The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-16
A LARGE ACREAGE
IN THREE TOWNS
TO HYDRAULIC GO.
Timber Reservation Feature of
Sale Made by Henry
Sanford, End.

Sanford, End.
Redding, March 15-Deeds have
been placed on record at the town
clerks office conveying to the Bridge
port Hydraulic Co., from Henry San
ford End, all the unimproved real es-
tate owned by the latter in the towns
OF Redding, Easton and Weston. There
are in all twenty-five parcels with a
total area of something over five hum
dred acres. A survey was recently
made of the territory to determine
how much of it was essential to the
water company's requirements, it be-
ing the idea Of Mr.. Sanford to retain
possession of the remainder. Suisse
Quently, however, he decided to let the
sale include the entire tract and the
transaction was wound up on that
basis few days ago. The consider
alton has not been made public, but
conjecture places the figure at not
far from $4,000. One condition Of
the sale is the reservation to the
grantor Of all the trees of timber
size standing on the land. Most of
the territory is wooded, but although
comparatively little of the growth has
attained saw mill size the total of
such mill yield several hundred thous-
and feet Of timber. The lumber OPP
erations will be carried out by George
8. Banks, who has just started one
mill on the job. Under the terms of
sale two years are allowed for the
removal Of the timber. 1t is the
policy Of the company to retain
IF 1ov
as is not to be submerged. the OBJ
ject being moisture conservation. A
feature of the transaction was the as
sumption by the purchaser of a $1O,-
900 mortgage which also covered the
valuable property on Redding Ridge
rece emily conveyed by Mr.. Sanford to
Arthur Anderson. That property is
therefore now free of incumbrance.
Most of the callers at the Ridge
store nowadays include in their chat
with John Muennfch, the proprietor,
something in a congratulatory way
about his prospective good fortune
as sharer in the millions due his
family from the Prussian monarchay.
While most of these references are
in a half jocose wen, Mr.. Muen11ich
is willing to credit them as expressive
OF good will AT the same time"
said he, ''it gets little wearing to the
nerves to have constantly dangled be-
fore you these golden visions when
you are trying to maintain an ultra
conservative mental attitude on the
subject. have heard the legal max
i'm about possession being nine points
of the law and observation teaches me
that when some one has had another
mans property a good while in his
grip the process of prying him loose
from it is usually protracted and ex-
pensive if possible of Accomplishment
at all.
This being the case when the de-
PENDANT holder Is a plain ordinary
citizen 1t is easy to see that the separa-
ton process becomes even more diff
ficuft when you are stacked up against
royalty. My father was plainly deter
mined that his children should be fed
on no delusive hopes about some day
gaining the conf1scated estate Of his
father for he never breathed to us
that such possibilities existed. An
oil portrait of our grandfather, the
Prussian marshal in uniform, hung in
the palor Of our home in Brooklyn,
and his identity was made known to
us. but nothing of the story about his
having been disgraced and despoiled of
his fortune. Instead of fostering in
us .the great expectations idea my
father strongly impressed us with the
idea that our future depended on our
own exertions. In this think he was
wise. The discovery Of the documents
which hold out prospects Of regaining
4. e. e. ,.S>+ L.
after his death and Of course this dis
covery entirely changes the situation.
Nevertheless the role of a builder OF
air castles or chaser of rainbows is one
I am bound to avoid"
At the meeting Of No. Fire Co. on
Monday evening an offer Of second
hand Ford to serve as a mount for one
Of the chemical engines was made, the
price being $225. It seemed to be the
sentiment OF those present, however,
that no kind Of an auto truck should
be obtained until quarters in which to
house it were first provided. Treasur-
er Muennich said that he had been
prospecting in this direction and
thought it possible that Jesse L. Sam
ford's tenement house near the Ridge
cemetery might be rented. the owner
Of the building having the matter I'M
der advisement. Opinions were ex-
pressed that the. proposed auto truck
should have a capacity Of two engines
or tanks, instead Of one. The entire
business went over to the next meet
ing. It wass voted that the deputy
chiefs submit written reports to each
regular meeting as to the condition Of
the apparatus. Chief Cunningham
was chosen secretary to act in the in
term before the annual election in
July.
A general discussion relative to the
trunk highway through this town and
the measures best calculated to bring
about it's early construction. occupied
the Mems club at their regular month
ly meeting, held last evening at the
residence of Charles o. Perry. That
the proposed new layout past Putnam
Park will be ordered by the legislature
was accepted as certainty. To press
for the prompt building OF the gaps
above and below the existing Ridge
section it was proposed to invoke the
influence Of the selectmen boards and
oranges Of Redding and Easton and
Of the chambers of commerce of
bridgeport and Danbury.