Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-20
DANIELSON

discuss the proposed advance in water rates and to take such action as may be necessary to get the matter before the Public Utilities Commission for consideration was underway Thurs day and an announcement of the meeting may be looked for within a day or two.
 Of special interest, relative to the proposed increase in rates, is the constantly growing impression that the rates is intended as an opening to discussion of the purchase of the water company's properties by the borough of Danielson. To any such move at the present time there will be marked opposition, for good and sufficient req sons. If the borough must buy. wise business heads say that such purchase should be deferred for at least five years. There are many good and valid reasons, it Is claimed, why the l borough should not purchase at this time, but chief among them is the very general one that this is a good | time to sell anything and a poor time 1 to. buy.
 As indicating the interest of the res idents of the West Side (East Brook l lyn) in the proposed advance ill rates 1 the following statement, prepared for 1 The Bulletin by q property owner and water user of that town, is of very much more than passing interest in i. the borough:
 '.The Crystal Water Co, has never been taxed either in the town 5t Brooklyn or in the Brooklyn Fire d:s- l triet.
 The assessors asked the Water Co. ] to put in a list or give them the earn ! ings in this town, they were willing ! to give them the number of feet of pipe, but no figures on earnings or 1 value. They met once with. the as sesscrs and said then they would end in list but never have.
 l The gross earnings in this town | are $10001.00, as near as can be as- i certained by a house to house can- 1 vass by the town assessors, as fol- l lows:
 Brooklyn Fire District, hydrant
 drants o No. 30. .$270 Public services ................ 731 s1Oo1
 Their income for the present year will be some higher than this as ad- dttional fixtures have been added in some places.
 '.The assessors have put the Water Co, in the towns list for the exact amount of the earnings last year, viz: $1001.
 "otier property owners are taxed OAA VdluS Ol juGkI pTOpSTty not on what they can rent or earn from
 The. tax rate in Brooklyn has nev- CT been above Is mills and in the Fire District never above 2 1-2 mills, SC that if the rates stay the same the Water Go. will pay in taxes about | $17.50 per year and if the proposed rates are increased they will receive $S33.67 additional income and their ex- penses over this side have never been very much. When mains are extended to new houses built on South street the owner has to guarantee for 1t years 10 per cent. on the cost price of extending said main"
 1 Thursday was day of significance to East Killingly,, for it brought back to that isolated community trolley ser vice with Providence and intermediate 7 points 10 the east. The first pas II senger car got through early in the
 morning. coming as far as what is known as the freight station, about 1,2o0 feet easterly of the passenger station. The car was the first seer in East Killingly for just two weeks for the big storm has blocked the line since that time and made operation of the cars impossible insofar a. reaching East Killingly has been con- cerned.
 The opening of the line, by tn, Rhode Island company, again furnish. es East Killingiy milk producers witt transportation of the daily supply tha goes into Providence from that sec. tion of the town.
 , The line from Danielson to Eas Killingly remains closed, as do al other trolley lines in this part of tn, state.
 There was general interest here il the narrow escape from death in tn Wednesday morning of Angus Parl of the Assawaga Wooien company o DayviI,e. D. P. Warwick, who wa with MT. Park at the Lorraine, form erly known as the Newman hotel, wa known in Danie1son, where he was al occasional visitor during the summe months.
 You'n see. Douglas Fairbanks at hi best at the Orpheun theatre when hi latest production, When The Cloud ! Roll By. is shown there on Monde, and Tuesday of next week. This grea ]. 1. picture gives opportunity for tn ! fullest display. of MT. Fairbanks ath : let-c ability.-sdv.
 Deputy Sheriff Charles E. Aye
 brought down from his home villag of DsIviile for lodgment in the DO
 lice station a man who will be charg
 ed with having. been intoxicated whe
 he is brought before the town cour
 4 Jakey jag led the arrested ma
 into smashing out a window in tn
 gatehouse at the Main street cressin
 in Dayville when admission to tn
 building was refused him.
 State Policeman Robert Bridqema
 was here Thursday and gave his of
 ficial- approval to the opening of tn
 Majestic theatre in the Phoenix blocl
 which has been fitted up in accordanc
 with state laws governing the ar
 r4ngenent of theatres where motto
 pictures are to be shown.
 Letter carriers had Q hard time of
 Thursday trudging about through tn
 slush, which presented about as dii
 ficut travelling, conditions as thes { faithful servance of the public hay
 had to face during a winter that ha
 been exceptionally trying.
 School Supervisor Horace Turne !. feels that he must have been regarde
 much the same as would a messengt from Mars when he appeared on snow
 shoes. in outlying districts of the tow
 making his way to the Tucker an f schools in other districts.
 Have you joined the Canadian cIut
 This isn't any secret society nor " lone about which there has been muc
 publicity. It's the new organizatic
 of those who are going across the bol
 der during the coming summer to wis
 at the wet shrines of the Dominic
 and there seek solace from the restri'