving as best man. The
bride was given away by her father
Edward l.. Stone
The young people after their honey
moon will live in Hartford where Mr..
Bird is in business with his father.
Tell Why They Don't Pay.
The following communication con-
tributed by the local branch of the
socialistic party is evidently given as
an explanation for the failure of that.
organization to pay the bills charged
against it for the use of the town hall
for lectures held under it's auspices.
Editor of the New Britain Herald
From time to time, there has ap-
peared in your paper various state
ments, purporting to come from the
selectmen of Plainvifle, regarding the
use OF the town hall by the socialist
party lnasmuch as there are no
records or any of the old parties ever
paying for the use of the town hall.
and as 1t is customary for other towns
IN the state to give the free use of
the town hall without any discrimi
nation to any party that wants to use
1t, resolution to that effect was in
troduced at the last session of tho
annual town meeting and passed
without a single dissentive vote. AS
we understand this resolution has
been stricken from the minutes II
naturally follows that we would like
to know from what source the clerk
obtained his authority to do so. If
ING ,f lie lii L
is the use of calling town meetings.
and lawfully passing resolutions ONLY
to have them set aside by an appar-
emily invisible government? If we
have reached that point, the town
should adopt the commission form of
government where the rule of the
people is at an end. We recognize
the fact that the above mentioned
resolution is of little Importance. The
real reason being the other resolu-
ton instructing the board of select
men to take such steps as was nee
essary to the purchasing of the water
system from the Plainville Water Co.
which was also passed without any
objection. This is the real issue for
it is obvious that all transactions
passed at the same meeting In exact
ly the same manner, can be treated
alike.
Plainville Conn. March %. 1915.
SOCIALIST PARTY,
No. 100 Whiting ST.
Gets Rebate From Court.
Answering. an appeal for car fare
to New Britain, Justice A. H. Con-
dell this morning granted rebate of
" from an assessment of $40 (s10
ana costs) imposed } yesterday On
Ernest Mari for failing to have an