The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-22

powerfully blame any city officials
 who help in that grab
 We are told that the Crane folks will give to fthe city a street extend ing from the present terminus of At
 1antic street at Iranistan avenue all
 the way to WaIdemere avenue. And
 further, the Crane Co. will work this i street. What generosity!
 How many folks know that the Crane Co., bought it's land from the heirs of/P. T. Barnum? How many folks know that a condition of that purchase was that the Crane Co. should hold itself ready at all times to join the BarnuHn heirs in extending Atlantic street? How many folks realize that the city is asked to give up a modern macadanaized street and that the bait held out is that Atlantic | street Gas extended) will be work ed?
 rTt looks to me as though we were a good deal in the position of the~ dog who had a good bone and lost it be- cause he tried to grab at it's reflection | in the water. Let's not lose South avente by grabbing at it's pretty poor efection-At1antic street extension
 South avenue should be kept by the city because it is necessary to the proper development of the park sys- tenn, for one thing. It is a broad direct route to the Barnum dyke
 which leads direct to the bathing houses at Seaside park. It is the 1 ideal route for jitneys to take to reach those bathing-houses. That means it. is the peoples route for it is the people Who are served by, the jitneys | and it is the people who enjoy the l bathing at Seaside.
 '.It is to the peop1e'se interest, too | to keep jitneys from using the other avenues of Seaside park They would soon tear the roads to pieces and while doing that they would en- danger the lives of the children who make the park a playground.
 s'But South avenue'se importance is l even greater than this. It is a vital l link in connecting the center of the 1 city with the projected splendid ex- 1 tension of Seaside park. In the not
 Island will be a, part of Seaside park When that day Comes, South avenue will be direct route for jitneys and
 other vehicles all the way from Main
 street to the Island.
 '"The day is coming, too, when the people of the West End will want to reach Seaside without coming as far
 back as Iranistan avenue. A bridge | from the foot of Howard avenue to l the junction of South avenue and the Barn11n dyke will be the direct route. l The wide-awake aldermen from the
 Third district must foresee this for note that they are not favoring the 1 Crane Co.'S grab.
 i ''There is still another bridge that South avenue will be the direct route
 to. That is the bridge that will be
 built within>a a comparatively few years
 from Fayerweather's Island to the Black Rock shore where F'ancher's s | dock is now located.
 ftAlI these plans are bound to be | worked out to the enlarging of Seaside
 park for the improvement of this l peoples playground Why should l there be one moment of hesitation on | the part of any member of the park
 board or of the board of aldermen. Are the streets for the people or for any corporation with courage enough to ask them? Are they laid out, and
 worked and macadamizeds and paved 1 just too be given up because some
 factory wants to use them. Or are | they avenues of communication to be used alike by manufacturer and work